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No matter what’s driving your move to an AWS or Azure cloud, two things are true. One, you don’t want to under-provision, which could create performance and availability issues. And two, you don’t want to overpay, because no one ever wants to do that. One of the key decisions you must make is which Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure virtual machine instance configuration you need. It’s a scoping exercise, but several factors make this easier said than done.

Come April 23rd 2020, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be available. It will be the first LTS version of Ubuntu since the 18.04 release, and in this blog, I want to answer the common question, what is an LTS? For a deeper look at the benefits of using an Ubuntu LTS, there’s a whitepaper for that, for anything else, this post will answer your questions.

We constantly strive to empower developers. Part of that aim extends to making development easier, for example improving build tools and documentation. As an element of this continued effort, we would like to introduce the new gnome-3-34 snapcraft extension!

The use of Serverless execution models is expanding extremely rapidly and cloud providers are continuing to enhance their platforms. Per Flexera’s “State of the Cloud” report: Leading this trend for the last two years, Amazon has released a few features that address AWS Lambdas’ pain points and make them a more feasible choice for large scale deployments consisting of numerous applications.

We are happy to present the Serverless360 release update for Q1 of 2020. The first massive release for the Q1 in February 2020 included the most awaited Business Activity Monitoring along with dashboards for Logic App and Function App and few other useful enhancements. It is so encouraging to find Business Activity Monitoring meeting requirements of customers to attain end-to-end message visibility on their business workflow.

The Azure Functions team has yet again joined us for another monthly live webcast by staying remote and safe. In this live webcast, along with Jeff Hollan, Anirudh Garg and Sonia from Engineering team joined us to give a picture on the latest happenings in Azure Functions space. Without any further delay, let us jump in as there are tons of update are awaiting.

Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is the company’s managed option for Kubernetes clusters. We have several articles on using AWS and Kubernetes on our blog, and felt there was a need to highlight some of the key features that AWS EKS offers. Many of these features have been rolled out or updated over the last year. We have mentioned some of these features in other posts, such as our comparison of EKS with AKS and GKE.