The AWS Backup service is a fully managed service to centralise and automate backups in AWS. The backup policies, permissions and tasks are consolidated into one place. Customers commonly use AWS Backup for RDS (database) snapshots. When deciding whether to use the service, a common question is: what are the

Our Cloud Pathway virtual meet-up focused on cloud migration delving into practical advice for preparing, planning and migrating applications to AWS. Speakers and hosts at the event brought a wealth of experience in adopting the AWS platform for critical business workloads, and a variety of perspectives on: defining a strategy,

An introduction to Amazon CloudFront (Content Delivery Network), AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall), and related services. Content delivery networks (CDN) and web application firewalls (WAF) are excellent for improving performance and security of your web-based applications. There are great offerings such as Imperva FlexProtect and Cloudflare. Alternatively, choosing AWS services

Getting a shell on an EC2 instance can be a pain. It’s a classic security vs convenience tradeoff: AWS best practices would have you put important infrastructure in private subnets with restricted routing and no Internet-facing IP addresses. But every step to secure an instance makes it less convenient to

While the cloud can unlock innovation and agility, it’s easy to lose visibility and control of costs along the way. Finance teams accustomed to traditional IT projects often struggle with the opaque and variable costs associated with cloud platforms, while application teams may not understand the budgeting and fiduciary responsibility