PoC to Production Grade

https://open.spotify.com/episode/31dPmetPhosLeqhkI5eAra?si=MSmFmE4xTn-MkJxOESGbeQ Security is of utmost importance when hosting your production workloads into public cloud. It is one thing to host a non-critical web resource publicly, but it is altogether a different game when considering to host a production grade application on the internet. After all, what do we mean by production grade? And why is …

Achieving Operational Excellence in AWS

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Jec4Fj3bL4BctRqaxBjNn Category: AWS Well-Architected Framework Operational excellence is one of the pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework in which it suggests ways at various levels in an organization to achieve OpEx. OpEx essentially means running your operations in the most efficient ways. It could be application operations or platform operations.  Every organization defines its business objectives. …

Why Do You Need Cloud Cost Optimization?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5exzXaX9S2ey9yTxORkiPL Category: AWS Well Architected Framework The title of the post could also be read as - “Why don’t you want to save money?”. Well there it is, the answer to the question, you may not even read further. However, if you are interested to know certain aspects of AWS Cloud Cost Optimization then this …

AWS EC2 Auto Scaling

Category: Compute One of the advantages of cloud people often talk about is - pay for what you use. AWS gives us the ability to deploy cloud resources for the time we need them and pay just for the period we used those resources. But in any given project, managing resources manually to scale up …

AWS CloudWatch

Category: Monitoring Any infrastructure - cloud or on-prem - that hosts and supports a business service at a technical level needs monitoring. Monitoring is an essential part of infrastructure maintenance and helps keep the components healthy. Nowadays we also have proactive solutions in place that raise the flag for upcoming discrepancies. AWS CloudWatch is a …

AWS CloudTrail

Category: Monitoring Know how a flight recorder works? Flight recorders are installed in every aircraft to record everything that happens to the systems during a flight. In case of a disaster, these recorders are retrieved and the records are analyzed to determine the root cause of the disaster. Well, not just in case of disasters, …

AWS DynamoDB

Category: Database No-SQL databases are non-relational databases and they have a different approach to storing data. Having said that there are similarities and differences between SQL and No-SQL databases as well as they have their own set of pros and cons. In this post, we discuss DynamoDB which is a managed No-SQL database service by …

AWS Redshift

Category: Database Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data warehousing solution provided by AWS. It is an OLAP type of database service that runs complex queries across a huge dataset. These services are normally used to create business intelligence reports and in decision-making. Organizations that have large amounts of transactional data can process this data to …

AWS RDS

Category: Database There is a reason why database software exists, and why normal flat file storage is not used to store data that is generally stored in a database. The main reason being the time required to read and write data. Databases provide high read-write performance capabilities as compared to file operations. They are broadly …

AWS VPC

Category: Network AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) provides a networking and security layer for the deployed AWS resources like EC2, RDS, and similar other resources. VPCs form the basis of any cloud architecture. By default, they are isolated from other AWS services or networks. Compared to the real-world networks, AWS VPCs abstract most of the …