Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform
As businesses shift towards more of a DevOps focused software development methodology, tools that help drive productivity and increase development efficiencies are becoming more and more essential to have. Some tools necessary when shifting methodologies towards DevOps include tools that support containers, microservices, continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD), reliability, monitoring, logging, security, infrastructure-as-code and…
Integrate Your On-Premises Data Center Using AWS Storage Gateway
As more organizations take a hybrid cloud approach with a mix of both on-premises resources and some public cloud resources, it is becoming increasingly important to seamlessly bridge the two environments together. Whether organizations want to move their backups to the cloud or want to shift their on-premises storage to cloud-backed file shares or want…
New Services from AWS to Benefit All Customers
All organizations using AWS are using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to govern access to AWS and many of them are also using Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) for compute resources. Recently at its annual re:Invent conference, AWS announced a few features for both IAM and EC2 that can allow organizations to better analyze…
Use AWS? Then Protect AWS
Amazon Web Services has several storage services within its public cloud platform which thousands of customers are taking advantage of every day. They have Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), Simple Storage Service (S3), Glacier, Storage Gateway and much more. As organizations move more and more of their workloads to AWS, their data…
Tape Killer: AWS Glacier Deep Archive
Gone are the days of slow access speeds, gone are the days of expensive, specialized hardware and gone are the days of dealing with media file incompatibilities. At AWS re:Invent 2018, during his largely anticipated keynote in front of thousands of AWS users, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced the tape killer. What he was referring…
Optimize Your Microservices Experience with Istio
Istio is an open source service mesh architecture, designed in partnership with Google, IBM, and Lyft, that provides a way to connect, manage, and secure microservices. Although a microservices architecture is not a new concept, it brings many benefits to application developers. Some of these benefits include the freedom to work with different languages and…
Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Exam: A Guide to Success!
Amazon Web Services is one of the leading public cloud service providers across the industry. Knowing this, it would be invaluable to stay up to date with their services and increase your value through their certification program. Having an idea of which areas to focus on and which resources are the most helpful will help…
Disaster Recovery and Cloud Migration with CloudEndure
CloudEndure is a SaaS company that provides solutions in both Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery. CloudEndure’s Live Migration assists organizations to migrate their applications to the cloud of their choice, with zero downtime and zero data loss. CloudEndure does this in the background with block-level continuous replication, allowing for no disruption to the business or…