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Mitigate downtime risks with simplified blue/green deployments of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate Applications
Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate help customers modernize their applications and scale efficiently. DevOps teams rely on Blue/Green deployments to continuously release features without compromising reliability or customer experience. In this blog, Bhrikuty Aggarwal, Sr. Cloud Engineer at MontyCloud writes about how you can save up to 80% in time and effort setting up and…
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Q&A on Achieving CloudOps Excellence from the AWS CloudOps Day
On March 16, 2021, Maureen Donlin, Interim Director of Research from St.Louis University (SLU), showcased how they gained 30% in researcher productivity without adding headcount in our first AWS CloudOps Day Webinar. Maureen and her team at SLU enabled their researchers with self-service provisioning of complex High Performance Computing Applications and CloudOps excellence for their…
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Reducing Total Cost of Cloud Operations up to 70%
Teams driving successful digital transformations focus on driving down total cost of cloud operations starting with provisioning their first application. MontyCloud DAY2 enables cloud IT teams with real time security, compliance, governance and cost insights along with automated remediations, that help drive down the total cost of cloud operations by as much as 70%. For example, a large…
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Autonomous cloud security and compliance management – the foundation of a secure cloud
The pandemic has accelerated digital transformations unlike any single event in history. While cloud enables application developers with amazing possibilities and modern development tools, it is also a challenge to infrastructure administrators and CIOs. For IT teams, cloud security is a constant balancing act between control, cost, and agility.
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Simple steps you can take today to automate your cloud security remediations
Automating cloud security and compliance assessments can alert you faster. Then what? In this blog, Luke Walker – Principal Product Manager at MontyCloud shares how you can automate remediations. He also shares his list of Do’s and Don’ts, based on his years of experience working with customers. – Sabrinath S. Rao Cloud security is like…
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Why and how to set up automated Disaster Recovery for your cloud infrastructure
The common misconception is that cloud applications are disaster proof. Several high-profile downtime events have proven otherwise. The reasons for downtime can range from misconfigurations to noisy neighbors. Planning and frequently testing disaster recovery plans can be complex. In this blog, Bhargava K, Cloud Solutions Engineer at MontyCloud writes how a Fortune 200 ISV, automated and simplified cross-region disaster recovery…
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Cloud Visibility: The unknown unknown – the great equalizer in cloud security!
Cloud security is a moving target because cloud infrastructure is dynamic by nature. Anyone in your team can add or remove resources, scale on demand, or bring resources online for testing. Add to this the fact that applications are deployed across multiple cloud accounts/regions and each service has its own API surface area, configurations, and…
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Five Cloud Operations Trends to look for in 2021
Cloud is the undisputed winner in 2020. Cloud-powered applications made their way into every aspect of our day–to-day lives — enabling remote workforces, delivering classroom instructions to millions of young minds and bringing online shopping to groceries and take outs. These changes in how customers consume goods and services have implications far beyond COVID-19. For businesses, 2020 was about experimenting…
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Application-level alerts, IFTTT style reactions and remediations with DAY2 CloudOps Automation Rules
We announced DAY2 CloudOps Automation Rules in December 2020. With DAY2 CloudOps Automation Rules, IT teams can save time in implementing system checks and improve accuracy of application reliability responses. With “if this than that” conditional logic DAY2 CloudOps Automation Rules enables IT teams to define the logical sequence of events that should take place…
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Deploy Operations Ready Containerized applications based on ECS and Fargate clusters using MontyCloud DAY2
Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate help customers scale their container clusters efficiently. As applications grow, container environments become complex and hard to manage. The infrastructure team at a large business conglomerate was spending 2-3 hours to scale up or down a cluster. In this blog Bhrikuty (Bhri) Aggarwal shares how infrastructure teams can…