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Kong Expands AWS Offerings with Marketplace Listing and EKS Anywhere

Kong has been hard at work to provide our customers’ the best user experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. We’ve seen tremendous growth in our partnership with AWS in terms of joint solutions (co-build), building awareness through events and workshops (co-market), and growth in the adoption of our solutions (co-sell). In fact, Kong has seen exponential growth in our Kong on AWS business year over year.

Distributed tracing with Envoy, Kuma, Grafana Agent, and Jaeger

As a cloud service provider, observability is a critical subject as it's strongly related to the availability of the services running on the platform. We need to understand everything that is happening on our platform to troubleshoot errors as fast as possible and improve performance issues. A year ago, while the platform was still in private beta, we faced a tough reliability issue: users were facing random 500 errors when accessing their applications.

Overcoming Data Security Challenges in Cloud Computing

As we transition to a cloud computing architecture, data security and privacy must be given top priority. Data loss or data leakage can negatively affect an organization’s brand, reputation, and customer confidence. Data misuse is possible when multiple organizations share resources. Therefore, it is essential to protect data repositories as well as the data that is involved in processing, transport, or storage to reduce risk.

Types of Cloud Computing Platforms and their Benefits

We are in post-pandemic times but certain things are not going back to “normal”. Although we get used to spending long hours using technology, businesses and people are still having a hard time jumping into a fully cloud-based environment, and that’s ok. There are some risks to consider depending on the business industry, like privacy protocols, control of data, and so on.

Key choices in AWS network design: VPC peering vs Transit Gateway and beyond

This blog post is the first in what we intend to be a series to detail Ably’s journey in building the next iteration of our global network. It focuses on the design and we will follow up with posts detailing the building, and finally migration from old to new. If you are interested in how you can network AWS accounts together on a global scale then read on! Ably operates a global network spanning 8 AWS regions with hundreds of additional points-of-presences.

6 Essential SaaS Tools for Growing Your Business

SaaS (Software as a Service) has gained massive popularity within the last decade. Consumer software, like Google, is the most well-known today, but it accounts for only a fraction of the SaaS industry. Today’s modern enterprise SaaS platforms address specific business needs — such as Salesforce resolving customer data management and Zoho addressing help desk issues. So how can you get a leg up on the competition? Simple: use the right tool or platform(s).