The AWS EC2 Windows Secret Sauce
Now that I have got your attention with a catchy title - let me share with some of my thoughts regarding how AWS shines and how much your experience as a customer matters. Deploying instances in the …
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Subscribe via RSS →The Anatomy of an AWS Key Leak to a Public Code Repository
Many of us working with any cloud provider know that you should never ever commit access keys to a public github repo. Some really bad things can happen if you do. AWS (and I assume all the cloud …
My awesome-podcasts List
I have a decent commute every day back and forth to work and I have come to enjoy listening to a number of podcasts throughout the week. I will try and keep the list up to date - here As of today - …
Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish
Back in July 2018, I started to write a blog post about the upcoming death of Docker as a company (and also perhaps as a technology) but I never got round to completing and publishing the post. It is …
Separate VPC's can do More Harm Than Good
I have come across this a number of times of the past couple of months. Environments that were born in the datacenter, have grown in the datacenter - in short people who are used to certain (shall we …
The Year 2018 in review
I don’t always do these kind of posts but 2018 was a substantial year for me that warrants a short summary. I released the AWS Powershell Container - gauging by the number of pulls - I guess …
AWS Client VPN
So after leaking (or not really leaking) from some of the sessions from re:Invent it seems that AWS have finally released the Client VPN AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that …
AWS Outposts - told you so..
I called it - to me it was obvious that this was going to happen. The signs were all there. This was the direction that the market has been pushing for, and AWS has a reputation of giving the …
#AWS PrivateLink vs. NAT Gateway from a Pricing Perspective
A customer came to me with a request. They do not want to use a NAT gateway from their VPC to access the AWS API’s. They had a number of security concerns regarding the use of a NAT gateway (no …
Replacing the AWS ELB - Automation
This is Part 5 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The Network …