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Observability & Monitoring in Modern Cloud Environments

Observability & Monitoring in Modern Cloud Environments

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Your deployment runs smoothly, everything in the dashboard is green, and yet the first users are already reporting slow load times. Welcome to the day-to-day reality of modern cloud environments. Whereas in the past a single server was either up or down, today you distribute your application across containers, microservices, and Kubernetes clusters. Cloud monitoring in the traditional sense may answer the question “Is it running?”, but it doesn’t answer the much more important question: “Why...

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Managed Cloud Services: What Are They?

Managed Cloud Services: What Are They?

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If you run an application in the cloud, you usually only see a small part of it: your dashboard, your deployments, and maybe a few charts. What you don’t see is what really makes a managed cloud service stand out. For example, monitoring systems that run around the...

Pod Security Standards in Kubernetes

Pod Security Standards in Kubernetes

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It has been over five years since Pod Security Policies (PSP) in Kubernetes were replaced by the newer Pod Security Standards (PSS). One of the main reasons for this major change was to simplify management - and yet, even today, Pod Security Standards are still far...

Kubernetes Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Kubernetes Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

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Kubernetes is now the standard for modern container orchestration. Companies benefit from scalability, automation, and a high degree of flexibility. But it is precisely this complexity that often leads to common operational errors. Many of these problems aren’t caused...

GDPR & cloud: what is really important

GDPR & cloud: what is really important

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The use of cloud technologies has long since become the standard in today's world. At the same time, however, the responsibility to protect personal data is growing. This is precisely where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into play. It defines...

Backup & recovery in the cloud

Backup & recovery in the cloud

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The easiest way to get started: the cloud as secure data storage with minimal effort. For many companies, getting started in the cloud initially seems complex: migrations, new architectures, changed processes. However, there is one area that deliberately sets itself...

The most important terms explained in the cloud glossary

The most important terms explained in the cloud glossary

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Cloud computing forms the basis of modern IT infrastructures. You will come across countless technical terms, especially when getting started - from API to disaster recovery to virtual machines. In this comprehensive cloud glossary, I explain the most important terms...

Cybersecurity-as-a-Service as part of managed services

Cybersecurity-as-a-Service as part of managed services

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Cybersecurity-as-a-Service (CSaaS) is a specialized sub-sector of managed services in which external service providers (Managed Security Service Providers, MSSPs) take over the security infrastructure as well as the monitoring and management of IT systems. In view of...

Standardized vs. customized managed services

Standardized vs. customized managed services

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The role of IT has changed fundamentally: It is no longer just a cost factor, but also a driver of innovation. At the same time, the requirements for availability, security, scalability and compliance are constantly increasing. Managed services have long been more...

Interview series: Justin Lamp on Kubernetes

Interview series: Justin Lamp on Kubernetes

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Every story begins with people who make a difference. In our interview series, it is precisely these people who have their say: NWS employees who share their experiences, ideas and insights with us. We want to know what drives them and what we can all learn from them....