AWS Technology
Service Mesh, Security and High Availability
What are they? Backend cloud services are the operations and routines end users don’t see but are essential to provide resilience and secure access to ba…
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Application TransformationResiliency and High Availability in the Cloud, some key principles
Resiliency in the Cloud is composed of many areas including: Failover (instances, servers) High Availability (multi-zones, regions) Backup Disaster Recovery (p…
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Dev, Test, OptimisationAutomate VM Provisioning and De-Provisioning, basic flows (with VMware)
Automating the provisioning of Virtual Machines includes using a SaaS or platform such as ServiceNow (ITSM), a CMDB (configuration management database), APIs, …
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Cloud Design GoalsMainframe Virtualisation and the Cloudy
Many large firms, especially Banks and Financial Institutions are moving to a Mainframe-Multi Cloud model of computing. This is a long term effort still in tra…
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AWS TechnologyBasic API Flow
End User, Security Group (JWT etc), to the Front End application, Proxy (nginx), to the API Gateway where policies are applied (Security, Throttling), to the A…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Organizations – overview
AWS offers a means to organisation the usage of the platform, and to manage multiple accounts within a single organisation. None of this is that straightforwar…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Fargate – introduction to managed containers
How Does Fargate Work? Fargate allows you to deploy containers without setting up or managing the infrastructure that will host them. You tell Fargate which co…
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AWS TechnologyAWS API Gateway, Lambda, SNS
AWS API Gateway is extremely powerful and easy to deploy. You don’t have to manage any infrastructure (i.e. no purchasing, scaling, patching), the gateway is c…
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AWS TechnologyAWS Cloudformation Basics
AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure-as-code tool that defines resources and their configurations in a standardized template — either a JavaScript Obj…
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AWS NewsAWS Mainframe Migration Service
https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe/ AWS announced the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and easier for cust…
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Application TransformationAPI Gateways vs a monolithic Service Bus
APIs provide the standardized contract that was missing from the SOAP environment. SOAP messaging and related protocols were used in the monolithic Service Bus…
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Cloud Design GoalsDisaster Recovery Patterns in AWS
There are four levels of DR protection in AWS. DR patterns: From least costly and complex to most. 1-Backup and restore. Admins typically choose this option fo…
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