by Melissa Palmer | Mar 14, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Melissa Palmer
You’ve thought about going to AWS. You have been learning about things like Amazon’s EC2 Instances. Why not go out there and get an AWS certification? There’s no doubt about it, AWS certifications are some of the hottest out there right now. Don’t believe me? Just ask...
by Gina Rosenthal | Mar 7, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
I’ve done it, and I bet you’ve done it too. As evidenced by the most recent AWS outage, even cloud engineers do it. I’m talking about taking down a system with a typo. I’m talking about configuration errors caused by human mistakes that take systems down. In my case,...
by Melissa Palmer | Feb 23, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Melissa Palmer
One of the great things about AWS is that it’s so easy to get started with. So easy, you probably aren’t even thinking about things like what AWS regions your deployment should be based out of, after all the web console makes it frighteningly easy to get...
by Melissa Palmer | Feb 14, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Melissa Palmer
Amazon Web Services is all about making the cloud consumer process as consistent and as simple as possible. Simple is relative to the consumer, but consistency is key for everyone currently using the service, or looking to adopt it. One thing we like to do for...
by Melissa Palmer | Jan 26, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Melissa Palmer, Platforms
Navigating the AWS ecosystem can be a daunting effort. Over the last year, hundreds of services added, making finding the ones that will matter to you tricky to say the least. One of the challenges with getting started with AWS is doing seemingly simple things like...
by Melissa Palmer | Jan 10, 2017 | AWS, Cloud, Melissa Palmer, Platforms
Amazon Web Services added nearly three new services per day in 2016. The challenge for the many traditional virtualization administrators and operations teams is that we are up against the velocity of AWS when organizations ask about how to get better at the business...
