AWS Extends Generative AI Reach to Third-Party IT Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has extended the reach of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform for application development to include a set of plug-in extensions, that make it possible to launch natural language queries against data residing in platforms from Datadog and Wiz.
AWS Cloud Migration Strategy
Migrating your project means moving your data from the on-premises data center to the cloud. Migration is a big task and AWS facilitates migration in phases.
AWS Closes Selection of Cloud Code Tools for New Customers
New AWS customers will no longer be able to sign up for AWS Cloud9 (a cloud-based Integrated Development Environment) and the AWS CodeCommit private Git repository service.
AWS Previews Generative AI Tool for CloudTrail Activity Logs
AWS today previewed a GenAI tool for its AWS CloudTrail data lake and is focusing most of its cybersecurity efforts on a new generation of cloud infrastructure that is inherently more secure.
Survey Credits Engineering Teams With Keeping Lid on Cloud Costs
A CloudZero survey credits engineering teams with keeping cloud costs under control, but there’s still some room for improvement. A survey of 1,000 U.S. engineering and finance professionals working in organizations with 100 to 9,999 employees, that spent at least $500,000 annually on cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or […]
Tools for Sustainability in Cloud Computing
You’re probably sold on the environmental benefits of moving to the cloud. These tools can help you get there faster by measuring your applications’ carbon emissions.
Running MongoDB on AWS: A Practical Guide
Many organizations are opting to run MongoDB in the AWS cloud to gain improved scalability and reliability for their MongoDB deployment.
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
In this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability.
Bitrise Tightens Mobile DevOps Integration With AWS Cloud Services
Bitrise tightens integration between its DevOps platform for mobile apps and the app development services provided by AWS cloud.
MongoDB Allies With AWS to Generate Code Using Generative AI
MongoDB and AWS extended their existing alliance to provide examples of curated code to train the Amazon CodeWhisperer generative AI tool.
How to use Argo CD to Configure Kubernetes Monitoring in Grafana Cloud
Since Kubernetes Monitoring launched in Grafana Cloud last year, we have introduced highly customizable dashboards and powerful analytics features. We’ve also focused on how to make monitoring and managing resource utilization within your fleet easier and more efficient. But what’s an easy way to add resources to your cluster while using Kubernetes Monitoring? ArgoCD has become the established tool for implementing GitOps […]
Complete Guide to AWS Savings Plans
Monitoring and managing your AWS Savings Plans, as part of your overall cloud operations strategy, can help optimize your cloud computing costs.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles and How to use Them
Amazon Web Services relies on the AWS IAM service to govern who is authenticated and authorized to use AWS resources. It plays a hugely significant role in AWS security–and so do its various identities. Let’s look in more detail at IAM roles and how they work. What is the Purpose of IAM? When you create […]
AWS Converts Cedar Policy-as-Code Tool to Open Source Project
At the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove an IT environment is secure, available as an open source project. In addition, AWS launched SnapChange, an open source fuzz testing tool that […]
Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry
In this week’s #TheLongView: A new Linux kernel drops and layoffs at Amazon Web Services point to trouble.
AWS Delivers on Latest Graviton3 Price/Performance Promise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the number of virtual machines based on the latest generation of its Graviton processors to include instances that support DDR-5 memory. The latest Amazon EC2 instance types, dubbed M7g and R7g, that are now generally available are based on the AWS Graviton3 processors developed using an architecture created by […]
Report Affirms Continued AWS Cloud Dominance
A report published this week by Wiz, a provider of a cloud security platform, found more than half of organizations (57%) are using multiple clouds, with 22% currently using three or more platforms. However, the report also noted that 72% of all workloads are running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Among organizations that […]
Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
In this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas.
Best of 2022: Three Cloud Trends to Watch in 2022
As we close out 2022, we at devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the latest in our series of the Best of 2022. Many developers and startups view cloud services as simply “compute”, “storage” and “networking.” The cloud has matured to the point where customers often don’t think […]
AWS Saves Ukraine’s Data | WPF ‘is not Dead’ (yet) | Devs Quit for Cash
In this week’s The Long View: Amazon S3 is keeping Ukraine’s data safe, we ask if Windows Presentation Foundation is dead, and developers tell us why they switch jobs.
Migration to AWS Cloud: Do’s and Don’ts
What if one day, you were told to migrate to AWS/GCP/Azure/any other cloud provider? It would likely introduce some stress, to understate the case, right? I’ve seen quite a few migrations in my career and, in this article, I would like to share some thoughts to help DevOps engineers, architects, managers or anyone else who […]
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
AWS Makes Economic Case for Graviton Processors
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making available in preview a C7gn instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) based on AWS Graviton processors. The C7gn instances provide up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and as much as 50% higher packet-processing performance compared to previous-generation C6gn instances. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, […]