Category Archives: Blog

New Amazon EC2 C7gn Instances: Graviton3E Processors and Up To 200 Gbps Network Bandwidth

The C7gn instances that we previewed last year are now available and you can start using them today. The instances are designed for your most demanding network-intensive workloads (firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers, and so forth), data analytics, and tightly-coupled cluster computing jobs. They are powered by AWS Graviton3E processors and support up to 200 […]

Learn how to streamline and secure your SaaS applications at AWS Applications Innovation Day

Companies continue to adopt software as a service (SaaS) applications at a rapid clip, with recent research showing that the average SaaS portfolio now has at least 200 applications. While organizations purchase these purpose-built tools to make their employees more productive, they now must contend with growing security complexities, context switching, and data silos. If […]

Breaking Down the Challenges: Exploring Cloud Security Regulations 

Cloud computing has offered endless business possibilities and is undoubtedly becoming the catalyst for driving digital transformation for businesses worldwide. However, the rapid cloud adoption doesn’t guarantee robust data security and privacy for organizations and customers since cybercriminals try to sneak into business networks with new attacks. On the other hand, cloud security and privacy […]

AWS Week in Review – Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, Detective, Amazon S3 Dual Layer Encryption, Amazon Verified Permission – June 19, 2023

This week, I’ll meet you at AWS partner’s Jamf Nation Live in Amsterdam where we’re showing how to use Amazon EC2 Mac to deploy your remote developer workstations or configure your iOS CI/CD pipelines in the cloud. Last Week’s LaunchesWhile I was traveling last week, I kept an eye on the AWS News. Here are […]

Reshoring: The risks of swinging the pendulum too far

From the decades before the turn of the century until the global pandemic, great economic growth spread across the world, driving historic demand in commodities and consumer goods. But this economic growth, coupled with stringent labor laws, drove up labor costs. By sourcing materials and labor from countries with lower labor and manufacturing costs, businesses […]

Azure Container Registry Pricing: 2023 Guide

You are probably familiar with the concept of containerization and the role it plays in modern application development. One of the key elements in containerization is the container registry, which is where your container images are stored and managed. Microsoft Azure offers its own container registry service called Azure Container Registry (ACR). In this comprehensive […]

How GoDaddy Implemented a Multi-Region Event-Driven Platform at Scale

GoDaddy, a leading global provider of domain registration and web hosting services, has served over 84 million domains and 22 million customers since its establishment in 1997. Among its various internal systems, the Customer Signal Platform provides tooling to capture, analyze, and act on customer and product data to drive better business outcomes. With this […]

Moving IBM Db2 on Cloud instances to MZRs

Moving forward, all IBM DB2 on Cloud instances in Toronto and Sao Paulo must be moved to the multi-zone regions (MZRs). Multi-zone regions are a modernized approach to resource deployment that provide better resiliency, availability and consistent cloud services across different zones. They also provide higher interconnect speed between data centers for your resources. Future […]

Know your real clients: Use PROXY protocol on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

As of 14 June 2023, PROXY protocol is supported for Ingress Controllers in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud clusters hosted on VPC infrastructure. Introduction Modern software architectures often include multiple layers of proxies and load balancers. Preserving the IP address of the original client through these layers is challenging, but might be required for […]