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Introducing the new Amazon DevOps guru for RDS functionality: Proactive Insights. DevOps Guru for RDS is a fully managed machine learning (ML)-based service that uses data collected by RDS Performance Insights to detect and alert customers to unusual behaviour in Amazon Aurora databases.

When you operate on a variable spend model in the cloud, business growth can translate into a variable bill that reflects the activity of your workloads in your environment. For some customers, a monthly increase in their AWS bill is a normal part of growth, but for a significant proportion it is an undesirable outcome. Therefore, it is important to use the right metrics to assess the economics of your infrastructure.

Some web applications need to protect their authentication tokens or session IDs from cross-site scripting (XSS). It is an Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) best practice for session management to store secret information in the cookie store of browsers with the HttpOnly attribute enabled.

By now, I think we will have a permanent place on our blog for publications that deal with what's new on the Azure platform. In this kind of short summary, I have selected the most important ones that have an impact on the projects that are being implemented at Hosters.

As cloud deployments become more complex, organizations struggle to manage and identify a growing set of resources. Tags provide companies with metadata about their resources, which they can use to identify resources for cost allocation, operations, or data security.

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open source development platform for defining cloud infrastructure in familiar programming languages and making it available via AWS CloudFormation.

The following article covers best practices for managing and reversing technical debt through the prudent use and operation of cloud services.

Since the advent of big data more than a decade ago, Hadoop - an open-source platform for efficiently storing and processing large data sets - has played a key role in storing, analysing and reducing this data to provide value to businesses.

The Audit Guide for AWS PCI DSS Quick Start is a post dedicated to anyone who has supported a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) assessment as a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) or as a technical team, probably spending a lot of time collecting and analysing evidence on PCI DSS requirements. In this post, we will describe how to use automation to reduce the effort of manual and repetitive evidence collection.

Sight loss comes in many forms. For some it occurs from birth, for others it is slowly deteriorating over time, with multiple 'expiration dates': the day you can't see photos, recognise yourself or the faces of loved ones, or even read your mail

Today, millions of internet users access applications hosted around the world in 167,000 cities served by more than 74,000 autonomous systems (ASNs). Keeping track of constantly changing network routes can be a daunting task for site reliability engineers (SREs), application developers, network operators, systems engineers and cloud solution architects.

Are you curious about the news announced at AWS re:Invent 2022? Check out the summary of the most intriguing things that this year's AWS re:Invent has brought.