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Our 10 Favorite Announcements from Andy Jassy’s 2020 AWS re:Invent Keynote
If you watched Andy Jassy’s AWS re:Invent keynote presentation on December 1st or have watched an overview like what our friends at A Cloud Guru posted, you likely found many of the new features and services exciting. Well, we did too! Here are our Top 10 favorite...
3 Ways to Autoscale on AWS
In this article, we will be looking at three different methods of Autoscaling applications. We’ll also try to leverage AWS manged services as much as possible. Scaling is when similar resources are added or removed depending on demand, this is usually done manually....
What is AWS CloudFormation?
What is AWS CloudFormation? Simply put, CloudFormation is just Infrastructure as Code. What does that mean? How can that improve my DevOps team? Does it help my business? What about my IT budget? CloudFormation can help with all of those things, saving you time and...
What is Amazon Aurora?
What is Amazon Aurora? Is it a miracle? A gift from God? Or just simply a cloud engineering marvel that can help you and your company save time, money, and hours of frustrating downtime To keep it simple, Amazon Aurora is relational database engine that was built with...
Can you Afford Downtime on your App or Website?
We help you take care of your Uptime so you don’t have to. In this day and age, businesses need to have a strong web presence to succeed and grow in the market or industry they are in. A wise man once said, ‘with a strong web presence, comes great responsibility’....
Creating a LAMP Stack on AWS.
So, you want to create a LAMP Stack using AWS huh? First, what is a LAMP Stack and what makes it important? A LAMP Stack is a server configuration archetype that includes all of the necessary software and infrastructure to run a standalone web-application or website....
Top 3 Things we are Looking Forward to at re:Invent 2017
We are going back to Las Vegas for another re:Invent! re:Invent is an AWS conference featuring explosions of innovation, semi-truck sized portable hard-drives, and A LOT of learning. With over 30,000 attendees, it’s one of the largest technology...
How to install WordPress on AWS EC2 in 5 (fairly) easy steps
Do you feel adventurous? Time to try something new, ... like installing WordPress on your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 server (or in AWS vernacular, an instance). You've come to the right place. In this blog post I'll guide you step-by-step on how to do this....
Ready for AWS re:Invent 2016!
I'm very excited to attend my first AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. This year the event is even larger than last year's blow out AWS event. Unfortunately AWS re:Invent 2016 is now Sold out. Maybe you can still get a ticket from an AWS partner or from one of...
How to install AWS CLI on a Mac in 3 easy steps
If you have EC2 instances and other services running in AWS (Amazon Web Services) then at some point you may want to use a command line interface (CLI) instead of the AWS console. I have a Mac and was excited to see that the AWS CLI is also available for OS X (or...