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Time to re:Invent ourselves again! AWS‘s annual conference, re:Invent, is just over a month away. Hands up who is excited? This year will be our fifth visit to re:Invent, held in Las Vegas. Suffice to say, we have seen it grow and grow since our first year in 2013. Every year it gets bigger and better and every year AWS announce a whole swag of new and exciting innovations. This […]
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AWS has been expanding their Systems Manager tool over the last year, adding a number of important features. Session Manager is the latest piece of the puzzle. It’s a seriously handy addition to the tool. In a nutshell, it allows anyone with the specific rights to access an EC2 instance without the private keys. Wait? What? Surely that’s insecure? Or is it? Let’s step back and talk about Systems Manager […]
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The AWS Sydney Summit 2018 rolled into town last week. Outside of re:Invent, AWS’s flagship global summit, Sydney hosts the largest AWS summit in the world. Bigger than San Francisco. Bigger than New York. Bigger than London. Over 20 000 attendees registered for the event. This year, it expanded to 3 days and moved to the ICC at Darling Harbour. For the first time, RedBear IT were exhibitors at the event. We […]
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AWS’s re:Invent may be over for another year but the announcements keep on coming! Our heads are still spinning from all the excitement and innovations (see our wrap up post) but AWS haven’t stopped. This week AWS released their Single Sign On (SSO) service. A few years ago, this would have made the cut at re:Invent but this year, with all the other releases something had to give. It’s an important service […]
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AWS re:Invent 2017 has drawn to close and what a whirlwind week it was! We hardly had time to draw breath between the announcements, sessions and people to meet and greet. For us, it was the best yet. As our fourth re:invent participation, we like to think that we can say that with a good level of insight. The pace of innovation continues to grow at AWS. The AWS Cloud platform now […]
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Yep, it’s been another day of super interesting announcements at re:Invent today. Once again, we provide our highlights from the announcements. Inter-region peering For solutions that need to be global or need protection from the chance of region outages, the ability to natively peer VPCs between regions will be welcome. Until today, you had to manage the inter-region connectivity yourself using VPNs and other infrastructure over the public internet or […]
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There has been a heap of super exciting announcements at re:Invent today. It was really hard to pick only a few amongst a plethora of amazing new services and enhancements but here are our top picks. Kubernetes We knew this was coming. AWS is the most common used platform for Kubernetes container-based deployments. Before today, this was entirely self-managed on top of EC2 instances. Now you can take advantage of […]
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Is connecting over the internet a concern? Enter, PrivateLink For organisations that are ultra concerned about keeping their services private, especially Financial Services, one of the bug bears of using the AWS public Cloud environment is can be that all the AWS services need to be accessed over the Internet using public addressing. Not any more. Terry Wise of AWS has just announced PrivateLink at re:Invent (see the what’s new article) . It’s a new service […]
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There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza… Recently, there have been a number of high profile leakages of data as a result of customer configuration of AWS S3 buckets. Let’s be clear here, this is not a problem with the AWS S3 platform. Potentially sensitive data is being stored in S3 buckets that have been set up as publicly available. It’s the kind of headline you don’t want, especially if […]
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Early ideals in multi-cloud In the early days of Cloud, there was much talk of a multi-cloud approach. As the number of public Cloud providers grew, and then subsequently shrunk, solutions emerged to enable multi-cloud. “You can move workloads between Cloud providers” they promised. “Avoid vendor lock in”. Did they deliver what they promised, and, more importantly was it a problem for which we needed a solution? Adoption of a […]
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