--- title: Blog | Blue Matador | Blue Matador (7) description: We began with the goal of making monitoring truly proactive — not reactive. At Blue Matador, we provide peace of mind for DevOps professionals by enabling them to proactively monitor their infrastructure for the first time. (7) --- - ![Get AWS credits for your startup with AWS Activate](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/BM-Article-AWS-CloudWatch-101-feature4.jpg "Get AWS credits for your startup with AWS Activate") # Get AWS credits for your startup with AWS Activate [View Post](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/what-is-aws-activate) ### Topics - Select a Topic ** ### Stay up to date ![Picture of Blue Matador](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/favicons/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png) # Blue Matador We began with the goal of making monitoring truly proactive — not reactive. At Blue Matador, we provide peace of mind for DevOps professionals by enabling them to proactively monitor their infrastructure for the first time. 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[ Continue Reading ](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/how-to-monitor-kubernetes-with-blue-matador) [![](https://www.bluematador.com/hubfs/How%20to%20deploy%20an%20app%20to%20AWS%20Getting%20started.jpg) ](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/how-to-deploy-an-app-to-aws-getting-started) [AWS](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/topic/aws) ##### [How to deploy an app to AWS: Getting started](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/how-to-deploy-an-app-to-aws-getting-started) By [Blue Matador](https://www.bluematador.com/blog/author/blue-matador) on April 21, 2020 Launching a production app onto the cloud is a big task with a ton of tiny sub-tasks, and it can all be pretty overwhelming. We're here for you. We've launched an app ourselves (Blue... 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