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AWS Managed Services by Anchor 2021-02-15 06:47:22

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2021/02/25661/

How handy would a cool $5000 boost be to improving your company’s digital disaster plan? Amazon Web Services’ “Project Resilience” may be just the ticket to securing your organisation in the event of a future disaster.

AWS recently announced that they would be launching “Project Resilience” in Australia and New Zealand. With the Project Resilience initiative, local governments, community organisations, and educational institutions will be provided with up to $5,000 USD (roughly $6,500 AUD at time of writing) in account credits to assist them in preparing for the potential impacts caused by human errors or natural and manmade disasters. If your organisation is granted a credit, it will be valid for one year, or until it is fully used up. AWS has advised there will be no opportunity to extend the validity of any credit given, so it is important to plan out your project’s timeline if you intend to apply to ensure you do so at the right time.

In addition to the initial credit, a further ~$6,500 AUD credit may be provided towards the cost of hiring AWS Professional Services where necessary – however, organisations may still choose to seek their own support from a certified AWS partner.

Country Director Australia and New Zealand for Amazon Web Services Public Sector, Iain Rouse, had this to say:

“AWS Project Resilience supports organisations, such as those on the front lines including police, fire, and emergency responders, that play a critical role in ensuring their community’s resilience, by helping them develop and manage the technology-based aspects of disaster preparedness.”

“Project Resilience offers eligible local government, education, and small and medium community organisations up to US$5,000 in AWS credits, which can be used to offset the cost of storing their data safely and securely on AWS. This means that even if computing equipment, such as laptops and servers, are damaged in a disaster, their critical data is still securely stored in the AWS Cloud, and can be easily accessed by them at any time.”

As we know too well from the tumultuous summer we faced in 2019 through 2020, Australia is particularly susceptible to natural disasters, such as bushfires and flooding. New Zealand has also had their fair share of natural disasters in recent years in the form of earthquakes, cyclones and volcanic events. And of course, there is the current global disaster that is COVID-19. Rouse adds that “It is vital for AWS to work along with partners and customers to help people respond to such crises and develop solutions that’ll help reduce the impact of such disasters”.

The initiative is a great move to encourage organisations to move into new digital territories that can greatly enhance their efficiency and survivability with significantly improved data storage infrastructure, as well as more reliable disaster recovery and security processes. The reliability that AWS cloud provides is absolutely crucial when disasters and emergency services are involved. Having your important business data and assets safely stored and replicated across multiple geographical locations goes a long way to ensure a business can quickly recover from the unexpected. It seems Rouse would agree, saying that “One of the many critical tasks in times of a disaster is to make sure data regarding people, services and assets stay safe and accessible, even under threat”.

It’s an exciting time for Australia in the cloud space. Our geographical remoteness and the associated cost of bandwidth has often led to our exclusion, or at least, a significant delay when it comes to enjoying the latest in technological advancements. But times have largely changed in that regard in that our remote location is no longer such a hindering factor. And now, with AWS providing specialised support offerings to their customers based on their particular challenges, the benefits of cloud technologies are only growing.

AWS continues to innovate on their product offering, providing initiatives to their customers of all sizes, with Australia and New Zealand very much included. With Amazon late last year announcing they would be creating a new AWS region in Melbourne (their second region for Oceania), there has never been a better time to make the move to the cloud. (P.s. You can check out our blog post covering the new Melbourne AWS region here!)

While AWS have not mentioned many specifics regarding eligibility, an application form and further information regarding Project Resilience can be found on the AWS website here.

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AWS Managed Services by Anchor 2021-02-12 02:20:26

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2021/02/is-it-possible-to-downsize-it-staff-by-making-the-switch-to-aws/

If you’re an SMB or enterprise business with a sizable reliance on digital infrastructure, it is a common query to wonder if moving your online services to a cloud provider could allow you simplify your services, benefit from a network that is perceived to be infallible, and ultimately, to downsize on technical staff and slim down your IT spend.

Many businesses believe that without having to purchase their own server hardware, pay for data centre rackspace costs, or pay for quite so many staff members to manage it all, a significant amount of money can be saved on IT costs. However, while it is true that moving to the AWS cloud would reduce hardware and rackspace costs to nil, there are a number of new costs and challenges to consider.

Is the cloud actually cheaper?

Upon completing the migration from data centre hosting services to cloud hosting services, many businesses mistakenly believe that they will be able to lower their costs by downsizing on the number of IT staff they need to manage their technological infrastructure. This is not always the case. Cloud can require more extensive expertise to both set up and maintain on an ongoing basis as a trade-off for the other benefits offered.

AWS is a complex beast, and without proper support and planning, businesses can find their costs higher than they originally were, their services more complex and difficult to manage, as well as their online assets failing on an even more regular basis. Wasted cloud spend is a very common occurrence within the cloud services industry, with many cloud users not optimising costs where they can. In a 2019 report from Flexera, they measured the actual waste of cloud spending at 35 percent.

Why is it not such a simple switch?

Cloud is fundamentally a different approach to hosting and provides more opportunity, scale and complexity. Understanding how to make the most of those requires a thorough assessment of your infrastructure and business. It is, therefore, of pertinent importance to ensure that the IT staff that you do intend to retain are properly trained and qualified to manage cloud services.

Check out our blog, “What’s the difference between Traditional Hosting and AWS Cloud Hosting?” for more information on how the two environments greatly differ.

If your IT staff are more certified in AWS cloud management, you could be looking at higher costs than you started with. You would therefore need to factor in the costs of hiring new, properly qualified staff, or investing in upskilling existing staff – at the risk of losing that investment should the staff member leave in future.

The costs of qualified staff.

Certain types of AWS certified professionals are able to command some of the highest salaries in the cloud industry, due to the high level of expertise and capability that they can provide to a business. AWS engineers can maintain the performance and security of high- demand websites and software, optimising them for lower cost and better performance. 

Large enterprises conducting a high volume of online transactions, or businesses that involve the handling of sensitive data would be in particular need of high-quality architects and engineers to keep their cloud environments both adequately optimised, reliable and safe. Though even as a small business, the build, deployment and operating of AWS services is always best conducted by experienced, AWS certified professionals to ensure the integrity and availability of your online services.

A win-win alternative.

What many businesses have discovered is that there is an alternative to managing their own AWS infrastructure. AWS management service providers can act as the vital middleman between your business and your cloud services, ensuring your digital infrastructure is being set up, maintained and cost-optimised by industry-leading AWS professionals.

Oftentimes, the cost optimisations achieved by a high-quality AWS management service provider completely pay for themselves in what would otherwise be wasted spend. Check out our blog, “4 Important Considerations To Avoid Wasted Cloud Spend” to learn more about wasted cloud spend.

One of the most beneficial things an AWS management service provider can offer your business is ensuring that you’re only paying for what your business needs. It may save your business significantly more money in the long run, even when factoring in management fees.

If you’re interested in learning more about how managed AWS services can help your business to potentially slim down on IT spend, please contact our friendly AWS experts on 1300 883 979, or submit an enquiry through our website anytime.

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Why businesses are migrating to AWS Managed Cloud Hosting during the COVID-19 pandemic

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2021/02/why-businesses-are-migrating-to-aws-managed-cloud-hosting-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

COVID-19 has been an eye-opening experience for many of us. Prior to the current pandemic, many of us, as individuals, had never experienced the impacts of a global health crisis before. The same can very much be said for the business world. Quite simply, many businesses never considered it, nor had a plan in place to survive it.

As a consequence, we’ve seen the devastating toll that COVID-19 has had on some businesses and even entire sectors. According to an analysis by Oxford Economics, McKinsey and McKinsey Global Institute, certain sectors such as manufacturing, accommodation and food services, arts, entertainment and recreation, transportation and warehousing and educational services will take at least 5 years to recover from the impact of COVID-19 and return to pre-pandemic contributions to GDP. There is one industry however, that was impacted by the pandemic in the very opposite way; technology services.

The growth of our digital landscape

With many countries going into varying levels of lockdown, schools and workplaces shutting down their premises, and social distancing enforcement in many facets of our new COVID-safe lives, our reliance on technology has skyrocketed throughout 2020. In 2020, “buy online” searches increased by 50% over 2019, almost doubling during the first wave of the pandemic in March. Looking at statistics from the recent Black Friday sales event gives us a staggering further example of how much our lives have transitioned into the digital world.

In the US, Black Friday online searches increased by 34.13% this year. Even here in Australia, where there is significantly less tradition surrounding the Thanksgiving/Black Friday events, online searches for Black Friday still also increased by 34.39%. Globally, when you compare October 2019 to October 2020, online retail traffic numbers grew by a massive 30%, which accounts for billions of visitors.

Retail isn’t the only sector that now relies on the cloud far more heavily than ever before. Enterprises have also had to move even more of their operations into the cloud to accommodate the sudden need for remote working facilities. With lockdowns occurring all over the world for sometimes unknown lengths of time, businesses have had to quickly adapt to allow employees to continue their roles from their own homes. Likewise, the education sector is another who have had to adapt to providing their resources and services to students remotely. Cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, are the only viable platforms that are set up to handle such vast volumes of data while remaining both reliable and affordable.

Making the transition to online

With such clear growth in the digital sector, it makes sense that businesses who already existed online, or were quick to transition to an online presence at the start of the pandemic, have by far and large had the best chance at surviving. In the early months of the pandemic, many bricks and mortar businesses returned to their innovative roots, finding ways to digitise and mobilise their products and services. Many in the hospitality industry, for example, had to quickly adapt to online ordering and delivery to stay afloat, while many other businesses and sectors transitioned in new and unexpected ways too.

What many of these businesses had in common, was to decide somewhere along the way how to get online quickly, while being mindful of costs and long-term sustainability. When it comes to flexibility, availability and reliability, there really is no competition to cloud computing to be able to consistently deliver all three.

What is AWS Managed Cloud Hosting?

Amazon Web Services has taken over the world as one of the leading public cloud infrastructure providers, offering an abundance of products and services that can greatly assist you in bringing your business presence online.

AWS provides pay-as-you-go infrastructure that allows businesses to scale their IT resources with the business demand. Prior to the proliferation of cloud providers, businesses would turn to smaller localised companies, such as web hosts and software development agencies, to provide them with what they needed. Over recent years, things have greatly progressed as cloud services have become more expansive, integrated and able to cater to more complex business requirements than ever before.

When you first create an account with AWS and open up the console menu for the first time, the expansive nature of the services that they provide becomes very apparent.

Here, you’ll find all of the most expected services such as online storage facilities such as (S3), database hosting (RDS), DNS hosting (Route 53) and computing (EC2). But it doesn’t stop there, other popular services include Lambda, Lightsail and VPC, creating an array of infrastructure options large enough to host any environment. At the time of writing, there are 161 different services on offer in the AWS Management Console, spread out over 26 broader categories.

AWS Cloud Uptake during the Pandemic

Due to the flexible, scalable and highly reliable nature of AWS cloud hosting, the uptake of managed cloud services has continued to rise steadily throughout the pandemic. So far in 2020, AWS has experienced a 29% growth, bringing the total value up to a sizable $10.8bn.

With the help of an accredited and reputable AWS MSP (Managed Service Provider), businesses of all scales are able to digitise their operations quickly and cost-effectively. Whether you’re an SMB in the retail space who needs to provide a reliable platform for customers to find and purchase your goods, or an enterprise level business with thousands of staff members who rely on internal networks to perform their work remotely, AWS provides a vast array of services to cater to every need.

If you’re interested in finding out what AWS cloud hosting could do for your business, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our expert team for a free consultation.

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AWS Managed Services by Anchor 2021-02-12 01:52:57

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2021/02/25645/

The thought of downtime can bring a chill to the bones of any IT team. Depending on the online demand you have for your products or services, even an hour or two of downtime can result in significant financial losses or catastrophic consequences of various other kinds.

As such, avoiding downtime should be a high priority item for any IT or Operations Manager. So, is the AWS cloud completely immune to downtime? We’ll discuss the various aspects of this question below.

The true cost of downtime

The true cost of downtime will vary from business to business, but whether you’re an SMB or an enterprise, all businesses that have critical services on the cloud should design their services from the ground up for high availability.

Gartner has reported the average cost of downtime to be $5,600 per minute. This varies between businesses, as no single business is run the exact same way or has the exact same setup, so at the low end this average could be more like $140,000 per hour, and $300,000 per hour on the high end.

To further break down their findings, Gartner’s research showed that 98% of organisations experience costs over $100,000 from a single hour of downtime. 81% of respondents said that 60 minutes of downtime costs their business in excess of $300,000. And 33% of enterprises found that that one hour of downtime cost them anywhere between $1-5 million.

Some of the causes for such a huge loss during and after a business experiences downtime can include some of the following:

  • Loss of sales
  • Certain business-critical data can become corrupted, depending on the outage
  • Costs of reviewing and resolving systems issues and processes
  • Detrimental reputational effect with stakeholders and customers
  • A drop in employee morale
  • A reduction in employee productivity

The always-online cloud services fallacy

Many businesses have migrated to the cloud and assumed that high availability is all a part of the cloud package, and doesn’t require any further expertise, investigation or implementation – however, this is not the case. To ensure high availability and uptime of internal systems and tools, a business must plan for this during its initial implementation. Properly setting up a business AWS environment for high availability requires an in-depth understanding of all that AWS has to offer, which is where a business can benefit greatly from outsourcing to an MSP that specialises in AWS cloud services.

Your business could experience more downtime with AWS than you would with a traditional hosting service.

Many people are surprised to learn that simply migrating to the cloud doesn’t automatically mean that their services will effectively become bullet-proof. In fact, the opposite can often be true.

AWS cloud services are complex and require extensive experience and in-depth knowledge to properly manage. This means there is a far greater chance for error when AWS services are being configured by an inexperienced user, leaving the services more vulnerable to security threats or performance issues that could ultimately result in downtime.

However, on the other hand, when AWS cloud services have been properly planned and configured from the ground up by certified professionals, the cloud can offer significantly greater availability and protection from downtime than traditional hosting services.

High Availability, Redundancy and Backups

‘High Availability’ is a term often attributed to cloud services, and refers to having multiple geographical regions where your website or application can be accessed from (as opposed to end-users always relaying requests back to a single server in one location). Because of the dynamic and data replicating nature of the cloud, some businesses mistake high availability for being inclusive of redundancy and backups.

                    

High availability can refer to redundancy in the sense that should one geographical access point suffer an outage, and another can automatically step in to cater to an end-user’s request. However, it does not mean that your website or application does not still also require an effective backup and disaster recovery plan.

                    

Should something go wrong with your cloud services, or certain parts of your environment become unavailable, you will need to rely on your own plan for replication or recovery. AWS offers a range of options to cater to this, and these should always be carefully considered and implemented during the planning and building phases.

How can you best protect your business from downtime?

So, to answer the question “Are AWS cloud services immune to downtime?”, the answer is no, as it would be for any form of technology. At this time, there is no technology that can truly claim to be entirely failsafe. However, AWS cloud services can get your business as close to failsafe as it is possible to get – if it’s done right.

For businesses that are serious about ensuring their online operations are available as much as possible, such as those involved in providing critical care, high demand eCommerce environments, or enterprise-level tools and systems, it’s essential to have your cloud services designed by a team of certified AWS professionals who have the correct credentials and expertise. If you’re interested in discussing this further, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our expert team for a free consultation.

 

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Hostopia Australia continues to build momentum into 2021 as Contino’s Gerald Bachlmayr is appointed as Chief Architect – AWS Cloud.

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2021/01/gerald-bachlmayr-appointment/

14th January 2021 – Anchor is excited to welcome Gerald Bachlmayr as our Chief Architect – AWS Cloud.

The newly created role comes after a year of significant investment and growth into our AWS business and follows the appointment of new General Manager, Darryn McCoskery, in February 2019.

In his new role, Gerald is spearheading the AWS cloud and customer delivery strategy for Anchor, whilst streamlining the delivery for AWS cloud customers. 

Gerald is excited and energised for the journey ahead and looks forward to the new challenge and continuing to drive AWS momentum for Anchor.

“There is a strong movement towards digital transformation and simplification within the industry. This is a huge opportunity for Anchor to leverage our exemplary engineering talent and experience to deliver an outstanding customer experience”, Gerald said.

Prior to his two and a half year stint at Contino as Technical Principal Consultant, Bachlmayr held cloud transformation and consulting roles as Westpac Group, Transport for NSW and University of NSW.

As an AWS and digital transformation ambassador and with a long list of AWS certifications under his belt, Gerald’s appointment sets the scene for the growth to come for Anchor and AWS in 2021.

You can find a list of Bachlmayr’s previous publications here.

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Hostopia Australia Signs Deal With Equinix, Launches New Private And Hybrid Cloud Offering

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/12/hostopia-australia-signs-deal-with-equinix-launches-new-private-and-hybrid-cloud-offering/

Sydney, Australia – 02 December , 2020 – Cloud services and hosting provider Hostopia Australia today announced a long term deal with the world’s digital infrastructure company Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX).

Hostopia Australia will consolidate its current footprint of five separate data centres across Sydney and Melbourne into Equinix’s state of the art SY5 and ME2 International Business ExchangeTM (IBX®) data centres launched in late 2019 and early 2020 respectively. The Equinix facilities are designed, built and operated with high energy efficiency standards. The SY5 facility is Equinix’s largest data center in Australia.

The deployment will enable Hostopia to overcome the limitations of its current data centres spread across different locations, by leveraging Equinix’s world class infrastructure and network service capabilities, thus improving the service delivery and connectivity for over 50,000 of Hostopia’s customers across ANZ.

Ross Krumbeck, CTO for Hostopia Australia commented: “This collaboration with Equinix will enable us to consolidate and reduce the number of disparate providers we were working with. Beyond a simple data centre agreement, this collaboration will allow our customers to benefit from best of breed data centre facilities with high security and compliance standards, robust power and cooling redundancy as well as abundant connectivity options.”

The deployment with Equinix will allow Hostopia Australia’s managed cloud brand, Anchor, to provide customers with superior, best-of-breed equipment and high-speed connectivity. It also means Anchor will be able to provide more tailored data centre solutions, especially for those customers with very specialised needs and requirements, as well as do co-selling and build side-by-side services on Platform Equinix®.

Hostopia’s Anchor customers will also be able to access the Equinix Fabric™ – formerly known as Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric, which allows businesses to set up on-demand and secure connections to more than 2,300 participants across all regions around the world.

Guy Danskine, Managing Director, Equinix Australia said: “Businesses across Australia are increasingly turning to hybrid cloud architectures as part of their digital transformation journeys. By deploying on Platform Equinix, Hostopia will give its customers access to our robust cloud ecosystem and benefit from improved service delivery and connectivity.  

“Beyond just supporting our existing and future customers across ANZ, Equinix’s global footprint means we’ll be able to expand our reach and support both ANZ customers looking to grow internationally, and overseas companies looking to start operations in our region. This is of utmost importance as we are just launching our private and hybrid cloud offering and expect to grow significantly in 2021”, added Krumbeck.  

Launching a new private and hybrid cloud offering, supported by Equinix

Platform Equinix will provide Hostopia with extra capabilities to support the launch of its new private and hybrid cloud offering which will trade under the Anchor name.

As of today, Anchor is offering ANZ customers the opportunity to build tailored private and hybrid cloud environments in VMWare, one of Anchor’s key partners, at Equinix SY5 and ME2 facilities.

This new offering has been built to support organisations which are not ready to operate in full public cloud environments yet. Anchor’s new private and hybrid cloud offering comes with extra managed and professional services layer:

Anchor’s cloud experts will be able to create 100% bespoke solutions based on each customer’s unique needs and requirements, and accompany them step by step in their cloud journey whether they want to stay in a private cloud environment, or move toward hybrid or public cloud.

For Darryn McCoskery, General Manager for Hostopia Australia: “As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic we’ve seen a rush of organisations either expanding their cloud footprint, or looking into kick starting their cloud journeys. It’s important we can accompany those organisations every step of the way, no matter where they are at with their cloud journeys”. 

“What 2020 has proven is that cloud is not an option anymore, and as we enter 2021 it will be even more paramount to build resilience and stay relevant amid a constantly, rapidly changing economic environment”.

Hostopia is the largest hosting company in Australia and an emerging leader in Cloud Engineering Services. Hostopia provides fast, secure and scalable solutions, enabling digital success for thousands of businesses around the world. With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Hostopia has built and procured a versatile portfolio of cloud and hosting brands. Learn more at www.hostopia.com.au.

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3 Common Problems Businesses Face Which Can Be Solved By AWS Cloud.

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/11/3-common-problems-businesses-face-which-can-be-solved-by-aws-cloud/

Business leaders know all too well the long list of challenges involved in taking any business to the next level. Cash flow, human resources, infrastructure, growing marketing spend, refining or expanding on processes, and company culture are just a few of the many considerations. One particularly important challenge is choosing the right software and tools early on, to allow your business to provide its products or services efficiently and cost-effectively.

One of the greatest ways to achieve reliable and harmonious business practices is to ensure the technological infrastructure that your business is built upon is carefully planned to not only cater to your immediate business needs but also to be flexible for future growth.

Cloud computing services are more popular than ever before, and even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, have continued to grow just as steadily. Below, we’ve outlined 5 common business problems that are solved by migration to AWS cloud. If you’ve been considering the potential advantages of AWS for your business, read on!

Common problem: Convoluted/expensive/unnecessary services within pre-packaged traditional hosting plans.

With traditional hosting services, products tend to be pre-packaged with a selection of commonly required services as well as tiered/set resources. As a business grows larger and requires more heavy-duty online infrastructure, the cost of pre-packaged services can become much more expensive than it needs to be. That is because you may not be using some of the inclusions provided with these services, or require less of one resource or more of another. Pre-packaged service pricing also generally has factored in the cost of software licences needed to deliver all of the inclusions offered. If you’re not using these services, why should you be paying for them?

How AWS cloud computing services solves this: With AWS cloud hosting, each individual service is billed separately, and charges are based on different metrics such as the number of hours or seconds a service is online, or how much data transfer takes place. This allows a business to have very granular control over where they are directing their spend, as well as offering the ability to avoid paying for service inclusions that they are simply not using.

Common problem: Cost creep over time.

Cost creep is a common problem both in traditional hosting services and cloud computing services. As your business grows and evolves, your online infrastructure may need access to more services, features or integrations, as well as more computing resources. Each of these things almost always comes with an additional cost.

How AWS cloud computing services solves this: Between traditional hosting services and cloud computing, cloud is the only one that offers a plethora of ways to prevent, monitor and even reverse cost creep over time. Cost creep is a common occurrence for many businesses, especially in the early deployment stages when traffic is the least predictable and resource requirements are difficult to allocate in advance. This is something that can be greatly improved over time as usage data becomes available, along with traffic and resource usage patterns of your website or application. With proper maintenance and the utilisation of AWS reserved instances (which can provide the same resources at a greatly lower cost), there are many opportunities to minimise, and even reverse cost creep over time with cloud services.

Common problem: Infrastructure that offers a lack of horizontal scaling.

Horizontal scaling can translate to cost efficiencies, by adding or removing computing resources, and only paying for them while you are actually using them. For example, say you were running a food delivery application where you required a lot of computing resources to handle traffic during the lunch and dinner rush. If you were to purchase a computing instance with enough power to handle the rush hour, that might become an expensive waste of resources to still be running when business is quiet at 4 am. This is where horizontal scaling can come in to maximise efficiency through the addition and reduction of additional computing power, as needed.

Traditional hosting services rarely offer horizontal scalability, meaning you will be overpaying for resources or services that you aren’t utilising a lot of the time.

How AWS cloud computing services solves this: AWS offers powerful options when it comes to horizontally scaling computing power on demand. Scaling horizontally means adding additional computing instances to support an application running on an existing instance, as needed.

One of the greatest advantages of cloud computing services such as AWS is that their range of services are billed by the amount of time you are using them. So horizontal scaling can translate to cost efficiencies, by adding or removing computing resources, and only paying for them while you are actually using them.

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4 Important Considerations To Avoid Wasted Cloud Spend

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/11/4-important-considerations-to-avoid-wasted-cloud-spend/

Growth for cloud services is at an all-time high in 2020, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses scrambling to migrate to the cloud as soon as possible. But with that record growth, wasted spend on unnecessary or unoptimised cloud usage is also at an all-time high.

 

Wasted cloud spend generally boils down to paying for services or resources that you aren’t using. You can most commonly attribute wasted spend on services that aren’t being used at all in either the development or production stages, services that are often idle (not being used 80-90% of the time), or simply over-provisioned resources (more resources than necessary).

 

Wasted cloud spend is expected to reach as high as $17.6 billion in 2020. In a 2019 report from Flexera, they measured the actual waste of cloud spending at 35 percent of all cloud services revenue. This highlights how crucial it can be, and how much money a business can save, by having an experienced and dedicated AWS management team looking after their cloud services. In many cases, having the right team managing your cloud services can more than repay any associated management costs. Read on below for some further insight into the most common pitfalls of wasted cloud spending.

Lack Of Research, Skills and/or Management

A lack of proper research, skills or management involved in a migration to cloud services is probably the most frequent and costly pitfall. Without proper AWS cloud migration best practices and a comprehensive strategy in place, businesses may dive into setting up their services without realising how complex the initial learning curve can be to sufficiently manage their cloud spend. It’s a common occurrence for not just businesses, but anyone first experimenting with cloud, to see a bill that’s much higher than they first anticipated. This can lead a business to believe the cloud is significantly more expensive than it really needs to be.

 

It’s absolutely crucial to have a strategy in place for all potential usage situations, so that you don’t end up paying much more than you should. This is something that a managed cloud provider can expertly design for you, to ensure that you’re only paying for exactly what you need and potentially quite drastically reducing your spend over time.

Unused Or Unnecessary Snapshots

Snapshots can create a point in time backup of your AWS services. Each snapshot contains all of the information that is needed to restore your data to the point when the snapshot was taken. This is an incredibly important and useful tool when managed correctly. However it’s also one of the biggest mistakes businesses can make in their AWS cloud spend.

 

Charges for snapshots are based on the amount of data stored, and each snapshot increases the amount of data that you’re storing. Many users will take and store a high number of snapshots and never delete them when they’re no longer needed, and in a lot of cases, not realise that this is exponentially increasing their cloud spend.

Idle Resources

Idle resources account for another of the largest parts of cloud waste. Idle resources are resources that aren’t being used for anything, yet you’re still paying for them. They can be useful in the event of resource spike, but for the most part may not be worth you paying for them when you look at your average usage over a period of time. A good analogy for this would be paying rent for a holiday home all year round, when you only spend 2 weeks using it every Christmas. This is where horizontal scaling comes into play. When set up by skilled AWS experts, horizontal scaling can turn services and resources on or off depending on when they are actually needed.

Over-Provisioned Services

This particular issue somewhat ties into idle resources, as seen above. Over-provisioned services refers to paying for entire instances that are not in use whatsoever, or very minimally. This could be an Amazon RDS service for a database that’s not in use, an Amazon EC2 instance that’s idle 100% of the time, or any number of other services. It’s important to have a cloud strategy in place that involves frequently auditing what services your business is using and not using, in order to minimise your cloud spend as much as possible.

Conclusion

As you can see from the statistics provided by Flexera above, wasted cloud spend is one of the most significant problems facing businesses that have migrated to the cloud. But with the right team of experts in place, wasted spend can easily be avoided, and even mitigate management costs, leaving you in a far better position in terms of both service performance, reliability and support, and overall costs.

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Why is it vital for businesses to outsource AWS management?

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/10/why-is-it-vital-for-businesses-to-outsource-aws-management/

Some of us may have learnt during 2020 that there are simply some things that one cannot DIY without proper skills and expertise. Perhaps during the pandemic lockdown, your local hairdresser was closed, and you turned to a DIY YouTube tutorial and learnt this the hardest way of all. But, even if you survived 2020 without a fringe 2 inches too short, managing AWS services is a whole other ball game that requires years of training and dedicated skill to properly deploy, manage and keep expenses under control.

As powerful as AWS is, and as much as it can do for your business, it can be all-but impossible to do it right if you have never set foot in the AWS Management console before. AWS is complex, and requires expertise to truly get the most from it. While you may be able to perform basic provisioning tasks and perhaps get a service up and running, ensuring that that service is performing optimally and cost-efficiently is where professional AWS management can truly revolutionise your infrastructure strategy and budget.

Managed AWS services is one of the largest outsourced areas of the IT industry. According to a recent Gartner forecast, almost 19% of cloud budgets are spent on cloud management-related services, such as cloud consulting, implementation, migration and managed services – with this percentage expected to increase in the next few years (and for good reason). In this article we will delve into just a few of the reasons why you’re far better off putting your AWS management in the hands of experts.

Cost Savings

Wasted cloud spend is a very common occurrence within the cloud services industry, with many cloud users not optimising costs where they can. In a 2019 report from Flexera, they measured the actual waste of cloud spending at 35 percent.

One of the most beneficial things an AWS management service provider can offer your business is ensuring that you’re only paying for what your business needs. It may save your business significantly more money in the long run, even when factoring in management fees.

Free Up Your Time

You should focus on what you and your business do best. Sure, you could put in many hours to understand as much as possible and get up and running yourself, but many businesses find that time is much better spent on focussing on your core service offerings and leaving management to your managed service provider.

On top of the initial learning curve, there is also the time investment needed for ongoing training as new AWS cloud services are released and new management tools are developed. Best practice changes very frequently, and it can be a significant undertaking to try and keep your finger on the pulse while simultaneously trying to handle every other area of your business.

Proactive Management

Ensuring that your business leverages AWS’ ability to scale and adjust depending on your current needs is essential. An AWS partner and managed service provider can help you understand your businesses needs, and adjust course as necessary to meet each new scenario.

A good example of scaling to meet current needs is the COVID-19 pandemic. The cloud services industry has seen significant growth during 2020 due to its ability to rapidly scale and support sudden growth. For example, web traffic and bandwidth requirements skyrocketed in 2020 with more people turning to eCommerce to acquire their everyday household items as well as remotely attend school and work.

Avoiding Downtime and Increasing Stability

Any number of things can happen to your hosted services, and when they do, it’s crucial that you have an experienced team on hand to tackle whatever comes your way. There’s nothing worse than hosting your mission-critical services on AWS and not having the experience to get services up and running as soon as possible when things go wrong.

A qualified AWS management team will also put best practice measures into place to improve the resilience of your configuration, and minimise the chance of anything going wrong in the first place.

Conclusion

When deciding what is the best course of action for your business, it’s imperative to ensure that your mission-critical cloud services are in good hands. It can be shown that in many cases, having AWS experts handle your businesses cloud needs can more than repay the associated management fees, leaving you better off both in terms of support and costs.

If you’re looking for advice on AWS cloud migration best practices, don’t hesitate to get in touch with one of our expert cloud architects today.

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Cloud Services VS COVID-19: How has the pandemic affected the Cloud Hosting industry?

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/10/cloud-services-vs-covid-19-how-has-the-pandemic-affected-the-cloud-hosting-industry/

2020 has surely been a questionable year for the human race. An unexpected hail storm, if you will. But for the cloud services market? According to recent statistics, not a cloud in the sky.

Despite the unprecedented chaos that has befallen many facets of our daily lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s cloud spending has continued to significantly and consistently increase year-on-year. When it comes to the growth of cloud services, 2020 is no exception.

Ultimately, this makes sense. Demand and reliance on digital services has greatly increased this year as many businesses hurry to transform their bricks and mortar presences into digital income streams, in an attempt to survive such uncertain times. Grocery and home goods purchases, learning, working and even many social activities are now conducted primarily online as we fight the global challenges of COVID-19.

According to recent research published by Synergy Research Group, cloud spending passed $30 billion in the second quarter of 2020, an increase of $7.5 billion when compared to the same time last year. In terms of region-specific growth, cloud services have continued to grow steadily all around the world, seemingly regardless of how each region has uniquely been affected by the pandemic.

Of the largest Cloud service providers, AWS has continued to maintain a dominant lead in market share, steadily towering over Google and Microsoft’s cloud service offerings. At the time of writing, the market share is dispersed approximately as follows:

Amazon AWS: 33%

Microsoft Azure: 18%

Google Cloud Platform: 9%

Some of the smaller providers that trail this list include Alibaba Cloud, IBM, Salesforce, Tencent and Oracle.

Cloud infrastructure market share figures, including IaaS, PaaS, and Hosted Private Cloud: Q2 2020

For those of you who may have a penchant for the numbers, we’ve delved a little further into the figures for Logging as a service (LaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and hosted private cloud in 2020.

Public IaaS and PaaS services have maintained the majority of the market share, which grew by 34% in Q2. The lead that Amazon, Google, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba, and IBM hold over their competitors is even more significant in public cloud, where they control close to 80% of the market combined.

Regarding their findings, chief analyst at Synergy Research, John Dinsdale, had this to say:

“As far as cloud market numbers go, it’s almost as if there were no COVID-19 pandemic raging around the world. As enterprises struggle to adapt to new norms, the advantages of public cloud are amplified.” 

“The percentage growth rate is coming down, as it must when a market reaches enormous scale, but the incremental growth in absolute dollar terms remains truly impressive. The market remains on track to grow by well over 30% in 2020.”

As their findings indicate, the global pandemic certainly hasn’t slowed down the growth rate of Cloud services. With the pressure of more and more companies being forced online, or to shift their entire organisation to being able to work from home, the need to migrate to the cloud is clearly far greater than ever before.

John Dinsdale also had this to say:

“If anything, the pandemic has helped to highlight some of the main benefits of public cloud,” 

Chief among those benefits is the flexibility and scalability that cloud hosting offers. In a time where millions of workers have had to change the way they conduct their daily lives, and companies have had to quickly shift resources, the ability to be able to scale horizontally or vertically to accommodate for that shift in lifestyle is more important than ever. Where other industries have been devastated by COVID-19, the cloud services industry has proven to be more durable, largely due to its capacity to assist companies in tackling the numerous challenges that a pandemic inflicts.

Ready to tap in?

If you have been considering a switch to the cloud, or believe that your business could benefit from additional scalability, flexibility and durability during the new era of heightened online commerce, we strongly suggest consulting with a certified AWS partner, to make your move as smooth, secure and cost-efficient as possible.

Cloud services have proven to be one of the most resilient (and thriving) industries in a COVID-19 world. This can also be said of most companies who have utilised it to bring their businesses up-to-speed and online. If you’d like to tap into this success for your business alike, get in touch with one of our AWS-qualified experts today to learn how we can assist you.

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Anchor Joins AWS Service Delivery Program: Amazon EC2 for Windows Server

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/10/anchor-joins-aws-service-delivery-program-amazon-ec2-for-windows-server/

We are excited to announce that Anchor has joined the Amazon EC2 for Windows Service Delivery Program (SPD). This new SDP classification complements an expanding portfolio of AWS certifications, substantiating our commitment to both our AWS partnership and enabling the cloud for Australian businesses.

The AWS Service Delivery Program acknowledges select partners within the AWS Partner Network (APN) who have demonstrated technical proficiency across specialised solution areas. Achieving SDP status involves a stringent validation process to certify a deep understanding of, and adherence to, AWS architectural best practices. 

Amazon EC2 for Windows Server Partners are certified for delivering Windows Server environments on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). They are recommended by AWS for managing secure, reliable, and high-performance environments for deploying Windows-based applications and workloads. 

As part of the validation process for this competency, Anchor was required to demonstrate proven customer success through real customer engagement to validate that we had the technical proficiency and resources to help customers migrate, manage, or deploy Microsoft Workloads to AWS.

This AWS SDP reinforces Anchors expertise in helping businesses both modernise and future-proof legacy windows applications by replatforming onto AWS Cloud. 

“Our new SDP status for Amazon EC2 for Windows provides our customers with the highest level of confidence in our technical aptitude and alignment to AWS best practices.” – Josh Chiswell, Director of Architecture and Professional Services, APAC, Anchor Systems.

The proficiency also provides exclusive access to service-specific funding programs which partners can pass on to customers. If your business is looking to modernise or replatform old windows workloads, contact our cloud consultants for a complimentary cloud assessment.

 

Why Anchor? We exist to help SMBs and emerging enterprises who need managed AWS and cloud engineering services. Anchor enables the cloud by deeply engaging with your business. We architect, deploy, run and optimise cloud workloads and advocate for cloud best practices. Anchor’s team of certified engineers can support your workloads in three different time zones with 24x7x365 coverage from Sydney.

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Our Top 4 Favorite Google Chrome DevTools Tips & Tricks

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/10/our-top-4-favorite-google-chrome-devtools-tips-tricks/

Welcome to the final installation of our 3-part series on Google Chrome’s DevTools. In part 1 and part 2, we explored an introduction to using DevTools, as well as how you can use it to diagnose SSL and security issues on your site. In the third and final part of our DevTools series, we will be sharing our 4 favourite useful tips and tricks to help you achieve a variety of useful and efficient tasks with DevTools, without ever leaving your website!

Clearing All Site Data

Perhaps one of the most frustrating things when building your website, is the occasional menace that is browser caching. If you’ve put a lot of time into building websites, you probably know the feeling of making a change and then wondering why your site still shows the old page after you refresh. But even further to that, there can be any number of other reasons why you may need to clear all of your site data. Commonly, one might be inclined to just flush all cookies and cache settings in their browser, wiping their history from every website. This can lead to being suddenly logged out of all of your usual haunts – a frustrating inconvenience if you’re ever in a hurry to get something done.

Thankfully, DevTools has a handy little tool that allows you to clear all data related to the site that you’re currently on, without wiping anything else.

  1. Open up DevTools
  2. Click on the “Application” tab. If you can’t see it, just increase the width of your DevTools or click the arrow to view all available tabs.
  3. Click on the “Clear storage” tab under the “Application” heading.
  4. You will see how much local disk usage that specific website is taking up on your computer. To clear it all, just click on the “Clear site data” button.

That’s it! Your cache, cookies, and all other associated data for that website will be wiped out, without losing cached data for any other website.

Testing Device Responsiveness

In today’s world of websites, mobile devices make up more than half of all traffic to websites. That means that it’s more important than ever to ensure your website is fully responsive and looking sharp across all devices, not just desktop computers. Chrome DevTools has an incredibly useful tool to allow you to view your website as if you were viewing it on a mobile device.

  1. Open up DevTools.
  2. Click the “Toggle device toolbar” button on the top left corner. It looks like a tablet and mobile device. Alternatively, press Ctrl + Shift + M on Windows.
  3. At the top of your screen you should now see a dropdown of available devices to pick from, such as iPhone X. Selecting a device will adjust your screen’s ratio to that of the selected device.

Much easier than sneaking down to the Apple store to test out your site on every model of iPhone or iPad, right?

Viewing Console Errors

Sometimes you may experience an error on your site, and not know where to look for more information. This is where DevTools’ Console tab can come in very handy. If you experience any form of error on your site, you can likely follow these steps to find a lead on what to do to solve it:

  1. Open up DevTools
  2. Select the “Console” tab
  3. If your console logged any errors, you can find them here. You may see a 403 error, or a 500 error, etc. The console will generally log extra information too.

If you follow the above steps and you see a 403 error, you then know your action was not completed due to a permissions issue – which can get you started on the right track to troubleshooting the issue. Whatever the error(s) may be, there is usually a plethora of information available on potential solutions by individually researching those error codes or phrases on Google or your search engine of choice.

Edit Any Text On The Page

While you can right-click on text and choose “inspect element”, and then modify text that way, this alternative method allows you to modify any text on a website as if you were editing a regular document or a photoshop file, etc.

  1. Open up DevTools
  2. Go to the “Console” tab
  3. Copy and paste the following into the console and hit enter:
    1. document.designMode=”on”

Once that’s done, you can select any text on your page and edit it. This is actually one of the more fun DevTools features, and it can make testing text changes on your site an absolute breeze.

Conclusion

This concludes our entire DevTools series! We hope you’ve enjoyed it and maybe picked up a few new tools along the way. Our series only really scratches the surface of what DevTools can be used for, but we hope this has offered a useful introduction to some of the types of things you can accomplish. If you want to keep learning, be sure to head over to Google’s Chrome DevTools documentation for so much more!

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Diagnosing Security Issues with Google Chrome’s DevTools

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/10/diagnosing-security-issues-with-google-chromes-devtools/

Welcome to part 2 of our 3 part series on delving into some of the most useful features and functions of Google Chrome’s DevTools. In part 1, we went over a brief introduction of DevTools, plus some minor customisations. In this part 2, we’ll be taking a look into the security panel section of DevTools, including some of the different things you can look at when diagnosing a website or application for security and SSL issues.

The Security Panel

One of Chrome’s most helpful features has to be the security panel. To begin, visit any website through Google Chrome and open up DevTools, then select “Security” from the list of tabs at the top. If you can’t see it, you may need to click the two arrows to display more options or increase the width of DevTools.

Inspecting Your SSL Certificate

When we talk about security on websites, one of the first things that we usually would consider is the presence of an SSL certificate. The security tab allows us to inspect the website’s SSL certificate, which can have many practical uses. For example, when you visit your website, you may see a concerning red “Unsafe” warning. If you suspect that that may be something to do with your SSL certificate, it’s very likely that you’re correct. The problem is, the issue with your SSL certificate could be any number of things. It may be expired, revoked, or maybe no SSL certificate exists at all. This is where DevTools can come in handy. With the Security tab open, go ahead and click “View certificate” to inspect your SSL certificate. In doing so, you will be able to see what domain the SSL has been issued to, what certificate authority it was issued by, and its expiration date – among various other details, such as viewing the full certification path.

For insecure or SSL warnings, viewing your SSL certificate is the perfect first step in the troubleshooting process.

Diagnosing Mixed Content

Sometimes your website may show as insecure, and not have a green padlock in your address bar. You may have checked your SSL certificate is valid using the method above, and everything is all well and good there, but your site is still not displaying a padlock. This can be due to what’s called mixed content. Put simply; mixed content means that your website itself is configured to load over HTTPS://, but some resources (scripts, images, etc) on your website are set to HTTP://. For a website to show as fully secure, all resources must be served over HTTPS://, and your website’s URL must also be configured to load as HTTPS://.

Any resources that are not loading securely are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, whereby a malicious actor can intercept data sent through your website, potentially leaking private information. This is doubly important for eCommerce sites or any sites handling personal information, and why it’s so important to ensure that your website is fully secure, not to mention increasing users’ trust in your website.

To assist in diagnosing mixed content, head back into the security tab again. Once you have that open, go ahead and refresh the website that you’re diagnosing. If there are any non-secure resources on the page, the panel on the left-hand side will list them. Secure resources will be green, and those non-secure will be red. Oftentimes this can be one or two images with an HTTP:// URL. Whatever the case, this is one of the easiest ways to diagnose what’s preventing your site from gaining a green padlock. Once you have a list of which content is insecure, you can go ahead and manually adjust those issues on your website.

There are always sites like “Why No Padlock?” that effectively do the same thing as the steps listed above, but the beauty of DevTools is that it is one tool that can do it all for you, without having to leave your website.

Conclusion

This concludes part 2 of our 3-part DevTools series! As always, be sure to head over to Google’s Chrome DevTools documentation for further information on everything discussed here.

We hope that this has helped you gain some insight into how you might practically use DevTools when troubleshooting security and SSL issues on your own site. Now that you’re familiar with the basics of the security panel stay tuned for part 3 where we will get stuck into some of the most useful DevTools tips and tricks of all.

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An Introduction To Getting Started with Google Chrome’s DevTools

Post Syndicated from Andy Haine original https://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2020/10/an-introduction-to-getting-started-with-google-chromes-devtools/

Whether you’re a cloud administrator or developer, having a strong arsenal of dev tools under your belt will help to make your everyday tasks and website or application maintenance a lot more efficient.

One of the tools our developers use every day to assist our clients is Chrome’s Devtools. Whether you work on websites or applications for your own clients, or you manage your own company’s assets, Devtools is definitely worth spending the time to get to know. From style and design to troubleshooting technical issues, you would be hard-pressed to find such an effective tool for both.

Whether you already use Chrome’s DevTools on a daily basis, or you’re yet to discover its power and functionality, we hope we can show you something new in our 3-part DevTools series! In part 1 of this series, we will be giving you a brief introduction to DevTools. In part 2, we will cover diagnosing security issues using DevTools. Finally, in part 3, we’ll go over some of the more useful tips and tricks that you can use to enhance your workflow.

While in this series, we will be using Chrome’s DevTools, most of this advice also applies to other popular browser’s developer tools, such as Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox. Although the functionality and location of the tools will differ, doing a quick Google search should help you to dig up anything you’re after.

An Introduction to Chrome DevTools

Chrome DevTools, also known as Chrome Developer tools, is a set of tools built into the Chrome browser to assist web/application developers and novice users alike. Some of the things it can be used for includes, but is not limited to:

  • Debugging and troubleshooting errors
  • Editing on the fly
  • Adjusting/testing styling (CSS) before making live changes
  • Emulating different network speeds (like 3G) to determine load times on slower networks
  • Testing responsiveness across different devices
  • Performance auditing to ensure your website or application is fast and well optimised

All of the above features can greatly enhance productivity when you’re building or editing, whether you’re a professional developer or a hobbyist looking to build your first site or application.

Chrome DevTools has been around for a long time (since Chrome’s initial release), but it’s a tool that has been continuously worked on and improved since its beginnings. It is now extremely feature-rich, and still being improved every day. Keep in mind; the above features are only a very brief overview of all of the functionality DevTools has to offer. In this series, we’ll get you comfortably acquainted with DevTools, but you can additionally find very in-depth documentation over at Google’s DevTools site here, where they provide breakdowns of every feature.

How to open Chrome DevTools

There are a few different ways that you can access DevTools in your Chrome browser.

  1. Open DevTools by right-clicking on anything within the browser page, and select the “Inspect” button. This will open DevTools and jump to the specific element that you selected.
  2. Another method is via the Chrome browser menu. Simply go to the top right corner and click the three dots > More tools > Developer tools.
  3. If you prefer hotkeys, you can open DevTools by doing either of the following, depending on your operating system:

Windows = F12 or Ctrl + shift + I

Mac = Cmd + Opt + I

Customising your Environment

Now that you know what DevTools is and how to open it, it’s worth spending a little bit of time customising DevTools to your own personal preferences.

To begin with, DevTools has a built-in dark mode. When you’re looking at code or a lot of small text all the time, using a dark theme can greatly help to reduce eye strain. Enabling dark mode can be done by following the instructions below:

  1. Open up DevTools using your preferred method above
  2. Once you’re in, click the settings cog on the top right to open up the DevTools settings panel
  3. Under the ‘Appearance’ heading, adjust the ‘Theme’ to ‘Dark’

You may wish to spend some time exploring the remainder of the preferences section of DevTools, as there are a lot of layout and functionality customisations available.

Conclusion

This concludes part 1 of our 3 part DevTools series. We hope that this has been a useful and informative introduction to getting started using DevTools for your own project! Now that you’re familiar with the basics stay tuned for part 2 where we will show you how you can diagnose basic security issues – and more!

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