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...
by Kenneth Johnson | Jun 16, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Internet of Things, Managed Service Provider, Uncategorized
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...
by Jordan Bressler | Nov 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dennis Webb | Nov 2, 2016 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Terraform, Uncategorized
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...
by Jordan Bressler | Jun 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
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...
by Brad Campbell | Jun 10, 2016 | Amazon Web Services, Cloud Technology, Uncategorized
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...
