Confused about the myriad of AWS Data Storage Options? In this post we take a look at the whole range of AWS Storage services, and the different types of storage available. By the end of the article you should know your EBS from your EFS and know which AWS storage services are right for your particular use case. But before we dive into AWS cloud storage options, let’s first take a look… Read More »A Complete Guide to AWS Storage Services
Solution providers have urged Amazon Web Services to publicly explain how the cloud computing giant’s technology was used by the SolarWinds hackers in their campaign. “I do wonder whether AWS has made a judgment error in not coming out to publicly defend their position in this high-profile case with such far reaching consequences,” said Karl Robinson, director of London-based AWS managed services provider Logicata. “That, to me, could be more damaging… Read More »Logicata Comment: AWS Must Come Clean On Role In SolarWinds Hack
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… Read More »28 AWS Launches Announced by Andy Jassy at re:Invent 2020
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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’… Read More »AWS Control Tower: Everything you Need To Know
Correct use of AWS IAM is essential to ensure the security and integrity of workloads hosted in AWS – what are the IAM best practises?
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… Read More »AWS Service Level Agreement – What you need to know
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… Read More »ECS vS EKS – Which AWS Service is Right For You?
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… Read More »How to Change or Upgrade an EC2 Instance Type
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… Read More »Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is the favourite PaaS Kubernetes Orchestration Tool!