Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances are virtual servers used for running applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS). EC2 instances may be billed on a per-hour or per-second basis: AWS provides several ways to reduce EC2 costs, including a free tier, reserved instances, spot instances, and saving plans.

Monitoring your infrastructure is crucial for your applications, workloads and business as a whole. As a company, VirtualMetric believes that our solutions need to constantly evolve and follow your needs. Now we are happy to present the latest addition to your monitoring suite – Red Hat Virtualization Monitoring. Get advantage of agentless RHEV monitoring and tracking for your Red Hat virtual infrastructures.

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter. We knew adding the year on the end of each title was a good idea! One full year where the Ubuntu Robotics team have been documenting their work, showcasing projects in ROS and discussing interesting things going on in the community. And my, what a year it has been. To mark the occasion, we’d love to hear and write about any work you’ve done in robotics or ROS over the last year.

Moving to the cloud? Containers top the chart when it comes to application modernization while shifting from legacy to cloud. To support the claim, statistics from Gartner do talk in similar numbers, and it’s interesting to know that containers additionally bring down OpEx and boosts productivity. Gartner predicts that by 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, up from less than 30% today.

Admit it, you’ve got them: legacy .NET applications in production supporting the business. How many times have you been asked the hard question of how you’re going to run those apps in the cloud?

ManageEngine is conducting a virtual seminar this November, on how your employees can overcome IT Ops management issues in a dual workforce environment. Attend the seminar to identify, address and solve IT Ops management issues, when your workforce is scattered across office and remote locations.

Grafana is probably the most popular visualization software and a Hosted Grafana is provided by MetricFire. Every day, our users have to perform certain actions and most of them are repetitive. For example, you might want to automatically create a bunch of different folders with dashboards in them. This tutorial will show you how to do that with Terraform, which is very popular in the DevOps circles, and how to go even further by using the client library yourself to automate more.