Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – April 2021

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes in. We’re always…

An invitation to innovate and transform your business on Azure SQL

By Dustin Ward

The past several months have seen their share of hardship, but despite the challenges, organizations continue to see digital transformation in the cloud as a path to growth. The promises of accelerated innovation, efficient operations, and lower costs among others, have helped many businesses remain viable—if not thrive—and they’re now looking at how they can…

Manage fine-grained access control using AWS Lake Formation

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedManage fine-grained access control using AWS Lake Formation AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that helps you build, secure, and manage data lakes, and provide access control for data in the data lake. Customers across lines of business (LOBs) need a way to manage granular access permissions for different users at the…

Operating Lambda: Performance optimization – Part 1

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedOperating Lambda: Performance optimization – Part 1 In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This three-part series discusses performance optimization for Lambda-based applications. Serverless applications can be extremely performant, thanks to the ease of parallelization and concurrency. While the Lambda…