Category: AWS

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…

Python, Lambda, Layers & Rain Even though I’ve spent years architecting infrastructure, there are times I do miss software development. Not to date myself too much, but yes it was mostly in FORTRAN on a…

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,…

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.  …

Setting up single sign-on (SSO) can be a confusing task. I’ve done it many times over the years with a number of SaaS providers and each one seems to be just a little bit different.…

AWS to Azure Connectivity Several years ago I ran through an exercise of connecting AWS to Azure. At the time, I used an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running OpenSWAN on the AWS side to a…