Incident management is the technique used by IT and DevOps teams when responding to any unplanned incident or interruption. An incident is any event that requires an immediate response from the operations team. Incident management intervenes to restore services to their operational state. Incident management is a necessity in today’s always-on competitive world. Why use […]
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According to respondents to CNCF’s Annual Survey 2021, 96% of organizations are either using or evaluating Kubernetes – a record high since their surveys began in 2016. The survey also indicated that Amazon EKS is the container orchestrator of choice on AWS, used by 50.6% of respondents (while only 30.8% of respondents are DIY Kubernetes […]
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Amazon Lightsail is a powerful, fully managed virtual private server (VPS). With an intuitive Management Console preconfigured with Linux and Windows Application Stacks, Amazon Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a web server using AWS. Amazon Lightsail user plans include everything you need to jumpstart your project: Amazon Virtual […]
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AWS Premier Consulting Partner Named to CRN MSP 500 2022 SUISUN CITY, Calif., March 10, 2022 – nClouds (www.nclouds.com), a provider of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DevOps consulting and implementation services, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, and leading Managed Service Provider (MSP), today announced that it has achieved AWS Solution Provider Partner (SPP) status. […]
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Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software tool for IT components that can help you improve operational excellence on AWS – a pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Zabbix helps you control your infrastructure by collecting any metric type from any metric source. Zabbix automatically provides its users with flexible, intelligent threshold definition options. With Zabbix, […]
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In 2012, SoundCloud engineers realized they had a problem. Their existing monitoring solutions were insufficient for their needs. Development teams need real-time, actionable monitoring data to improve Kubernetes deployment uptime, enhance system performance, and boost resource optimization. In other words, they needed a solution to handle the complexity and distributed nature of their cloud applications, […]
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From big organizations to mom and pop shops, everyone is moving to and is affected by the cloud, especially when disaster strikes causing downtime. Downtime is not an option for big organizations or for mom and pop shops. Whether it’s a ransomware attack, a power outage, flood or simply human mistakes, unpredictable events occur. The […]
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In this blog, I will discuss how to authenticate your database instance using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) database authentication. In keeping with AWS’s best practices of “shared responsibility,” the AWS IAM service is a “customer responsibility” layer of security for your data. Using AWS IAM with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) You […]
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Why container monitoring is critical for modern cloud environments Modern cloud application environments are complex, running across hundreds or even thousands of compute instances. Because of this complexity, modern applications require container monitoring to continuously collect metrics, track potential failures, and gather granular insights into container behavior. So, it’s not a question of whether or […]
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What are nested stacks in CloudFormation? Nested stacks are stacks created as part of other stacks. You create a nested stack within another stack by using the AWS::CloudFormation::Stack resource. As your infrastructure grows, common patterns can emerge in which you declare the same components in multiple templates. Reusing common template patterns using nested stacks is […]
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