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The AWS Love/Hate Relationship with Data Gravity
I received the e-mail above from Amazon Web Services after recently signing up for another test account. The e-mail had me thinking about the impact of data gravity on AWS, both positively and...
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AWS 101: Learning About Regions and Availability Zones
In their most recent earnings call, Amazon reported that their Amazon Web Services division has reached a $14.2 billion run rate. As impressive as that is, AWS and the entire cloud market still only...
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AWS 201: Learning About Default VPC
To set the stage for explaining Amazon Web Services Virtual Private Clouds, I previously walked through AWS Regions and Availability Zones in another blog post. With that as the foundation, we can...
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Thoughts On The AWS Outage
Tuesday, February 28th, was a bad day for AWS and for AWS users who relied on the US-East-1 Region in Northern Virginia to run their business and/or to serve their customers. I won’t rehash what...
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My Next Chapter: Something Old… Something New
Some friends recently remarked that I have been usually quiet on my blog and even on social media the past couple of months. However, that is about to change with what I am announcing today. The...
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AWS 301: Creating A Custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – Networking
A while back, I wrote a blog post walking through the components of a default AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Now that I am at Rubrik and have more freedom to continue, I will go through how to...
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AWS 301: Creating A Custom Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – Security
If you haven’t yet, I recommend reading the other posts in this series before proceeding. AWS 101: Learning About Regions and Availability Zones AWS 202: Learning About Default VPC AWS 301: Creating A...
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Data Encryption in the Cloud, Part 4: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Due to the length of this blog post (20 pages), I’ve decided to make it available as a downloaded PDF which you can grab here. But I suggest reading the first section of this page before switching to...
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Shhh… Can You Keep A Secret? A First Look at AWS Secrets Manager
It’s no secret (pun intended) that cybersecurity is big news these days. On a daily basis, we are hearing about data breaches, leaked personal information and stolen passwords. Many of these incidents...
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Using AWS KMS Custom Key Store with CloudHSM to Encrypt Your Data
I tend to follow cloud security news closely these days, particularly anything related to data encryption. That’s why one of the AWS re:Invent announcements that was of most interest to me actually...
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