Instana Inc., developer of an artificial intelligence-based monitoring tool for containerized microservice-based applications, has extended its ready to a broad range of Amazon Web Services Inc. products, including the Lambda serverless computing platform.

Serverless computing abstracts information technology infrastructure away from applications, enabling developers to focus on function rather than server configurations. Applications are assembled from function-specific components that are spun up and down only as needed, there reducing server time and operational costs.

Instana, which raised $20 million last fall, uses machine learning to manage the complex web of containers and microservices that increasingly make up modern applications. Those applications change constantly by their nature, and when combined with the transient nature of containers, they make the task of forecasting performance and managing resources more complex than it was in the days of static, vertically integrated applications.

Instana continuously and automatically discovers the configuration, performance and health information for each platform and application performance across the entire environment, including those using Lambda. Instana is also extending its monitoring sensors to include Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service, SQS middleware, RDS relational database, Dynamo NoSQL database and Kinesis streaming optimization platform.

The platform enables users to visualize infrastructure and services and optimize application and service delivery by adjusting resource allocations and identifying services that aren’t performing correctly. With the addition of Lambda support, Instana can now also monitor code running in the Amazon function-as-a-service platform, which enables developers to build, run and manage applications without also building and maintaining infrastructure. The company said this means developers can apply DevOps practices to any platform they choose.

Instana prices its infrastructure monitoring service at $10 per host per month and its application performance monitoring service at $67 per host per month. The company did not say if those prices would change with the expanded AWS support.

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