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Confused about AI agents? Explore the 6 key types—from simple reflex bots to learning and hierarchical agents—and how they’re transforming industries like healthcare, energy, and customer support.

What’s the difference between AI agents and Agentic AI? This blog post breaks it down and shows how AWS Bedrock is enabling the next wave of intelligent automation.

Discover how Amazon Q Business uses generative AI to eliminate data silos, boost productivity, and deliver up to 10X ROI for enterprise teams.

Discover how Amazon Q Business uses GenAI to supercharge knowledge sharing, eliminate silos, and boost productivity—while keeping your data secure and your ROI in check.

Optimize your cloud spending in 2025 with our comprehensive guide to cloud cost optimization. Learn about AWS cost optimization, right-sizing, autoscaling, serverless technologies, and other key strategies to control your cloud budget.

OpsGuru is proud to announce that we have achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Small and Medium Business Competency. This specialization recognizes OpsGuru as an AWS Partner with a unique focus on small and medium-sized customers (SMBs).

Optimize your cloud spending in 2025 with our comprehensive guide to cloud cost optimization. Learn about AWS cost optimization, right-sizing, autoscaling, serverless technologies, and other key strategies to control your cloud budget.

Discover DeepSeek, the AI game changer, and learn how to use it on AWS. This simplified guide explains DeepSeek's benefits and how to get started.

We are proud to announce that OpsGuru, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, has been named the 2024 AWS Canada Regional Partner Award winner. This prestigious recognition, unveiled at AWS re:Invent, celebrates partners who drive innovation, collaboration, and business transformation using AWS technologies.

A provincial healthcare agency has a big mandate: broker healthcare and technology services to healthcare providers throughout its province. As the primary healthcare authority in the province, the organization's mandate is to coordinate regional healthcare services to ensure the efficient delivery of clinical services and bringing critical healthcare services closer to where people live.

The talent acquisition and recruitment industry is essential for building a company's workforce, focusing on efficiently and accurately matching candidates to roles. This process is time-sensitive, as delays can increase costs and lead to missed opportunities. Accurate matching is crucial to enhance productivity and reduce turnover, making it a key strategic function in competitive markets.

One of the most common discussions that happen when adopting Kubernetes is around autoscaling. You can autoscale your workloads horizontally or vertically, but the main challenge has always been the nodes.

Why disaster recovery is an increasingly critical component of an organization's security posture.

OpsGuru receives AWS Canada Migration & Modernization Partner of the Year Award

In the tech industry, where women often face significant barriers and remain underrepresented in leadership roles, OpsGuru is proud to be an organization that challenges this norm, embracing the principles of equality, equity, and inclusion. We're excited to spotlight Mency Woo, OpsGuru’s co-founder and VP of Enterprise Transformation, who provides invaluable guidance for women aspiring to excel in the cloud sector.

In an earlier post we discussed the advent of GitOps, what it is and why it has become so popular. In this post we are going to take a look into a few GitOps offerings. While the first GitOps product has been Weaveworks Cloud in 2017 (if memory serves me right), the landscape has since evolved.

There seems to have been a lot of talk about GitOps just recently. This impression is certainly reinforced by the sessions and booths during KubeCon San Diego late 2019. Regardless of the discipline or services, GitOps was the keyword that was constantly repeated.

In the first part of our two-part post on the current state of Kubernetes in AWS, we discussed how Kubernetes can help you handle stateful workloads with persistent data storage and standardize your application and data engineering approaches.

Data lakes have become the de-facto standard for Enterprises and Corporations looking to take advantage of their existing Data.

OpsGuru has been awarded the 2021 “AWS Consulting Partner of the Year” for Canada

As someone who works with AWS on a day-to-day basis, It’s important to stay up to date with all the changes and new features of the different services on the platform. That’s how one recent announcement caught my eye - The new capability of local testing of ECS.

The most successful businesses in today’s fast-changing, digitally fueled society are those who take advantage of innovation and are data-driven. However, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) typically have fewer resources to fund the significant upfront investment that is often required to innovate, putting them at a disadvantage.

Whether you work in government, education, non-profit, or healthcare, we know that your public sector organization is unique - and so are its challenges, from budgetary restrictions to significant governance, security and compliance requirements.

OpsGuru’s whitepaper “Building a SaaS Offering on AWS” has been released, as OpsGuru celebrates being a launch partner of the AWS SaaS Competency. Read more on how to access the whitepaper!

OpsGuru is distinguished as a launch partner of Professional Services on the AWS Marketplace, to make OpsGuru services procurable through AWS billing arrangements.

In part 1 of this series, we answered the question of WHY Open Source components are often an attractive option when building a data lake of any significant size. In this second installment, we describe HOW to cost-effectively build a data lake out of Open Source components.

Fornova offers businesses in the hospitality industry online monitoring and optimization of performance and distribution of their inventory. Founded in 2010, Fornova now serves over 15,000 hotels globally and has over 100 employees with offices across the globe in London, Israel, Amsterdam and New York.

Nivi empowers women to connect with reproductive healthcare providers in ways that are immediate, personal, and always accessible from multiple geographic locations. When a user contacts “askNivi”, the Nivi platform automatically identifies her intent and routes her to the best provider.

Rival Technologies (Rival) develops chat, voice and video solutions that enable global brands to understand the accurate attitudes, opinions and preferences of their target audience.

Setoo's award-winning insurance-as-a-service platform empowers e-businesses (such as online travel agents, accommodations, ticket sellers, e-commerce) to independently build and distribute personalized, claims-free insurance products. The products are integrated directly into the customer journey to provide a seamless purchasing experience.

[Emedgene](https://www.emedgene.com/) is on a mission to unlock genomic insights for the world’s health organizations by providing data-driven AI solutions for genomic diagnostics and discovery at scale. They work with leading healthcare and life sciences organizations to power precision medicine programs, enable high throughput diagnostics, and accelerate research pace.

FoodX provides scalable end-to-end grocery software providing online delivery optimization solutions for grocers. Their platform evolved from a local and organic online grocery company to an award-winning global eGrocery Management Solution. FoodX technology optimizes the fulfilment and delivery management, enabling grocers to profitably deliver fresh food from farm to fridge with less overall waste.

Learn how OpsGuru helped a global beverage distributor migrate to AWS fast and efficiently using the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).

eCommerce businesses are challenged with growth in a fast-moving, complex, ever-competitive environment. Based in Kelowna, BC, Uncoil offers brands a secret weapon to achieve profitable growth by transforming disparate, disconnected, complex data into real-time insights via proprietary models leveraging ML/AI-driven tools.

Learn how the Amazon EKS-based solution designed by OpsGuru supported the containerization of Cocoflo’s AWS environment, moving the company one step closer to executing its goal of delivering community-centric solutions to municipalities.

Founded with the aim of simplifying vehicle inspection, Click-Ins introduces AI-driven automated technology that completely redefines its category. Helping insurance and car companies transition from manual procedures to fast and efficient fact-based processes, Click-Ins provides a user experience that is both simpler and more reliable, for all parties involved. To achieve the highest level of transparency and certainty, Click-Ins has developed a hybrid approach to AI.

Bosa Development has been a leader in the real estate industry in Western Canada and the United States for over four decades. With headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bosa Development combines functionality and aesthetic excellence to develop dynamic, sustainable, mixed-used environments that energize neighbourhoods and inspire their citizens.

Learn how OpsGuru helped Authomize with a rapid launch of their Kubernetes-based application platform for complex deployments in AWS while meeting their customers' security and compliance requirements.

Alida, a leader in experience management, needed to modernize an application running on legacy architecture to meet its customers' growing data demands. They worked with OpsGuru to replatform the application and migrate the data to AWS Cloud using containerization and microservices. The solution improved scalability and performance, with 24 times faster access to data. The partnership model through AWS helped Alida meet its technical and business goals, and innovate faster.

Discover how OpsGuru helped Edsembli achieve modernization and business growth by migrating to AWS, optimizing cost and performance, providing better control over scaling, and adopting DevOps practices for agility.

This client is a company that leverages AI to generate photos for use in the fashion industry. They unite a team of experts with the perfect combination of skills to revolutionize fashion visuals. With vast experience in computer vision, AI, media, and usable enterprise products, they are committed to transforming the fashion industry through the use of synthetic media.

Numeris' journey from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud with AWS and OpsGuru demonstrates the power of partnership, innovation, and customer-focused technology. The combination of resilient infrastructure, empowered teams, and cloud-powered growth positions Numeris for a bright future in the data industry.

Perfect is developing a cutting-edge AI and Big Data solution that is targeting the recruitment market. They are a team of seasoned professionals both in technology and the human resources space, coming from industry-leading companies, and backed by top investors from the local ecosystem. Their solution allows the end-user to instantly connect with the next-best-hire through features that find candidates who are most likely to join the company, and use contextual data to start meaningful conversations that stand out from the noise.

OpsGuru was engaged to design, implement and operate a multi-regional platform on AWS, which would host mission-critcial ERP systems and potentially other assets and support workloads to be operated using a standardized playbook.

Generative AI (GenAI) is being increasingly used to improve business processes, including interpreting product feedback from thousands of customers and providing actionable insights for global brand leaders. Alida, a global leader in experience management and community-oriented research, faces the challenge of accurately interpreting feedback. While they employ several survey methods and analysis techniques, the traditional methods fall short in terms of speed, accuracy, and labor intensity

Learn how OpsGuru helped Trimac smooth the roadmap to cloud adoption and enabled Trimac to continue accelerating its journey to a cloud-native environment.

For LiveSwitch Inc. and its customers, network quality and reliability are everything.  LiveSwitch delivers live video streaming to people around the world. It shares moments from news-breaking scoops to the game changers in sports. It also enables high-quality digital patient visits and remote learning.

The mining industry is evolving faster than ever. Learn how mining companies take advantage of cloud technologies to evolve and innovate.

Learn the common design patterns for building a SaaS product on AWS to accelerate your time-to-market.

The decision to commit your public sector organization to the cloud is a big move but can be successfully achieved by following six essential steps to migration.

Learn how AWS and OpsGuru can help accelerate your migration, so you achieve results faster.

A global software provider based in Canada is revolutionizing asset management with cutting-edge visual intelligence solutions. Their flagship product empowers capital-intensive industries to digitally transform operations with unlimited, data-enriched 2D and 3D visualizations. By bringing physical assets online, the company enables teams to improve productivity, collaborate seamlessly, and manage risk from anywhere, ensuring business continuity and operational efficiency.

This financial technology company specializes in providing core banking solutions. With over 30 years of experience, it offers platforms for loans, mortgages, term deposits, investments, and retail banking alongside an API for open banking integrations. Committed to modernizing the financial services sector, the company sought to transition from traditional infrastructure to a more scalable and cost-efficient cloud environment to meet the industry's evolving needs.

This purpose-driven engagement platform provides solutions that power B2B social recognition, loyalty, rewards, and incentive programs. Its key offerings include a customizable engagement solution for enterprises and SMBs, a platform providing global access to millions of global curated rewards, and a free shop-and-save program for employers. The company is committed to sustainability through its mission to plant millions of trees annually to combat climate change.

OpsGuru is proud to announce that we have achieved the AWS Generative AI Competency, further solidifying its position as an AWS Premier Partner and a leader in Generative AI solutions.

OpsGuru is pleased announce the promotion of our EVP and CFO, Ryan Smyth, to the role of President and CEO

OpsGuru is proud to announce that it has achieved the Amazon API Gateway Service Delivery designation.

OpsGuru is proud to announce that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery designation for AWS Lambda.

Discover the power of AWS Amazon Inspector in strengthening container security within the CI/CD pipeline and how this tool seamlessly integrates with existing systems like Jenkins and TeamCity.

Learn how to supercharge customer experiences using Generative AI and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock.

Learn how to use AWS Step Functions and Generative AI to accelerate your social media game.

OpsGuru announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Resilience Services Competency in the Core Resilience category.

In today's digital era, data sovereignty is an essential concept that businesses must understand to ensure regulatory compliance and protect sensitive information.

OpsGuru is incredibly proud to have an AWS-elite expert on its staff.

Strong partners can be a differentiator when embarking on a digital transformation. Here’s how OpsGuru supported Portfolio+ with cloud transformation.

While cost optimization remains a crucial element of any business strategy, it's equally imperative to focus on business growth. This is particularly true in today's rapidly changing operating environment. A variety of factors - including geopolitical, economic, and cultural considerations - can greatly influence business operations. Successfully managing these influences and adjusting accordingly can be the difference between mediocrity and genuine success.

Cloud services are primarily based on the pay-as-you-go model and, therefore, can fluctuate significantly based on usage.

It is critical to ensure that KPIs for cloud adoption are aligned with your cloud adoption goals.

OpsGuru is excited to announce it is a recipient of a 2023 Canadian AWS Partner Award, recognizing leaders playing a key role in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Canada.

An expanded multi-year agreement with AWS furthers OpsGuru’s cloud solution capabilities and service offerings to help Canadian companies accelerate digital transformation.

When it comes to orchestrating containerized workloads, there are several options in the market, with [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io) being the most adopted and sought-after solution.

OpsGuru announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon OpenSearch Service

OpsGuru announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

**OpsGuru recognized as Canada’s leader in AWS cloud solutions, with world-class AWS Premier Partner Status**

Mency Woo, OpsGuru’s VP, Enterprise Transformation was inducted into the Channel Daily News Women in the Channel Hall of Fame at the annual Canadian Women in the IT Channel Recognition Luncheon.

OpsGuru has been recognized as an Amazon Web Service (AWS) Transfer Family Service Delivery Launch Partner.

OpsGuru, a leading cloud modernization consultancy, announces their partnership with House of Brick, a leading specialist in optimizing software licensing costs, to help customers manage the risk of migrating and modernizing operationally critical Oracle databases on AWS.

In partnership with Women in Tech World, OpsGuru is honoured to share the story of five very talented women in the cloud industry.

We are proud to announce that we have been recognized as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Launch Networking Competency Partner. This achievement reflects OpsGuru’s advanced technical validation, deep industry experience, and proven customer success in AWS Networking technologies and best practices.

Are you considering AWS cloud migration? There are 5 key steps you should follow and the challenges you'll need to overcome to take full advantage of AWS.

Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) are becoming part of the standard pattern for delivering application code into production environments.

OpsGuru Announces Expansion to Central and Eastern Canada and Welcomes Adam Chandani as VP, Sales

OpsGuru announces acquisition by Carbon60, continuing operations as OpsGuru. Today, Carbon60, a leading managed cloud hosting service provider, announced the acquisition of OpsGuru, Canada's fastest-growing multi-cloud and DevOps consultancy. This acquisition makes the combined company the preeminent Canadian multi-cloud transformation and managed services organization.

OpsGuru has achieved **AWS DevOps Competency**, recognizing its CI/CD practice and expertise in infrastructure automation and configuration management

OpsGuru has achieved the **AWS Migration Competency**, validating the team's expertise in helping businesses migrate and modernize workloads.

Across the OpsGuru team, we have assisted several organizations in adopting service mesh technology. Over the course of these projects, we have identified 3 DevOps capabilities that are essential to the success of service mesh adoption...

OpsGuru has partnered with Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster member Food-X Technologies to continue to enhance its eGrocery Management Solution (eGMS) to scale safe food delivery for retailers.

This is the second post in our Service Mesh series. The first post introduced service meshes at a high level, this one will drill down further into common service mesh features and the problems they address. Understanding the problems addressed by a service mesh is key to determining their suitability for your systems.

"Service Mesh" may be one of the most hyped buzzwords in the Cloud Native space, but what is a Service Mesh and how do you know if your team needs one? In this post, OpsGuru will share some high-level insights in hopes of bringing you closer to considering service mesh adoption for your organization.

Cloud-native is a word that is widely heard but not frequently explained. Here is OpsGuru's interpretation of the cloud-native

Today OpsGuru announces that we have achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SaaS Competency. We are also honoured to be the only Canadian Launch Partner of the AWS SaaS Competency.

In previous posts we have looked at the popularity of GitOps and a number of tools available to implement GitOps. Among the tools there are GitHub Actions. Given the popularity of GitHub in both enterprises and open-sourced communities, let’s walk through how to set up the new feature; GitHub Actions.

We have explored earlier in this post on a number of points to consider in setting up a multi-tenant Amazon EKS cluster. However, while it is important to safeguard multi-tenancy on the application cluster, it is equally important -- in fact, arguably more so -- to safeguard multi-tenancy for data stores. AWS offers a

OpsGuru prides itself in heavy use of cloud-native technology, and Kubernetes is often the primary platform of choice to run containerized workloads. In this blog we discuss using name space, network policies, Integrating AWS IAM to EKS cluster/workloads, isolation techniques and much more.

Lots of mid-size companies and Enterprises want to leverage the Cloud for their Data Processing requirements. But in reality migrating a production, Petabyte scale, multi-component Data Processing pipeline from on-prem to the Cloud can be a nightmare.

Etcd is a distributed, consistent and highly-available key value store used as the Kubernetes backing store for all cluster data, making it a core component of every K8s deployment. Due to its central role etcd may contain sensitive information related to access of the deployed services and their associated components,