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In this article we’ll introduce the AWS Cloud Development Kit and explore how it can boost the productivity of your development and infrastructure teams. Infrastructure-as-Code is fast emerging as a de-facto standard for development organizations.

In a recent post, we talked about AWS CloudTrail and saw how CloudTrail can capture histories of every API call made to any resource or service in an AWS account. These event logs can be invaluable for auditing, compliance, and governance. We also saw where CloudTrail logs are saved and how they are structured. Enabling a CloudTrail in your AWS account is only half the task.

In 2008, Netflix was struck by a disaster. A fast-growing global streaming service was well on its way to transform the entertainment industry when the management faced a problem exposed by a data center failure. Even though it was a single issue, it shut the entire service down, depriving the company of millions in profits and effectively ending the shipments of DVDs (they were still a thing in 2008).

In the first part of our AWS S3 series, we discussed what AWS S3 buckets are, the difference between S3 and EC2s, advantages of AWS S3 object storage, and AWS S3 API integration. In this next post, we’ll be covering AWS S3 Monitoring, including the importance of leveraging data and monitoring metrics, and how Sumo Logic provides insight into your infrastructure with S3 logs.

I am hugely proud of our new product, SquaredUp for Azure. As a dashboarding tool it goes well beyond anything in the market today, and I think this product can be transformative for DevOps and IT teams using Azure everywhere. In case that sounds like unjustified hype I want to describe in this blogpost why I believe this, mainly by letting the product speak for itself.

MAIDENHEAD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SquaredUp, an established UK software company and Microsoft partner with enterprise customers worldwide including Credit Suisse, KPMG and Nestle, today announces the launch of SquaredUp for Azure, the first 360° application dashboards for Microsoft Azure. SquaredUp for Azure solves the challenge of tool sprawl and spiralling cloud costs by offering real-time visibility of costs and performance, across every application, for every team and from every angle.

IT is pervasive in today’s setting. Businesses, governments, and individuals use IT products constantly for different purposes. In fact, it is forecast that the global spend would reach $5 trillion by the end of 2019. Most of the money streaming into the IT industry comes for corporations and government agencies. Households are also contributing to it, including home-based commercial ventures.

There’s no sure-fire way to tell whether or not serverless tech is going to grow or even be around next year. Every post-apocalyptic movie has thought me that technology is the first thing to go after a catastrophic event happens. And if that happens we’ll have to return to some ancient tech like ** knock on wood ** containers.