September 11, 2017
EC2 Systems Manager Parameter Store
Generally speaking, when you deploy infrastructure through code, or run deployment scripts you’ll need to have a certain amount of…
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July 24, 2017
Patch Compliance with EC2 Systems Manager
Deploying security patches to servers is almost as much fun as managing backup jobs. But everyone has to do it,…
July 17, 2017
Run Commands through EC2 Systems Manager
In a previous post we covered the different capabilities and basic setup of EC2 Systems Manager, including the IAM roles…
July 10, 2017
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Services
We love Amazon EC2 instances because of how easy they are to deploy and we have a huge catalog of…
June 26, 2017
Migrate vSphere VMs to Amazon with AWS Server Migration Service
AWS is taking the virtualization world by storm. Workloads that used to get spun up on vSphere are now being…
June 13, 2017
Setup Amazon Storage Gateway
Amazon’s S3 is a cost effective way to store file but many organizations are used to mapping NFS shares to…
May 15, 2017
Setup ADFS for Amazon Web Services SAML Authentication
It’s a pretty common design request these days to have a single authentication source. I mean, do you really want…
March 6, 2017
Using Packer to Create vSphere and AWS Images
Packer is a free tool from Hashicorp that allows you to build new images. Keeping base vSphere templates up to…
February 27, 2017
AWS Service Catalog
Many cloud initiatives require having a portal for users to choose which workloads can be deployed. Think of this as…
February 13, 2017
Pros and Cons of Amazon’s Key Management Service
Not everyone who encrypts data uses a key management solution. Since the days we started worrying about storage of personally identifiable…