Some quick and easy cost control techniques in AWS

Anything big happening in the world? The recent governmental response to COVID-19 has significantly affected the Australian to US financial exchange rate. A downside of the government stimulus and effects on the global supply chain is that your AWS bill has just increased by 15% over the past month!
That’s A Wrap(Up)!

Well, what a week it was in Las Vegas for this year’s AWS re:Invent!
Introducing AWS Mousetrap

Introducing AWS Mousetrap: a new AWS-based game that asks you to build the most complex machine possible to perform a trivially simple task
AWS RE:INVENT 2019 Recap – Day #2

Following on from Day 1 the Cevo Team have collected the big announcements and thoughts from Andy Jassy’s Tuesday Keynote session
AWS RELINVENT 2019 Recap – Day #1

This year, Steve Mactaggart, Colin Panisset and James Lewis are representing Cevo at AWS re:Invent. Here’s a recap from Day 1…
Migrating your Database(Admins) to the Cloud: Planning Access and Authorisation 101

This blog will focus on the access and authorisation approach for databases in AWS and how this should be of the first things you look at as you migrate databases from on-premises to the cloud.
Thoughts on AWS Control Tower

In July 2019, AWS launched Control Tower as a method to provision a new AWS account hierarchy and configuration referred to as a “landing zone”. We took a deep dive on AWS account design and AWS Control Tower to see what it all means.
AWS APN Ambassador Global Summit Wrap Up

AWS organised the first ever Ambassador Global Summit for the top 50 partner ambassadors to talk about specific roadmap items around various AWS services. Trent Hornibrook, one of Cevo’s AWS APN Ambassadors, attended the Global Summit and gives his thoughts here.
Using GCP Service Accounts to Access AWS IAM Roles
GCP Service Accounts provide a simple way to acquire and use AWS IAM Role-based credentials, if you know how…and this post shows you!
Integrating CFN-LINT with BuildKite
In this post we explore how to integrate cfn-lint with Buildkite for testing CloudFormation templates, ensuring that the CloudFormation stack will only be deployed if it’s correct.