The case for and against Amazon Cognito

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedThe case for and against Amazon Cognito In light of recent news of Okta’s pending acquisition of Auth0 there’s been renewed discussion about where Amazon Cognito fits into the picture. It’s a question my clients often ask me, so here are my two cents. The case for Cognito Integration with other AWS services Cognito’s tight integration with…

Announcing preview of Azure Trusted Launch for virtual machines

By Dustin Ward

Persistent threats like bootkits and rootkits are sophisticated malware types that run with the same kernel-mode privileges as the operating system they infect. Using those privileges, they can hide themselves from diagnostic tools and antimalware, making them extremely difficult to detect and almost impossible to remove. That foothold is typically leveraged by malware to bypass…

Drive successful data-driven transformation—go limitless with Azure data

By Dustin Ward

Over the past year, it’s become clear that no business is immune to sudden changes. Embracing data as a strategic asset is key to remaining agile amidst uncertainty. Data can provide crucial insights to help you navigate complex situations, empower your employees to make better decisions, and create new customer experiences. The benefits to getting…

Choose the landing zone for your cloud adoption journey

By Dustin Ward

This post is co-authored by Thomas Maurer, Senior Cloud Advocate, Azure.  Tailwind Traders1 is a retail company that is looking to adopt Azure as part of their IT strategy. The IT team is familiar with deploying infrastructure on-premises and is now researching what they need to do in order to run their workloads on Azure. In this blog…