Limiting the Blast Radius of Deployment Systems

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLimiting the Blast Radius of Deployment Systems If you are following best practices, you have adopted a multi-account strategy for your cloud applications, with different workloads spread across different accounts. Users log in to one account and assume roles in other accounts as needed. Even your build system lives in a tools…

AWS ElastiCache for Redis as Application Cache

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS ElastiCache for Redis as Application Cache In the modern cloud computing world, most applications use caching to reduce latency and improve performance for read-heavy workloads. In any application, caching plays an important role and can be applied to various layers such as database, UI layer (Session Management), file system, and operating…

This Week in Security News: Intel Says ‘Tiger Lake’ Will Drown Control-Flow Malware and New Phishing Campaign Targeting Office 365 Exploits Brand Names

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThis Week in Security News: Intel Says ‘Tiger Lake’ Will Drown Control-Flow Malware and New Phishing Campaign Targeting Office 365 Exploits Brand Names Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn…

One-Click access to servers and VMs with Session Manager and MontyCloud

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedOne-Click access to servers and VMs with Session Manager and MontyCloud IT administrators and DevOps engineers often perform routine operations to manage their cloud infrastructure, modern on-premises environment workloads, and applications. One such routine operation is the ability to manage Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, and virtual machines (VM) through a remote…

Building well-architected serverless applications: Approaching application lifecycle management – part 3

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding well-architected serverless applications: Approaching application lifecycle management – part 3 This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the…