Establishing your Cloud Foundations with an AWS Landing Zone

One of the key challenges for an enterprise that is just getting started with AWS is establishing a sensible cloud platform for people to work in.

Windows Containers on ECS – Part 2

From theory to practice; following on from Part 1, in this post I demonstrate how to implement a Windows container workload

Windows Containers on ECS – Part 1

In this post, I’ll explore some of the ins and outs of running a containerised Windows workload on the AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) platform.

3 Things to Consider Before Starting Your Cloud Migration

In this post we look at the 3 key areas you need to consider before diving headlong into a cloud migration project.

3 Tips for Managing your AWS Landing Zone

The AWS Landing Zone is a great way to provision the foundation for your consumption of AWS, with guardrails and management via infrastructure as code.

Cloud Migration with VMC

To support migrations at scale and at pace, we’ve partnered with VMware to incorporate the VMware Cloud on AWS solution into our migration toolkit for those workloads that are just too hard to migrate and transform at the same time.

AWS AppStream – Secure, High Performance Remote Work

Now that we’ve become remote workers by default, it’s no surprise that many teams are turning to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions to provide centralised, managed desktop experiences for day to day applications. But what if you don’t need a full desktop experience and, instead, just need to provide access to a single application (or a few pre-defined applications)?

Are You Well Architected?

Through continuous compliance, continuous integration and continuous delivery we’ve reduced the cycle time for deploying changes – but how do you know these are the right changes? Enter the AWS Well Architected Framework.

Automating DMS Endpoint S3 Target with a CloudFormation Custom Resource

Whether you are establishing an AWS Data Lake, or migrating services to the cloud, the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) should be a tool in your toolkit. DMS is a relatively straight forward service to configure and supported by AWS Cloudformation, however there is a specific pattern that requires a customised process. Enter CloudFormation Lambda backed Custom Resources which we can leverage to automate these processes and continue to reap the benefits of deployed resources via CloudFormation

From zero to VDI in an hour using Amazon WorkSpaces

Now more than ever, we are depending on technology and productivity tools to allow us to operate as effectively as possible under current circumstances.

For those who have already been one step ahead in their remote work environment, it’s a fairly smooth transition but for the rest it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

The good news is that today you can establish a remote work environment in the matter of hours. In this blog I will cover one of the quickest approach to setup a secure VDI solution using Amazon WorkSpaces.