Introduction Ansible is a powerful tool because it lets you handle many complicated tasks with minimal effort. Some time ago, I published running Ansible playbooks using Systems Manager blog when the first version of the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) document was released, which enabled support for Ansible. In that blog, Read more…
By Phil de Valence, Principal Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy says, “The main reasons that organizations are moving to the cloud are speed and agility.” Mainframes typically host core business processes and data. To stay competitive, customers have to quickly transform Read more…
IT administrators and DevOps engineers often perform routine operations to manage their cloud infrastructure, modern on-premises environment workloads, and applications. One such routine operation is the ability to manage Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, and virtual machines (VM) through a remote session. Several tasks such as application and server log Read more…
AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts, run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS Support cases. There Read more…
Encryption is a critical component of a defense-in-depth strategy, which is a security approach with a series of defensive mechanisms designed. It means if one security mechanism fails, there’s at least one more still operating. As more organizations look to operate faster and at scale, they need ways to meet Read more…
AWS EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed service that enables you to run Kubernetes on AWS without your own Kubernetes control plane. Let’s have a quick introduction to Amazon EKS! The widespread adoption of cloud computing and the positive interventions of technologies such as containers have revised application Read more…
AWS Config Rules allow customers to evaluate the configuration of resources against best practices and perform remediation when specified configuration policies are not being followed. Using AWS Config Conformance Packs, customers can create a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions in a single pack that can be deployed Read more…
By Jonathan Pape, Sr. Cloud Systems Engineer at Logicworks By Matthew Stockdale, Director of Professional Services at Logicworks As larger and more complex workloads are deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), multi-account solutions are an increasingly common architectural blueprint. These multi-account blueprints, often referred to as cloud “landing zones,” enable Read more…
AWS Organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Organizations includes consolidated billing and account management capabilities that enable you to better meet your business’s budgetary, security, and compliance needs. As an administrator of an organization, you can create member accounts Read more…
Virtualization quickly became a requirement to enable creative professionals to be productive during work from home mandates. This blog entry outlines key considerations when considering running your favorite post production applications from the AWS cloud. Customers frequently ask if they can run their editing software in AWS. From these inquiries, Read more…