[A Well Architected Walkthrough] Operations 1 – How do you determine what your priorities are?
We start working through the questions of a Well Architected Review with the “Operational Excellence” pillar and how to identify what your priorities are.
We start working through the questions of a Well Architected Review with the “Operational Excellence” pillar and how to identify what your priorities are.
Recently, I did something I haven’t done in quite some time….. create a new Master Billing Account for a customer. This actually tripped me up a little bit as it raised a question I haven’t had to think about due to the wonderful world of automation; “What do I need to do to a new AWS Master Billing Account?”
Some of the challenges and pitfalls that await you on this journey of migrating your SQL Server data and codebase over to PostgreSQL, as well as a discussion about the AWS tools available to help you along the way.
Take the challenge out of remembering how to tag your instances by letting a few AWS Services do it for you.
A technique for estimating feature delivery dates when velocity data is not available but the scope of features/epics/stories is well defined.
In this article, we show an opportunity to reduce costs when multiple Application Load Balancers (ALB) are in use. By using one of the ALB’s features and minor changes to the environment, it’s possible to save some money on your AWS bill.
Using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge to allow password-protection of static website content hosted in S3
Hosting static websites in S3 is a well-understood domain; but what happens when you want to password-protect it? It’s a static website – there’s no webserver, so you can’t do password-based access control. Or can you? Read on to learn how.
There are a few key criteria I look for in CloudFormation – If I’m in a multi-account strategy then I must be able to deploy the CloudFormation in all accounts and/or regions. Additionally I must be able to stand up multiple copies of the same stack in the same VPC and account and/or regions.
Discover, Explore & Communicate the Real Complexity of Your Systems (presentation from LastConf 2018).
My presentation and InSpec demonstration at LastConf 2018 Melbourne.