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Even before any contracts get signed or budgets sketched out, every new project has to start with a plan. To cope with the nuts and bolts of a large project, leaders need to have a comprehensive and well-thought-through project management plan in hand.

To allocate costs or maximize savings? That’s the question many AWS customers will have to answer when formulating their FinOps strategy relating to Savings Plans. If part of your daily routine is finding ways to cut cloud costs, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. Appropriate chargeback reporting is an undeniable necessity for any business, but in this world of uncontrolled rising cloud costs, so is capitalizing on any savings opportunities!

The Ivanti Workspace Control 2020 release that occurred in August included Ivanti Neurons for Edge Intelligence, an innovative new feature which enables administrators to query endpoints and get real-time intelligence from across the enterprise in seconds. A function that works regardless of whether endpoints are on or off the corporate network. An essential feature considering the number of employees working from home.

So, why would you deliberately try to break your services? Chaos engineering does just that – deliberately terminating instances in your production environment. Online video streaming service Netflix was one of the first organizations to popularize the concept with their Chaos Monkey engine.

In 2020, enterprises have meaningfully accelerated their digital transformation. The global financial advisory firm KPMG, notes that “For a majority of U.S. CEOs, the pandemic has meant an acceleration in digital transformation by months or even years. The move to digitization has accelerated, and the benefits will be permanent. There is no going back.” Software vendors are seeing this very clearly too.

Today, we launched a new and improved version of Dashbird’s main screen – a single pane of glass, designed to give you an overview of the most important events and metrics across your serverless environment. During the past year, we have invested heavily into building the next stages of our platform, expanding our offering to include services like API Gateway, SQS, DynamoDB, Step-Functions, ECS, and Kinesis, with many more coming in the next months.