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28 AWS Launches Announced by Andy Jassy at re:Invent 2020

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Today, AWS CEO Andy Jassy launched the first online AWS re:Invent conference via live stream from Seattle.  With a lively 30 minute set from Zach Person, the online event kicked off on as much of a high as the Vegas conferences.  Awesome production quality as we’ve come to expect from AWS events.   Before getting to the announcements, Andy acknowledged the Black Lives Matter movement, and stated that the USA still has a long way to go in terms of the… Read More »28 AWS Launches Announced by Andy Jassy at re:Invent 2020

AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower: Everything you Need To Know

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You may have heard of AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations and AWS Service Catalog – but what are these services and how do they integrate with one another?  What are the benefits of leveraging Control Tower and the underlying services?  If you’re interested to learn more, please read on and we’ll answer these questions and more below. What is AWS Control Tower? AWS Control Tower automates the ‘ at scale’ build out of a multi account structure on AWS.  For… Read More »AWS Control Tower: Everything you Need To Know

AWS Service Level Agreement

AWS Service Level Agreement – What you need to know

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When looking to host your IT infrastructure and applications in the AWS cloud, Service Level Agreements are an important consideration – you need to ask yourself a number of questions before evaluating the AWS Service Level Agreement, including: What is the guaranteed uptime of the service or services that you wish to consume? What response time can I expect from the provider in the event of a problem with the service? How much downtime can I tolerate for from the… Read More »AWS Service Level Agreement – What you need to know

ECS vs EKS - Which is right for you?

ECS vS EKS – Which AWS Service is Right For You?

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ECS and EKS are both container orchestration services from AWS – in this post we take a look at ECS vs EKS to see which one will be more appropriate for your containerized workloads. Container adoption is on the rise – the technology has become popular due to it’s efficient resource utilisation and portability.  A container is essentially a software package which includes code, configurations and dependencies so that an application can be quickly launched and reliably run on any… Read More »ECS vS EKS – Which AWS Service is Right For You?

How to Change or Upgrade an EC2 Instance Type

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EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud, is Amazon Web Services IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offering – essentially it is a service for running virtual machines in the AWS cloud.  I wrote an earlier post about EC2 and all the different instance types titled AWS EC2 – Everything You Need To Know About EC2 Instances which touched on some of the pre-requisites for changing EC2 instance types – I’ll cover that again here and then take a deeper dive on how to… Read More »How to Change or Upgrade an EC2 Instance Type

Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is the favourite PaaS Kubernetes Orchestration Tool!

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The World is going crazy for containers and Kubernetes right now.  Container adoption is on the rise – according to the ‘Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud‘ report, containers are now mainstream, with 65% of respondents using Docker for containers, and 58% using Kubernetes: In addition to the significant level of adoption, 51% of respondents said that increasing the use of containers was one of their top cloud initiatives for 2020 – in fact this was the 3rd ranked cloud… Read More »Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is the favourite PaaS Kubernetes Orchestration Tool!

AWS Snowball: What Does Amazon’s Import/Export Appliance Cost?

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AWS Import Export with Snowball Originally a single device used for migrating data into AWS, Snowball is now part of the AWS Snow family of services used for both speeding up data import and export to and from AWS, and for secure edge computing. The AWS Snowball family includes: AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized AWS Snowmobile  The AWS Snow family can import and export exabytes of data into and out of AWS.  Snow family devices… Read More »AWS Snowball: What Does Amazon’s Import/Export Appliance Cost?

Cloud Computing Scalability

Scalability in Cloud Computing & Why We Love AWS

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In this post we’ll take a look at one of the key benefits of Cloud Computing – Scalability.  We’ll explore the different scaling options available for your cloud based workloads, and then we’ll take a look at specific services in AWS which can help you to achieve scalability for your AWS hosted applications.   Whether you’re starting out with a single instance and hoping to grow, or you have a globally distributed application, you always need to be factoring scalability into… Read More »Scalability in Cloud Computing & Why We Love AWS