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AWS CloudShell – Finally!

At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced many new services and service enhancements. One service that caught our eye was CloudShell. This feature added one of few services missing in AWS, direct access to a CLI based shell (this feature has been available in Azure and GCP for over a year). AWS CloudShell is a browser-based, pre-authenticated […]

Highlights from re:Invent 2020

Whilst many things were affected, the rate of innovation in the AWS Cloud wasn't one of them! One of the unexpected highlights from re:Invent 2020 was being able to watch sessions from the comfort of home. No 15 hour flights to Las Vegas were harmed in the making of this blog. No hangovers were required. [...]

Babelfish – retiring legacy?

Howev Another year, another re:Invent. In what has proved to be a year of change for everyone, AWS showed that cloud computing is no exception. There was no slowing in the pace of innovation by the leading public Cloud provider. New services and features abound. Amid a myriad a new service names, one stands out as being exceptionally […]

AWS Proton test drive

When AWS Proton was announced during Andy Jassy's re:Invent keynote, we were intrigued. We initially thought of it as a tool that could potentially change the way we build and manage platforms. As an organisation that does that for our customers, we understand the pain involved in creating and managing CloudFormation templates. We usually start [...]

Cloud Security Priorities 2021 webinar wrap up

This week, RedBear IT moderated a panel discussion webinar on Cloud Security priorities for 2021. The crazy year that is 2020 has been hugely challenging for security professionals with the sudden shift to remote working and the continued increase in cyber attacks. The expert panel reflected on the year. They also discussed their core priorities [...]

re:Invent 2020 keynote takeouts

And we are off! The re:Invent 2020 keynote has kicked off this year's rather different AWS re:Invent. In a normal year, upwards of 50 000 people would have descended on Las Vegas for a 4 day deep dive into the AWS platform and services. This year, we are all stuck behind our screens watching online! [...]

The AWS Network Firewall

The AWS Network Firewall was announced last week. It’s a new service for AWS VPCs that provides a high availability, managed network firewall. It’s features include stateful inspection, intrusion prevention and detection, and web filtering to protect your virtual networks on AWS. It is delivered as a fully managed service. This means that it automatically scales with [...]

re:Invent 2020 is coming

It’s that re:Invent time of year again. Like everything 2020, it’s all a little different this year. re:Invent 2020 has gone virtual! At RedBear we would normally be scurrying around getting ourselves ready for our annual trip to Vegas. re:Invent 2020 would have been our seventh visit to the event, having first attending the second ever running [...]

Somebody broke my AWS Landing Zone?

Last week I was updating an AWS Landing Zone environment to the latest version. It was late on a Thursday and I was running the upgrade in my own environment and having a few minor issues so I decided to come back in the morning to finish it off. Come the next morning, I re-ran [...]

Cyber attack? Five basics to adopt

Last week the Australian government announced that government services had been under a sustained cyber attack. They said it had been happening for a while and had the footprint of a nation state level attack. No breaches were revealed. Don't cyber attacks happen all the time? Well, yes, but this one was different. The key [...]