How to implement the principle of least privilege with CloudFormation StackSets

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to implement the principle of least privilege with CloudFormation StackSets AWS CloudFormation is a service that lets you create a collection of related Amazon Web Services and third-party resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. A typical access control pattern is to delegate permissions for users to interact with CloudFormation…

Governance in the AWS Cloud: The Right Balance Between Agility and Safety

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedGovernance in the AWS Cloud: The Right Balance Between Agility and Safety By Paolo Latella, Cloud Practice Manager and APN Ambassador at Claranet Italia Cloud infrastructure provides more agility and responsiveness than traditional IT environments. This requires organizations to think differently about how they design, build, and manage applications. Cloud resources are disposable, and…

Building a serverless tracking pixel solution in AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuilding a serverless tracking pixel solution in AWS Let’s describe the typical use case where a tracking pixel solution, also known as a web beacon, might help you: Analyzing web traffic is critical to understanding user behavior in order to improve their experience. Let’s think about a company—Example Company Hotels—that embeds a piece of…

Expanding our DR scenarios to new zonal capabilities with Azure Site Recovery

By Dustin Ward

Azure provides high availability, disaster recovery, and backup solutions that can enable your applications to meet business availability requirements and recovery objectives. We continue to build upon our portfolio of resilient services by bringing zonal capabilities for improved business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. Azure Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical…

Advancing Azure business continuity management

By Dustin Ward

“Microsoft Azure has always been committed to providing highly reliable, available, and recoverable services to our customers. This customer-focused passion is reflected at every level in the Microsoft Azure Business Continuity Management (BCM) program. At the direction of the Microsoft board of directors, in 2007 we established a comprehensive risk program including the BCM program…