Lucidchart Launches Tool to Visualize AWS Cloud Environments
Lucidchart today added a visualization tool that generates interactive diagrams of an IT organization’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Dan Lawyer, senior vice president of product at Lucidchart, said Lucidchart Cloud Insights makes it possible to automatically visualize all the services an organization is consuming from the cloud service provider, with support for other cloud […]
Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud
Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced the availability of an M6g instance of processors on its public cloud. Based on a 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 architecture, the M6g processors […]
AWS Adds GUI to Snow Edge Computing Family
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced it has added a graphical user interface (GUI) tool dubbed AWS OpsHub for Snow Family to provide an alternative to the command-line interface (CLI) tool it makes available to manage its family of Snow appliances deployed in on-premises environments. At the same time, AWS announced it is making […]
Tips on Rightsizing to Reduce AWS Costs Now
In this business climate, everyone is looking to reduce costs. CFOs are reevaluating their software and infrastructure spend, and naturally, companies are looking for ways to optimize their AWS costs. In fact, we are now leveraging a major reason cloud is so compelling in the first place: you have more flexibility to control costs based […]
2nd Watch Allies With GitLab for Managed DevOps Service
2nd Watch today launched a managed DevOps service based on the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform from GitLab that it will operate on behalf of customers in addition to coaching them on how to adopt best DevOps practices. Stefana Muller, a senior product manager, said the 2nd Watch Managed DevOps service combines the managed and […]
Mission Makes AWS Expertise Available for Free
Mission, a provider of managed services for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, this week announced it will make its cloud optimization expertise available free of charge for any IT organization that acquires AWS licenses through it. Alex Beal, director of product for Mission, said as cloud sprawl continues to be an issue, many internal […]
Does the Empire Strike Back When We Learn What Happens to the $10 Billion JEDI Contract?
Microsoft scored a huge victory by sweeping in and taking the $10 billion dollar, multi-year JEDI contract for military IT services from AWS (owned and operated by amazon.com, its parent company). The backstory on this is that James “Mad Dog” Mattis, then Secretary of Defense, met with Jeff Bezos who tweeted about it on August […]
Datadog Sees Spike in AWS Lambda Serverless Adoption
Datadog published a report that shows nearly half of organizations using the company’s IT monitoring platform have embraced the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework. Stephen Pinkerton, a product manager for Datadog, said that number shows serverless computing frameworks are being employed by mainstream IT organizations far more widely than initially might be thought, given the […]
SIOS Technology Automates Rebooting of AWS EC2 VM Instances
SIOS Technology Corp. this week launched SIOS AppKeeper, a tool that automatically reboots instances of EC2 virtual machines anytime they fail. Michael Bilancieri, senior vice president of products and marketing for SIOS, said SIOS AppKeeper is an extension of the work SIOS has historically done to enable servers and clusters to failover. However, many organizations […]
Earning an AWS Developer Associate Certification
Studying for an AWS Certification may seem like an arduous task, especially if one isn’t expecting to take any more tests now that college is finally over. However, the certification doesn’t have to be long and tedious—it can be accomplished in as little as three months or less. I had started working in the middle […]
DevOps at Longtail UX
Longtail UX is an Australian SaaS startup that boosts traffic to e-commerce sites by automating the selection of relevant long-tail search terms and the creation of custom landing pages for each of those terms. The company has fully embraced the Infrastructure-as-Code approach, according to Troy Jendra, senior systems architect at Longtail UX. By using Terraform […]
Waging a Winning WAR in AWS
Above all other security advice for enterprises working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), there is one resounding war cry: “Go to WAR.” WAR is an acronym meaning Well-Architected Review. It’s a powerful and proactive way to mitigate real risk with the AWS team and its partners. If you’re using AWS (or thinking about it) consider […]
AWS Applies Machine Learning to Optimize Cloud Deployments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week at its re:Invent 2019 conference unfurled two tools based on machine learning algorithms to optimize cloud application deployments. Amazon CodeGuru is a service available as a preview, through which the cloud service provider will inspect application code using machine learning algorithms to profile the code and then identify bottlenecks […]
Why AWS Cost Optimization Is About More than Saving Money
Why is it important to track and monitor cloud costs? The obvious answer is it helps you save money—and everyone wants to save money. Yet, cost plays a much larger role in your cloud journey. If you think about cost only in terms of how much you are paying and what you are getting in […]
Optimizing AWS Performance Over the Long Term
Ask most folks how to optimize performance on AWS, and they’ll talk about things such as autoscaling and rightsizing. Those tools are certainly part of an effective AWS performance optimization strategy. On their own, however, they are not enough to guarantee performance and reliability over the long haul. That’s because tools and processes such as […]
How Organizations Benefit from AWS App Patterns
As a startup, an organization thrives by breaking rules, challenging the status quo and standing for all that is against the norm. The same rules don’t apply once the same organization grows, matures, becomes popular, gains a long list of clients and expands to a global footprint. With scale and growth comes the need for […]
The Accelerating Cloud Wars
Enterprises have embraced cloud computing at a phenomenal clip, according to newly-released report, A for Adoption, from cloud access security broker provider Bitglass. Over the past five years, the report found cloud penetration grew from 24% (in 2014) to 86% of organizations today. Last year, that adoption rate was 81%. Yet, while cloud has helped […]
What Are AWS Application Patterns?
The cloud-native approach is not just about compute power and cloud services. A “set it and forget it” attitude won’t work with cloud native; there are far too many moving pieces and there is just way too much complexity. Instead, this approach requires constant testing, optimization and improvement. This is epitomized in the two key […]
How to Transition to Become a DevOps Engineer
You’ve either heard the buzzword or you’ve seen the extensive list of rewarding aspects that come with being a DevOps engineer. Whatever the reason you’re here, this guide should help with taking the right steps toward becoming a DevOps engineer, whether this is your first job after graduating or an opportunity to reskill leveraging your […]
Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes: Leaky S3 Buckets
As we get ready to discuss our list of the Top 5 AWS Security Mistakes in the upcoming devopsy.kinsta.cloud webinar, we wanted to provide a preview of the type and depth of information we’ll be discussing. Since the most-talked about, and likely the most vulnerable, aspect of AWS security is inevitably those leaky S3 buckets, […]
AWS Advances DevOps Agenda at Summit Event
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added services to its cloud platform designed to automate the creation of virtual private clouds (VPCs) and made available additional tools to build applications and integrate external data. Speaking at the AWS Summit event, CTO Werner Vogels said these latest services are part of an ongoing effort to automate DevOps […]
DevOps Chat: Global Intelligence for AWS GuardDuty, With Sumo Logic
Wouldn’t it be helpful to know if other cloud users are seeing the same or similar attacks that you are? Security intelligence about cloud applications beyond just those you own and operate as an enterprise opens up a new dimension in attack visibility against even large sets of cloud apps. During AWS re:Inforce 2019, Sumo […]
DevOps Chat: ‘War, Peace & IT’ With Marc Schwartz
Marc Schwartz is one of those rare individuals who is not only a great IT exec, but he also can analyze what works and doesn’t work and write it up in a way that helps others. His “A Seat at the Table” is still one of my favorite DevOps books. Marc’s new book is called, […]