Cloud Security Requires Shared Responsibility
The Growth of Public Cloud and the Need for Cloud Security Since 2006 when Amazon first introduced EC2 — the first public cloud service — cloud has become a major staple of enterprise information technology strategy. Both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and newer cloud services continue to grow robustly. Enter the need for cloud security. […]
Multi-Cloud Is Not About Lift and Shift
Multi-cloud is often framed from the perspective of “lift and shift.” In other words, an organization takes a computing environment previously running on one cloud and transfers it over to a different service provider. Cloud migration may make sense for cost savings or performance benefits and such a shift may be necessary when migrating on-premises […]
Don’t Look at This! IT’S A SECRET!
To continue the discussion about secrets after perusing this excellent report by GitGuardian—last time I went a little nuts about the number of secrets exposed in IT folks’ personal repositories. And it is a lot. I mean a lot of secrets. But you know what is scarier than, “A lot of secrets are leaked in […]
Best Practices for AWS Tagging With Yor
On the surface, AWS resource tags are simple, informational key:value metadata that you can assign to most AWS resources. They also have many hidden benefits, as outlined in this AWS Tagging Best Practices guide for improving cloud operations. There are six use cases author Brian Yost calls out in particular: AWS console organization and resource […]
Gotta Fix ‘Em All: AWS BugBust 2021
Software bugs are vexing. Code reviews and error finding aren’t a particularly fun part of a developer’s job description. Finding bugs is tedious, time-consuming and hard on your eyes. Bugs not only wreak havoc on your code, they wreak havoc on your day. But what if bashing bugs could earn you a payoff greater than […]
Designing Cost-Efficient Cloud Environments
Today, the days of on-premises data centers are mostly behind us, and the cloud has largely taken over with the promise of scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency. Despite these promises, the cloud often falls short of these ideals. Why? Because managing the cloud is hard—especially when it comes to managing its costs. There are no automatic […]
Cloud Governance Can Trim Cloud Costs
The abrupt need to transition to remote work last year caused many companies to migrate to the cloud or accelerate an in-process migration. Cloud has become an essential part of company operations and budgets. Last year, worldwide end user spending on public cloud services was $257.5 billion, making up 9.1% of total global enterprise IT […]
What Amazon’s New CEO Means for IT’s Future
Amazon is placing its bets on the future of cloud. The announcement that CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down and passing the torch to Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Andy Jassy at the start of Q3 2021 signals a major shift in the future of technology – and not only for organizations specializing in […]
Progress Unveils First Update to Chef Automation Portfolio
Progress today announced it has enhanced its Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and released a new version of Chef Infra Client that promises to make the programming language on which EAS relies more accessible. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for Progress, said the latest versions of both offerings are the first updates to the […]
Cloud Migration Monitoring: A Practical Guide
Almost every organization has transitioned some operational systems to the cloud. DevOps professionals are an essential part of migration projects, facilitating the migration itself, and making sure applications work as expected and provide satisfactory performance after the migration. To make your next cloud migration a success, you must get monitoring right. Applications must be monitored […]
IaC Frameworks: Vendor-Specific or Multi-Cloud?
Over the past few years, I have been watching the shift to infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks closely. With the shift from monolithic to microservices, and with the shift from mostly virtual machines (VMs) to cloud-native architecture, applications are much more complicated, making it much more important to automate infrastructure to respond with speed. In […]
Why Every DevOps Team Needs a Spot Instance Strategy
Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, unused cloud resources. Spot instances are one of the most important ways to reduce the cost of public cloud services. Spot instances are […]
Reserved.ai Applies Machine Learning to Rein in Cloud Costs
Reserved.ai has added a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to more accurately predict cloud computing workloads and rein in cloud spending. The company says its Purchase Planner tool uses machine learning to optimize cloud computing workloads by automatically purchasing cloud reserve instances based on the forecasts it generates. Purchase Planner leverages the machine learning algorithms […]
AWS Looks to Meld MLOps and DevOps
The rate at which machine learning operations (MLOps) and DevOps best practices are converging is poised for rapid acceleration in 2021. At the recent online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is adding a bevy of capabilities to Amazon SageMaker, a managed MLOps service, that includes a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) service […]
AWS Taps Grafana Labs to Launch Managed Observability Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS), in collaboration with Grafana Labs, has added a preview of managed service based on the Grafana observability platform to its portfolio of tools for managing cloud applications and infrastructure. The Grafana platform is based on an implementation of the open source Prometheus monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the […]
Split Allies With AWS to Advance Feature Flagging Adoption
Split today announced it has integrated its namesake platform for managing feature flagging with the Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as part of an effort to streamline the process of adding new capabilities to applications. Company CTO Pato Echagüe said one of the most challenging aspects of feature flagging is providing a way for […]
AWS Expands Breadth, Depth of DevOps Services Portfolio
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a bevy of cloud services, including a preview of Amazon DevOps Guru, that collectively promise to make it much easier to deploy and manage cloud applications. Announced during the online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed service that employs machine learning algorithms to automatically detecting […]
New AWS Services Optimize App Development Process
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is always busy introducing new services, enhancing existing ones and, quite often, driving trends. However, the cloud services provider has upped its game even more in recent months. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced an astonishing number of developments that enable technology interoperability, simplifying legacy feature removal, creating greater […]
From ‘Cloud Zombies’ to Multi-Cloud Experts
A significant risk associated with cloud migration is overspending. For years, zombie-like obedience to AWS has resulted in price lock and escalating fees at many organizations – this is a tale for fighting the cloud zombies. Cloud costs around data egress or application bandwidth are often not transparent and thus highly unpredictable. Complicating this problem […]
How To Build Out a Successful Multi-Cloud Strategy
Navigating even just a single cloud environment can be complicated enough for any startup. Between understanding the range of features on offer, planning for expenditure and ensuring you have the right expertise to leverage the tool to its full potential, the thought of managing multiple clouds can seem daunting. However, whether your company is just […]
Twilio Expands Scope of Cloud Services Portfolio
Twilio today at its online SIGNAL 2020 conference launched Twilio Video Web RTC Go, a free toolkit that makes it easier to embed video within an application, and exposed an Event Streams application programming interface (API) through which the management of streams of messaging and voice can be centralized using the Amazon Kinesis platform. At […]
VMware Starts to Gain Some Momentum on AWS
The number of IT organizations planning to move application workloads to the cloud that today run on VMware appears to be accelerating in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey of 1,054 IT and business professionals conducted by Faction, a provider of IT services, conducted in June finds more than half (51%) of all […]
AWS DevOps Essentials
In few hours, quickly learn how to effectively leverage various AWS services to improve developer productivity and reduce the overall time to market for new product capabilities. In this session, we will demonstrate a prescriptive approach to incrementally adopt and embrace some of the best practices around continuous integration & delivery using AWS Developer Tools […]