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GroundWork Releases Cloud Hub Amazon Connector

GroundWork announced improved Amazon Cloud support through GroundWork Cloud Hub Amazon Connector.

Available in the latest version of GroundWork Cloud Hub, this new connector is FREE up to 50 devices and is 36 percent cheaper compared to Amazon Cloud Watch.

GroundWork Cloud Hub is a Cloud monitoring solution that communicates with multiple public and private cloud platforms including OpenStack, Docker, VMware, KVM and RHEV-M. It runs as an independent application with the ability to operate on a separate machine from GroundWork Monitor for additional scalability and topological flexibility. Because Cloud Hub operates as an open standards-based, web services communication and open API, the new Cloud Hub Amazon Connector does not have to run on the Amazon Cloud.

“Hybrid clouds, using a combination of public clouds like Amazon plus a local private cloud, are becoming increasingly popular with GroundWork’s user base,” said David Dennis, VP of Marketing and Products for GroundWork. “Our updated Amazon Connector for Cloud Hub delivers hybrid cloud monitoring by providing expanded Amazon cloud metrics, at a reduced cost, while also monitoring your private cloud or other local data center devices.”

GroundWork Cloud Hub Amazon Connector enables users to:

- Access to over three-times as many Amazon metrics as provided by Cloud Watch

- Have unlimited custom metrics

- Have unlimited alarms

- More flexibility and better failure protection running outside or inside of Amazon

- Have unified monitoring of your on-premise IT with alongside your cloud

- Monitor application and OS for layers above the AWS instance

- Hybrid cloud Monitoring: monitor your OpenStack, Docker, VMware, KVM or other private cloud from the same point of view

- Integrate with ELK stack log analytics

- Assume Cloud Watch detailed monitoring, five custom metrics and five alarms

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GroundWork Releases Cloud Hub Amazon Connector

GroundWork announced improved Amazon Cloud support through GroundWork Cloud Hub Amazon Connector.

Available in the latest version of GroundWork Cloud Hub, this new connector is FREE up to 50 devices and is 36 percent cheaper compared to Amazon Cloud Watch.

GroundWork Cloud Hub is a Cloud monitoring solution that communicates with multiple public and private cloud platforms including OpenStack, Docker, VMware, KVM and RHEV-M. It runs as an independent application with the ability to operate on a separate machine from GroundWork Monitor for additional scalability and topological flexibility. Because Cloud Hub operates as an open standards-based, web services communication and open API, the new Cloud Hub Amazon Connector does not have to run on the Amazon Cloud.

“Hybrid clouds, using a combination of public clouds like Amazon plus a local private cloud, are becoming increasingly popular with GroundWork’s user base,” said David Dennis, VP of Marketing and Products for GroundWork. “Our updated Amazon Connector for Cloud Hub delivers hybrid cloud monitoring by providing expanded Amazon cloud metrics, at a reduced cost, while also monitoring your private cloud or other local data center devices.”

GroundWork Cloud Hub Amazon Connector enables users to:

- Access to over three-times as many Amazon metrics as provided by Cloud Watch

- Have unlimited custom metrics

- Have unlimited alarms

- More flexibility and better failure protection running outside or inside of Amazon

- Have unified monitoring of your on-premise IT with alongside your cloud

- Monitor application and OS for layers above the AWS instance

- Hybrid cloud Monitoring: monitor your OpenStack, Docker, VMware, KVM or other private cloud from the same point of view

- Integrate with ELK stack log analytics

- Assume Cloud Watch detailed monitoring, five custom metrics and five alarms

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For many B2B and B2C enterprise brands, technology isn't a core strength. Relying on overly complex architectures (like those that follow a pure MACH doctrine) has been flagged by industry leaders as a source of operational slowdown, creating bottlenecks that limit agility in volatile market conditions ...

FinOps champions crucial cross-departmental collaboration, uniting business, finance, technology and engineering leaders to demystify cloud expenses. Yet, too often, critical cost issues are softened into mere "recommendations" or "insights" — easy to ignore. But what if we adopted security's battle-tested strategy and reframed these as the urgent risks they truly are, demanding immediate action? ...

Two in three IT professionals now cite growing complexity as their top challenge — an urgent signal that the modernization curve may be getting too steep, according to the Rising to the Challenge survey from Checkmk ...

While IT leaders are becoming more comfortable and adept at balancing workloads across on-premises, colocation data centers and the public cloud, there's a key component missing: connectivity, according to the 2025 State of the Data Center Report from CoreSite ...

A perfect storm is brewing in cybersecurity — certificate lifespans shrinking to just 47 days while quantum computing threatens today's encryption. Organizations must embrace ephemeral trust and crypto-agility to survive this dual challenge ...

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 14, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses hybrid multi-cloud network observability... 

While companies adopt AI at a record pace, they also face the challenge of finding a smart and scalable way to manage its rapidly growing costs. This requires balancing the massive possibilities inherent in AI with the need to control cloud costs, aim for long-term profitability and optimize spending ...

Telecommunications is expanding at an unprecedented pace ... But progress brings complexity. As WanAware's 2025 Telecom Observability Benchmark Report reveals, many operators are discovering that modernization requires more than physical build outs and CapEx — it also demands the tools and insights to manage, secure, and optimize this fast-growing infrastructure in real time ...

As businesses increasingly rely on high-performance applications to deliver seamless user experiences, the demand for fast, reliable, and scalable data storage systems has never been greater. Redis — an open-source, in-memory data structure store — has emerged as a popular choice for use cases ranging from caching to real-time analytics. But with great performance comes the need for vigilant monitoring ...