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

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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

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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,

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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

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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,”

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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

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Are you one of the 73 million developers who build, ship, and maintain their software on GitHub? Most tech companies now use it in their workflows. In this blog, I’ll

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