Managed Services is the practice of outsourcing infrastructure management to an expert third party to improve operations, efficiency, and cost control. Partnering with a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to run day-to-day cloud operations is now standard practice for organizations of every size, not a fringe strategy.
Even for someone who works with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a daily basis, the pace and scale of new announcements coming from AWS can be daunting. For example, in 2016, AWS made 640 announcements covering a range of topics from price drops, new services, and even new features to existing services. We are only three-quarters of the way through 2017 and AWS has already exceeded that number and still going strong with re:Invent (Amazon's annual conference for all things AWS, with features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities) still six weeks away.
If you’ve been following technology news in recent months you’ve probably heard all the buzz about artificial intelligence and terms such as “machine learning” and “neural networks”. The truth is artificial intelligence has been around for a while. It is just being covered a little more in the news lately. One of the factors that have allowed artificial intelligence to be more relevant has been the public cloud. The advent of the public cloud has had an enormous impact on the advancement of artificial intelligence in recent years.
Now that most have recovered from the hangover of the PetyaWrap ransomware attacks, it is Monday morning quarterback time. PetyaWrap was not a new ransomware with a zero day vulnerability, but rather a combination of three common vectors of attack that companies do not always take seriously. But securing your assets go beyond just your servers (aka EC2 instances); you also need to ensure your AWS Account is equally as secure.
Most people start experimenting with AWS by creating a few EC2 instances and maybe some S3 buckets to get a small application going. Once you start understanding how things work in AWS and have enough knowledge to get a small proof of concept application up and running you start to feel that satisfaction and affirmation that moving to the cloud was the right decision.
The three-tier architecture pattern has been an established best practice for decades. By separating infrastructure into layers, each is inherently more secure and flexible. In the cloud, the same design principles apply. This article focuses on the core principles of the three-tier web application architecture pattern on AWS, including availability zones, load balancers, route tables, gateways, autoscaling groups, and databases.
Tagging in AWS is a foundational practice that enhances visibility, cost control, and operational efficiency across your cloud environment. Whether managing a single application or a vast multi-account architecture, implementing a consistent tagging strategy enables better governance, automation, and cost accountability.
Welcome to the new Stratus10 blog!
We decided to stop talking so much about how awesome the cloud is and start writing about it instead so we are starting a new blog.
What can you expect from our blog? For starters you can expect a downpour of information about the cloud. What it does, how it works, how it can help you get ahead of the competition, and all the cool things you can do along the way.
