Azure Container Registry: Securing container workflows

By Dustin Ward

Securing any environment requires multiple lines of defense. Azure Container Registry recently announced the general availability of features like Azure Private Link, customer-managed keys, dedicated data-endpoints, and Azure Policy definitions. These features provide tools to secure Azure Container Registry as part of the container end-to-end workflow. Customer-managed keys By default, when you store images and…

Scheduling Jupyter notebooks on SageMaker ephemeral instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedScheduling Jupyter notebooks on SageMaker ephemeral instances It’s 5 PM on a Friday. You’ve spent all afternoon coding out a complex, sophisticated feature engineering strategy. It just started working on your Amazon SageMaker Studio t3.medium notebook, and all you want to do is plug this onto a massive instance, scale it out…

The Fear of Vendor Lock-in Leads to Cloud Failures

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThe Fear of Vendor Lock-in Leads to Cloud Failures   Vendor lock-in has been an often-quoted risk since the mid-1990’s. Fear that by investing too much with one vendor, an organization reduces their options in the future. Was this a valid concern? Is it still today?   The Risk Organizations walk a…