EC2 Instance Connect
Sometimes it is nice to highlight the quality of life updates that AWS adds. EC2 Instance Connect is one of those necessities. Long have we been jelly of other Cloud…
Forecasting Deliveries
It happens often, you’re working with a client and they are excited for a delivery of a new app or feature and are asking THE question -- when will it…
CloudWatch Insights
With the ever-growing stream of data coming from your workloads no wonder sending data into CloudWatch makes sense. But as you send more and more data the ability to sift…
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,…
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…
TL;DR – Augeas: Editing Config Files, Made Easy
As we venture further down the AWS Cloud path, one thing becomes clear. To indeed Cloud at scale - you have to automate the hell out of everything you do.…
TL;DR – The Cloud Series: Intro to the Cloud Pt 2
In the first blog post of the series, we talked about the cloud in general and the shift in mentality needed to move away from self-managed on-prem VMware environments. The next…
TL;DR – The Cloud Series: Intro to the Cloud
Bypassing the hype of the Cloud, let's have a conversation about how to think about the Cloud in a practical and useful way. We’ll skip the hyperbole that the Cloud…