Limiting access using geographic restrictions
The world is on fire. We’re heading towards - or exactly it already is - a humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking footage from the war. Thousands of homeless people fighting and fearing for their lives. I’ve written this blog to help. I do know that a large number of government websites are hosted on AWS.
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia is expanding with cyber warfare. There is fighting on the ground, but also online. Government websites are taken down, broadcasting companies are being hacked, etc. Everything is done to manipulate and disrupt communication technologies. Although most attacks will be sophisticated, there are some simple measurements in AWS you can take to make it more difficult for attackers. It will not be 100% waterproof. Hackers often use Tor-networks and Command and Control-machines. But every bit helps.
Continue readingAmazon Inspector 2 - What's new?
Six years after the initial launch AWS announced the new Amazon Inspector. The launch took place during re:Invent 2021. With this launch the previous version has been renamed to Amazon Inspector Classic. The new Amazon Inspector is rearchitected to support a wider range of workloads and simplified workflow management.
Scale with simplified management
The management of Inspector 2 has been simplified. Enabling and configuring the service can be done with a few API calls or, if you persist on manual labor, a few clicks in ClickOps. To give an idea of the steps needed to enable Inspector for both existing and new member accounts, the steps are listed below.
Continue readingExploring FinOps KPI's to measure the true value of the cloud
Michel Zitman (Cloud Financial Management Practice Lead at Oblivion) shares his best practices on how to build efficient FinOps KPIs and demonstrates the importance they have on your FinOps Governance. Cloud cost management appears to be a challenging subject in the majority of organizations. From our experience we have concluded that 35% of cloud spend is actually wasted as a result of over-provisioned resources alone. And given the fact that, on a global scale, we are only at the beginning of cloud adoption, it’s time for action.
Continue readingKeeping up with your cloud knowledge
Livestream session to talk with Maheshwar, Developer Evangelist at AWS, about how to keep up to date with your knowledge on AWS.
Guests: Sohan Maheshwar (AWS)
Best practices for optimizing cost and performance of your Microsoft workloads on AWS
Why is it important to optimize costs? TCO has two main components: infrastructure cost and software licenses cost. The usual optimization scenario is when a customer wants to find compute, storage and licensing configuration that reaches the desired performance level at minimum cost. When you run SQL Server workloads, licensing makes up the majority of the TCO, so this is where you want to optimize. In this session we are going to cover basics of Microsoft licensing on AWS and best practices for compute and licensing optimization of SQL Server workloads on AWS. And finally we will discuss how AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) can help you to see potential cost savings when migrating your Windows Workloads to AWS.
Continue readingDSM's cloud native journey
Together with Mark Boon (Senior Digital Engineer @ DSM), Andrès Koetsier (cloud consultant at Oblivion) goes in-dept into how DSM adopted a cloud-native way of working to rapidly develop new applications to solve sustainable challenges.
Guests: Mark Boon (DSM) and Andrès Koetsier (Oblivion)
Data & Security in the cloud
Martijn Doedens (Cloud Security Consultant at Oblivion) and Niels Zeilemaker (CTO at GoDataDriven) summarise the current state of secure data processing in the (AWS) cloud. We cover the specific services related to data and the services that are used to standardise secure landing zone, actual risks and threats that our customers face when processing big data on AWS and which configurations (aka best practices) you should always implement.
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