DevOps State of Mind
When we stop treating servers as pets and more like cattle it becomes the essence of DevOps. Transitioning to a mindset where all servers and resources are as disposable as…
An S3 Magic Trick
Now that we have mostly recovered from the awesomeness of re:invent, Christmas, and New Year’s. Time to get back to the world of all things Cloud. To harken the New…
Graviton Bomb – AWS Moves into the Chip Market
AWS doesn’t cease to drop surprises. Yesterday’s Monday Night Live AWS announced they had entered the CPU space. AWS Graviton is an ARM-based processor purpose-built for the cloud and designed…
Re:Invent 2018 – It Starts
It’s that time of year again, no, not Thanksgiving or Black Friday but the most crucial time of the year - AWS re:Invent! As in previous years, DAE is has brought…
Digital Age Experts Achieves AWS Government Competency Status
[9/18/2018]– Digital Age Experts, LLC (DAE) is pleased to announce that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Government Competency status. This designation recognizes that DAE provides solutions to—and/or has…
Extending CloudFormation Using Custom Resources
With the breakneck pace at which Amazon launches new services and features, it’s frequent that our inner DevOps wants to leap into action and introduce it into our CloudFormations. Often,…
SHIFT Enhancement Announcements
The SHIFT team was busy over the summer, but we are pleased to announce 3 new major features on the SHIFT platform. SHIFT diagnostic environment: the newly released SHIFT diagnostic environment will…
Bastion Without the Host, Jump Without the Box
Written by: Gabriel Alix The addition of Session Manager (SM) to the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) service seemed insignificant at first. My initial reaction was like “meh”, seemed to be…
AWS Serverless Application Repo
AWS releases so many services one might lose track of some neat features in all the news. One such gem is AWS Serverless Application Repo. It is a collection of…
I <3 Parameter Store
When AWS announced EC2 System Manager (SSM) back in mid-2017, it included this innocuous feature called Parameter Store. I paid very little attention to it since most of our company…