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AWS is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing program built to provide IT infrastructure for businesses, and the program has an active user base of roughly 1,000,000 customers. With the massive responsibility of providing services for such a large customer base, it’s important for their services to be reliable and trustworthy.

Open-source software (OSS) relational database management systems (RDBMSes) are becoming incredibly popular in the cloud computing world. In this article, I’ll discuss one of the most popular OSS relational databases, PostgreSQL, and the options you have for this database in the Microsoft Azure cloud. It’s worth noting these products are large with many detailed aspects, so consider this article a cursory, high-level overview of each offering.

Among the 200+ fully features services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the most popular. In the recent eG Innovations and DevOps Institute survey of 900+ IT professionals, cloud instances were the most commonly used cloud service, with 63% usage among respondents.

This is the second tutorial in a two-part series. You can also learn how to automate AWS Lambda function deployments to AWS CDK.

Cloud has become the de facto way to build infrastructure, meaning cloud providers end up in charge of a significant amount of the apps we use every day. From the likes of Netflix, Slack, Ring and Doordash running on AWS or PayPal, Twitter and HSBC on GCP, it's easy to see how impactful a failure of any type can be. Let's look at some of the issues that have happened recently that have led business to consider how dependent they are on a single provider.

Sustainable technology has become a hot topic in the tech world over the past few years. From the escalating environmental impact of heat and water-intensive activities like crypto mining and chip production to carbon taxes to sustainability becoming a pillar in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, there’s plenty of issues to talk about, but conversations become marked quieter when you shift to discussing solutions.

Serverless backends have different monitoring challenges when compared with traditional applications, mostly due to the distributed and proprietary nature of serverless. Making monitoring and debugging efficient for serverless requires a unique set of tools and techniques. In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges of debugging serverless backends and how to utilize third party tools to improve the monitoring process.