The Apache® Brooklyn™ project announced its 1.0 release. Apache Brooklyn is a tool for managing the deployment, in-life management, and termination of applications. It excels at managing complex applications that are built from many different components spanning multiple hosts, multiple regions, and even multiple cloud providers. It’s great at working

I think one of the most interesting announcements from re:Invent was the Custom Resource provider for AWS CloudFormation because it let’s you: Unify infrastructure-as-code: Nowadays, a number of systems exist to automate provisioning and management of IT resources: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Chef/Puppet, etc. By using the AWS Custom Resource

02 October 2019 – Cloudsoft, a UK-based Advanced Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) that specialises in helping businesses migrate applications to AWS, announced today that it has achieved status. This designation recognises that Cloudsoft provides DevOps expertise to help customers implement Continuous Integration and

AWS Transit Gateway was launched at Re:Invent November 2018 – it can massively simplify networking that involves multiple VPCs, VPNs and shared services. This post covers the following points: Use Case (Simplified) Transit Gateway Concepts Setup Instructions Transit Gateway Setup Next Steps Other Use Cases Use Case (Simplified) I have

On July 16th, the City Business Club held an event at the Metro Bank London headquarters following a survey they had circulated. What became obvious after analysing the results of this survey was that most businesses care deeply about application resilience but few actually have policies in place to address