Advancing in-datacenter critical environment infrastructure availability

By Dustin Ward

“One of the foundations of the Azure cloud computing platform is the availability of the critical environment (CE) infrastructure, which provides power and cooling to IT infrastructure in our datacenters around the world. For today’s post in our Advancing Reliability series, I’ve asked Reliability Engineering Director Randy Kong from our Cloud Operations and Innovation Engineering Team to…

Amazon CloudWatch releases a C# client library for Embedded Metric Format

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon CloudWatch releases a C# client library for Embedded Metric Format CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format enables you to ingest complex high-cardinality application data in the form of logs and easily generate actionable metrics from them. It has traditionally been hard to generate actionable custom metrics from your ephemeral resources such as Lambda functions, and…

Build secure encrypted data lakes with AWS Lake Formation

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuild secure encrypted data lakes with AWS Lake Formation Maintaining customer data privacy, protection against intellectual property loss, and compliance with data protection laws are essential objectives of today’s organizations. To protect data against security threats, vulnerabilities within the organization, malicious software, or cyber criminality, organizations are increasingly encrypting their data. Although you can…