Archives for AWS - Page 13
Going from VMWare to EC2 or EC2 to VMWare
Going from VMWare to EC2 is possible - but not seamless. For if your AWS EC2 instance has additional components (S3 buckets, ELBs in front etc.), those need to…
Troubleshooting AWS Network performance
AWS Symptom : Entire VPC is slow? Is it just (access to) a single EC2 instance that is slow? Other EC2 instances are fast? Have you tried accessing it from…
AWS–DDoS prevention
Just how much can a DDoS attack cost you? True story of combating a DDoS attack
Some AWS Decisions that need to be made UPFRONT– Use CloudFront
CloudFront – Content distribution Network (CDN) If security - and future proofing your AWS assets - is a concern, then start incorporating CloudFront as part of all your AWS solutions.…
Load balancers in AWS
ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) is somewhat of a misnomer. While it does provide a way to distribute load across a server farm, it can be used for far more than…
Private IP Addresses–available publicly–AWS NATting
Within the VPC (logical partition of the AWS public cloud), you can define your desired IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and so forth. You can also connect…
Enterprise Software Licensing– mapping to cloud instances
Your company spent a gazillion dollars purchasing the next Enterprise Software (which, by the way, is a dying class of software – being obsoleted by Software as a Service). The…
Firewalls versus Security Groups–AWS
Also read AWS NACLs versus Security Groups and Service Accounts as an intelligent firewall option on GCP Security Groups are like ALLOW/DENY firewall rules – either allowing individual connections or…
Security Concerns in AWS–Introducing the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
One way to get around all security concerns in AWS is to create what is called a Virtual Private ; A VPC can be considered as an extension of your…
Using the AWS Calculator for pricing your infrastructure costs
Different Instance Types The Calculator It is easy to mess up on the AWS calculator. Here are the top 4 things that I have gotten wrong on various ; Whenever…