Category: Amazon Web Services

AWS IoT Environment Startup/Shutdown One of the easiest ways to save money on your AWS EC2 costs especially for development environments is to only run them when there is active development and then shut them…

In my latest Hands On series, I take a look at Parallels RAS version 17.1 deployed on AWS infrastructure. I have been following this product since the acquision of 2X (which you will still find…

In my previous post (Hands On: N2WS Backup & Recovery) I took a look a some features of V3.1 of N2WS Backup & Recovery. I did show some of the nice features of the product,…

In this hands on series I take a spin with V3.1 of N2WS Backup & Recovery. You might ask, “Why do I need protection in the cloud, the cloud is already protected, right?”. One of…

I was recently given a problem set that involved the long term storage of Microsoft SQL backup files on AWS that should be stored using a “Write Once Read Many” (WORM) type of scenario.  …

A very common cloud workload is a Microsoft Windows File Server. The fantastic thing about the cloud is there is no shortage of options to fulfill this requirement, but which solution to choose? In this…

AWS just announced support for UDP in their Network Load Balancer.https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-udp-load-balancing-for-network-load-balancer/ We can take advantage of this right away to make our Microsoft NPS servers with the Azure MFA extension (MFA in the cloud) highly…