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Author: Richard Anton
Richard is a Principal Software Development Engineer at AWS. He has been developing software for 25+ years and has spent the last 11 years working on the development and operations of distributed systems at Amazon and Google as both a software engineer and site reliability engineer. Richard's focus is on improving the observability of distributed systems to improve the user experience of other engineers.
How AWS and Grafana Labs are scaling Cortex for the cloud
This post was co-authored by Jérôme Decq, Richard Anton, and Tom Wilkie. When we decided to offer a monitoring solution purpose-built for containers users, supporting Prometheus use-case patterns quickly became necessary. However, using Prometheus at cloud scale is difficult. We studied different architectures such as Prometheus plus a dedicated time series database, Thanos, and Cortex. […]