Whether you are already one of the millions of active customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS), or are considering if you should migrate your organization’s workloads to the cloud, you’ve more than likely questioned the general security surrounding the platform. While cloud providers like AWS are responsible for maintaining the security of the cloud itself, it is up to your …
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 clients to restrict human access to production environments as much as possible, while establishing a unified change management process and automation pipeline in …
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 has not only an hourly charge of $0.045/hour, but also a usage charge of $0.045/GB Data Processed. As …
I have personally enjoyed watching the Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge that we know as “S.L.A.C.K.” move from being a tool known only to engineers, to fundamentally disrupting well-established business tools like email. Now that Slack has made a big splash among market watchers with its $9 billion valuation and acquisition suiters like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, news …
What do superhero Band-Aids, and millions of people attending the victory celebration for the World Series champion Chicago Cubs, have in common? Both have optimized for success through the AWS Cloud using an AWS Partner company, according to Terry Wise, vice president at AWS and the host of the Global Partner Summit, part of the massive AWS re:Invent gathering going …
I use Terraform by Hashi Corp. almost exclusively — not just for standing up entire environments, but also for continuous deployment of EC2 instances, Lambda functions, and even static S3 websites. Recently, I was asked to host the Swagger UI on a private s3 bucket. I immediately started writing a reusable Terraform module for this job. The purpose of this …
Say you’re a rancher. Now, for most of you reading this blog, you will have to use your imagination to picture life on the open plains, proudly riding your cattle herd and knowing that your livelihood depends upon these beefy, bountiful steeds. Somewhere along this journey, you’ll be faced with a critical decision: One of your prized cattle has come …
AWS’ CLI tools provide a powerful set of tools when working with large batch jobs or even simpler day-to-day tasks. When I recently found myself tasked to convert 100+ virtual machine images, totaling over 6TB of data, into AWS AMIs, my first thought was “write a script!”. This ultimately presented a bit of a hurdle in that cross-account credentials expire …
For those of us of a certain age, cartoons built around the space-age– or at least the 1960s and 1970s ideal of the “stratos-future” – held a certain appeal. For many of us at Blue Sentry, one particular cartoon – The Jetsons – was of particular interest. To watch George Jetson zipping from cloud to cloud (albeit in a personal …
By now, most industry leaders agree that it’s not a matter of if your company will move to the cloud, but when you will make the move. So how can you ensure that your cloud journey is successful? The answer might be as simple as asking the right people for help. In a recent survey of IT professionals, the number …
