Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale

By Dustin Ward

“The COVID-19 pandemic has reset what it means to work, study, and socialize. Like many of us, I have come to rely on Microsoft Teams as my connection to my colleagues. In this post, our friends from the Microsoft Teams product group—Rish Tandon (Corporate Vice President), Aarthi Natarajan (Group Engineering Manager), and Martin Taillefer (Architect)—share…

Azure responds to COVID-19

By Dustin Ward

The global health pandemic continues to impact every organization—large or small—their employees, and the customers they serve. Over the last several months, we have seen firsthand the role that cloud computing plays in sustaining operations across the board that helps us live, work, learn, and play. During this unparalleled time all of Microsoft’s cloud services,…

How a Cloud Center of Excellence Spurs Innovation and Competitiveness

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow a Cloud Center of Excellence Spurs Innovation and Competitiveness By Eric Carlo, Global Head of Consulting at ISSIBy Mike Williams, EVP for Business Development at ISSI In today’s fiercely competitive IT landscape, many AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners face the same challenge as end customers: how do you manage ever-accelerating cycles…

Continuous Diagrams as Code for AWS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedContinuous Diagrams as Code for AWS It is often very useful to share diagrams when describing a software architecture to others. It applies the old adage that a “picture is worth a thousand words”. What’s more, it also helps you – as a builder – understand what you built and to learn…

7 AWSome ways to use AWS Chatbot

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services Feed7 AWSome ways to use AWS Chatbot AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts, run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and…