We recently explored what the cloud is and how it has evolved over 60 years. Yet, cloud computing emerged into what it is today in 2002, when Amazon, the e-commerce giant, sought a more efficient way to expand its online marketplace. So, it is not surprising that the company’s cloud services subsidiary (AWS), which launched in 2006, is the largest Cloud Service Provider (CSP) today. This CSP marketshare guide shares the details of the cloud infrastructure market, the dominant players, and more.

The trend continues to accelerate – even faster now. Cloud computing was already booming before 2020. But in the following two years, remote work flourished, and cloud adoption soared. Some companies have since returned to the office. Others are adopting hybrid models, where staff work from home and in the office. Yet there’s more to the rise and rise of cloud computing than remote working.

A decade after launching Reserved Instances (RIs), Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans as a more flexible alternative to RIs. AWS Savings Plans are not meant to replace Reserved Instances; they are complementary. SPs and RIs have some significant differences that make each better suited to specific uses. As an example, while Savings Plans are applicable to both EC2 and Fargate instances, RIs are only applicable to EC2 instances.

We all want growth, but we often find ourselves unequipped to deal with it. It’s a bit like going to the gym, lifting weights, and seeing real results, only to realize that you no longer fit into your old clothes. Now you have to decide if you want to modify them or buy new clothes. We can use this very simple analogy to understand the differences between horizontal and vertical scaling.

Successful DevOps implementation is critical for enhancing the efficiency, reliability, and quality of software development and delivery. To evaluate the effectiveness of DevOps practices, various metrics can be used. Below is a detailed overview of key metrics.

DevOps is crucial for growing organizations, enhancing collaboration between development and operations teams to expedite deployment cycles and improve overall efficiency. Selecting the right DevOps engineer for your team, especially when new to DevOps, is vital. A poor hiring decision can significantly impact your organization, resulting in higher costs, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities.

Jul 17, 2024: Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed PostgreSQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your PostgreSQL databases across private and public clouds. PostgreSQL is an open source database management system. It has been successfully used for more than 3 decades across all IT sectors. Its maturity and its vibrant community consistently make it a first-choice DBMS among developers.

Before the development of AWS cost estimation tools, users faced challenges in predicting cloud costs due to complex pricing structures and multiple service configurations. This often led to surprise charges and made budgeting and optimizing cloud costs difficult. To address these issues, AWS introduced its own cost estimation tools. These include the Cost Explorer, the Pricing Calculator, AWS Budgets, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Trusted Advisor, and the AWS Cost and Usage Report.