Amazon Web Services Archives

Five Reasons to Bring the “Scalable Cloud” To Your Business

by Tom Lewis | Jan 25, 2019 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Center of Excellence, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps, Managed Service Provider

Here at Blue Sentry, I’m the sales guy in a room of high tech, methodical engineers. Sure, I can geek out over specs and features (I have two AWS certs myself) but at the end of the day, I am in it for the relationship. So, historically, it has been tough not to get...

Five Ways to Ensure Your Cloud Workload is Well Architected

by Tom Lewis | Oct 22, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Center of Excellence, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Managed Service Provider

These days, nearly every company has at least some of its application portfolio running on cloud infrastructure. But, most companies are not achieving the objectives that drove them to adopt cloud. Simply “lifting and shifting” a legacy workload does not allow...

Case Study: How Blue Sentry Uses VictorOps for Incident Management

by Jordan Bressler | Oct 16, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Case Studies, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Managed Service Provider, Testimonials

Blue Sentry’s partnership with VictorOps has paid great dividends when it comes to the company’s needs around incident management in a distributed network operations center (NOC). Learn how the VictorOps partnership has benefited Blue Sentry and its...

The Cloud Center of Excellence: Cloud City

by Jason Losh | Aug 15, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Center of Excellence, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps

“I saw … a city in the clouds.” – Luke Skywalker I’ve been at Blue Sentry now for almost two full years, and have worked with AWS and DevOps teams for 10+ years before that in previous lives. It’s hard to believe that it’s...

A Well-Architected Operation Begins with the Right People

by Kenneth Johnson | Aug 8, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Center of Excellence, Cloud Technology, Cloud Transformation, DevOps, Managed Service Provider, Uncategorized

Achieving high availability, robust disaster recovery, agility and cost savings are all reasons to adopt a next-generation, automation-based approach to operations. This is what Blue Sentry’s managed “DevOps as a Service” is all about. We encourage our...

Cloud Managed Services: Deployments and Managed Services

by Michael Handa | Aug 2, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, CI/CD, Cloud Technology, DevOps, Managed Service Provider

Can I get a deployment to production, please? This isn’t exactly how most tickets start, but it’s an appropriate summary of most client requests, in the most basic way. The request is simple, but involves several complicated mechanics that are developed over...