The Blue Sentry Blog
by Jordan Bressler | Mar 7, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Center of Excellence, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps, Managed Service Provider
When we survey the technology landscape today, it’s clear that the world has changed forever. The speed facilitated by a cloud infrastructure has truly set industry on its head – favoring tiny startups over centuries-old Fortune 500 behemoths, and handing competitive...
by Dennis Webb | Oct 4, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Case Studies, Cloud Technology, S3, Testimonials
There have been many stories over the past months about S3 buckets being left unsecured. Terabytes of sensitive data available for the whole world to download. CyberSecurity 101 teaches, “Don’t leave private data open to the public.”, but somehow many major companies...
by Mike Holcomb | Sep 25, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, S3
Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock has heard about the growing number of so-called Amazon Web Services S3 “data leaks” lately. Though many seem intent on blaming this directly on AWS or describe it as a weakness of the “cloud”, this is not an issue with AWS...
by Jason Losh | Aug 21, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps
Despite being 8 years into the DevOps movement, I cannot tell you how often I am asked the question, “What is DevOps?” In this post, I will explore what DevOps is to me, based on my real world experience building DevOps organizations. First and foremost,...
by James Strong | Aug 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Internet of Things, Managed Service Provider
I recently represented Blue Sentry at the AWS Summit in Chicago, and had one overarching thought: Just when you thought AWS had reached the apex of innovation, they up their game again. The pace of innovation is simply staggering at AWS, with weekly service releases...
by Jordan Bressler | Jul 25, 2017 | Newsroom
Myrtle Beach, S.C. – July 25, 2017 – Blue Sentry, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Advanced tier Consulting Partner solely focused on helping businesses achieve transformational cloud maturity on AWS, has announced that it has earned AWS Migration...
by Jason Losh | Jul 25, 2017 | Amazon Alexa, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Internet of Things
I’m sitting in my office in Cary, North Carolina (just outside of beautiful Raleigh), and it’s HOT. We’re talking 106-degree-heat-index hot. The kind of hot where I haven’t even left the house since my morning run. So, with summer squarely top of mind, I bring you...
by Michael Handa | Jul 14, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Managed Service Provider
Ask most startup entrepreneurs what they got paid last week, and the reaction will typically be a laugh — possibly accompanied by a snort. Indeed, in the startup universe, bootstraps are the name of the game, and every glinting dime is generally deployed back...
by Kenneth Johnson | Jun 29, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, High Performance Applications, Managed Service Provider, Microsoft Azure
I am often asked about High Availability on AWS. And we see a great deal of opportunity for users of AWS to improve in this area—so much so that it is a formal theme among our seven themes in the Cloud Maturity Index. It has become a major area of focus for Blue...
by Dennis Webb | Jun 26, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Case Studies, Cloud Commuting, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps, Managed Service Provider, Uncategorized
The Problem While reviewing a customer’s AWS bill recently, I noticed line-item entry for $14,298 on their bill for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud NatGateway. That’s a lot of money being spent on internet traffic to and from their account. The AWS NatGateway...
