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Step by step guide on how to install Microsoft's System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

If you run Microsoft’s Hyper-V as your virtualisation platform rather than the ever popular VMware ESX then you probably want a way to manage your Hyper-V hosts as well as the virtual machines that reside on this. Well you can do a lot of the functions that SCVMM does with the free tool for managing Hyper-V, the Hyper-V Manager (which comes as part of the Windows Operating System). System Centre Virtual Machine Manager is also called System Centre VMM or SCVMM for short.

Webinar: Showcasing the Azure MP

Join Microsoft Product Manager, Neha Garg & Squared Up's Adam Kinniburgh as they showcase the Azure MP. The Azure MP enables you to monitor your Azure resources from SCOM. With this MP you can monitor Virtual Machines, Storage accounts, Application Insights and see relevant alerts in SCOM. With the upcoming release, Azure MP would allow you to select resources at the resource group level.

Serverless Summer School (SSS) Week Four: Intro to SES with Serverless

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails. This introductory course will teach you the basics of setting up a serverless SES while sharpening the skills you learned in the Wild Rydes workshop.

IaaS Resilience, which cloud platform is better? Azure or AWS?

Now this blog post is only going to cover the two largest cloud providers, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS and only focusing on Infrastructure as a Service (Azure VMs for Azure, and EC2 for AWS) offerings they both provide, but with a bit of a deep dive in to the way they both provide resilience.

AWS Cost Optimization: Top 5 AWS Cloud Cost Mistakes

What if we told you that most organizations are making simple AWS cost optimization mistakes that lead to surprising monthly cloud bills and unnecessary overspend? As an engineer, you’d probably be relieved to know that many of your organization’s AWS spending spikes are within your team’s control, given access to the right data.

How to Read, Search, and Analyze AWS CloudTrail Logs

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.

The Quest to Eradicate Lingering VPCs

Cost is a big reason many dev teams are transitioning to serverless. However, there are still some ways costs can creep up on you in serverless apps. The biggest culprit I’ve found in my own experience is the VPC resource. Because adding a VPC to a serverless stack is ridiculously easy in Stackery, I’ve sometimes gotten carried away. I’d deploy a stack with a VPC for testing, then quickly forget about it.