As more companies turn to the cloud to host critical business applications, mass cloud adoption brings with it a new set of challenges.

If you have adopted a micro-services approach to application development, you'll understand the benefits of diagrams showing the status and connections of the configured services.

When you are building cloud based infrastructure or are handed a new account or existing project to manage, the very first thing you are likely to ask yourself is what does the infrastructure look like? What resources are running? Where are they running? What does the security look like?

Amazon Athena is a service that enables you to perform SQL queries on data held in amazon S3. There are no complex ETL pipelines to create which makes Athena perfect for anyone with SQL skills to analyse large amounts of data without having to extract and prepare data held in S3.

Auto scaling AWS resources in your cloud infrastructure protects the performance of your applications when they are placed under heavy traffic or processing loads.

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse solution from AWS that allows you to store and query large volumes of analytical data. It is fast and scalable providing a 10x performance lift over other data warehouses by using machine learning and parallel processing of queries against columnar storage held on very high performance disk.

When you are deploying cloud infrastructure to AWS, Azure or GCP you typically want to validate that everything went according to plan.