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Shane Carragher

Author: Shane Carragher

Shane is a Snr. Cloud Support Engineer and CloudWatch SME based in Dublin. He loves to develop his knowledge in all thing Monitoring and Observability and helping customers strengthen their Observability posture in the Cloud. In his spare time, Shane loves getting outdoors, going to the Gym and watching re-runs of The Sopranos.

Using the unified CloudWatch Agent to send traces to AWS X-Ray

Today, applications are more distributed than ever before and they no longer run in isolation. This is especially the case when utilizing  Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). A distributed workload or system is one that encompasses multiple small independent components, all working together to complete a task or job. […]