Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a critical component of the modern application delivery toolchain that enables software companies to manage their IT infrastructure using machine-readable configuration files. These files contain…
Choosing a Cloud Provider—Storage: Part 2—Azure & GCPIn the first part of this series, I covered the basics of cloud storage and AWS’ most popular cloud storage services. While Amazon…
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the basics of AWS IAM. Now, I’ll present a number of advanced implementations for AWS IAM—focusing on multi-account use cases—that could prove…
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is likely the first AWS service you’ll encounter when getting started on AWS, as it is Amazon’s authentication and authorization service. Virtually all other AWS…
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was one of the first cloud storage services launched by Amazon back in 2006. Offering highly durable and always available storage, S3 allows you to…
In the first part of this two-post series, I explained the core concepts behind multicloud networking. I also discussed necessary protocols, the relevant networking services offered by the three major…
Containers have revolutionized the industry by making it easy to deploy applications to production. They do this by providing process separation, which makes it easy to run your applications as…
Serverless technology has made it possible to deploy code without knowing anything about the underlying server infrastructure. As a result, running code in the cloud has never been easier. AWS…
In 2019, Gartner predicted that by 2021 up to 75% of large and midsize organizations would be running some variation of multicloud environments. This IT trend is due in part…
Serverless comes with the promise of infinite scalability, but what does this mean in practice? Services like AWS Lambda don’t magically scale up to thousands of parallel invocations in an…
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