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  So finally your company have decided for going agile, you are working as QA engineer in same or different projects for significant amount of time, you know this product well but suddenly everyone is talking about cross functional teams or no QA in agile teams. Now you are in a situation you were never before , you started thinking about moving to some other team or job change. You fear, how you will survive in fast paced development where requirement is changing every few days & you need to test this code base with same quality, this is totally opposite to legacy waterfall system where you got code & get plenty of time to test it. Moreover you & other teammates started questioning QA role in agile team ? No one likes change and you are no exception to it, so yo start fearing, felt insecure & hating agile.  In actual you no need to worry, QA is essential part of Scrum teams, ideally scrum teams are cross functional teams where one person can code , test & ...

CloudWatch - Focuses on the activity of AWS services and resources, reporting on their health and performance. You can collect & track metrics . You can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS CloudTrail, Route 53, and other sources. CloudWatch Logs enables you to centralize the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services that you use, in a single, highly scalable service. You can then easily view them, search them for specific error codes or patterns, filter them based on specific fields, or archive them securely for future analysis. By default, logs are kept indefinitely and never expire. You can adjust the retention policy for each log group, keeping the indefinite retention, or choosing a retention periods between 10 years and one day. CloudTrails – Who is doing what in AWS . It is a log of all actions that have taken place inside your AWS environment. AWS Cloud...

  You must have worked or still working in an organization who have a dedicated department for networking , maintenance of infrastructure & servers etc. With shift of technology organizations are moving from On-premise infrastructure to cloud base offerings. In fact large number of organizations running their application on cloud. Netflix , Instagram, Pinterest, Dropbox are some example of companies relaying on cloud for their operations. Different organizations choose different type of cloud computing models based on their requirements. Some create their own cloud (Private Cloud) like Facebook, Some remain in Public Cloud (Pinterest) , some adhere to hybrid cloud like Google which uses Private cloud & public cloud both. Now lets talk about what are different type if clouds. Public Cloud - A public cloud environment is owned & managed by a commercial cloud service provider. These provider leverage computing, network , storage over pay per use model, means you need to pa...