Understanding AWS CloudFormation
Heard about AWS CloudFormation but not sure if it’s for you? Here’s everything you need to know about AWS CloudFormation, from how to use AWS CloudFormation templates, to the CloudFormation concepts and CloudFormation custom resources that you’ll need to get your head around if you want to start automating best practices with infrastructure as code. […]
Introduction to Network Address Translation (NAT)
Overview This is part of a series of articles about IT Mapping In computer networking, in order for two devices to communicate, each of them needs to have an IP Address. This address uniquely identifies a device on the network to allow others to communicate with it. The most common addressing method in use today […]
The Beginners Guide for Azure VMs Pricing
What’s Azure VMs? Azure Virtual Machines (VM) is one of several types of on-demand, scalable computing resources that Azure offers. Developers can create instances of virtual machines and easily configure the capacity scaling of instances using the Azure web or CLI interface. Azure VM also allows users to build apps to automate scaling according to changing needs […]
Cloud Implementation: 5 Top Best Practices for Cloud Success
What is Cloud Implementation? The world is moving towards automation swiftly, and cloud implementation gives your organization an edge. Moving workload from on-premises to cloud is convenient and cost-effective. But a company needs to focus on crafting a detailed blueprint. It does not matter if an organization wants to shift the entire portfolio or even […]
Best Practices and Tools for Cloud Cost Optimization
Gartner recently published a guide called How to Manage and Optimize Costs of Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS. In the key findings, they comment that “focusing on efficient use of cloud services brings immediate and tangible financial benefits. Unfortunately, most organizations are unprepared to profit from this savings opportunity and they’re likely to overspend.” With […]
Top Cloud Consulting Partners for 2022
The right cloud consultant can make all the difference when it comes to getting your software solution off the ground, and succeeding on the cloud. Cloud solution providers are there to help you add agility and speed, and a smart cloud advisor will share of their own expertise so that you can benefit from their […]
The Beginners Guide to AWS EC2 Pricing
What Is AWS EC2 Pricing? Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), one of Amazon Web Services’ most well-known services, offers businesses the ability to run applications on the public cloud. Developers can create instances of virtual machines and easily configure the capacity scaling of instances using the EC2 web interface. EC2 also allows users to build apps to […]
Creating a Custom Resource in AWS CloudFormation
Intoduction AWS CloudFormation is a powerful tool to allow you to get environments in the cloud up and running as quickly as possible and with minimum user error. It allows you to build templates that can create almost anything in your cloud environment automatically. Well, almost. There are some places where CloudFormation is lacking in […]
Hybrid Cloud Solutions & What They Can Offer Your Enterprise
What are the Top Hybrid Cloud Solutions So, let’s dive right in. What is a hybrid cloud? At its simplest, a hybrid cloud is an IT architecture that spans multiple different environments, such as on-premises and public or private cloud solutions or multiple public commodity clouds. According to Gartner, as flexibility and agility continue to […]
Programmatically Accessing an Amazon EKS Kubernetes Cluster
Introduction Setting up a Kubernetes environment can be a complex task, and installing one from scratch can be very time consuming. One of the easier ways of getting started with a new Kubernetes cluster is using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service along with eksctl which can set up a new cluster for you within minutes. In […]