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Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed AIOps service that uses machine learning (ML) to quickly identify when applications are behaving outside of their normal operating patterns while generating insights into their findings.

When creating a new application or integrating an existing one into a new environment, properly implementing user authentication and authorisation requires a significant amount of work.

Managing access to accounts and applications requires a balance between maintaining simple, convenient access and managing the risks associated with active user sessions.

With the advent of high-speed 5G networks, enterprises have sought to deliver low-latency experiences in the Industrial Internet of Things IoT (IIoT), media and entertainment, automotive and more.

Secrets Managers are great tools for securely storing confidential information and providing access to secret material to trusted individuals, applications, or systems. In different environments, you may have multiple Secrets Managers hosted by different vendors, which can increase the complexity of maintaining a consistent operating model for your entries.

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.