Developing Migration and Rapid Application Development Strategies for SAP S/4HANA on AWS

By Dustin Ward

By Navjot Sharma, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLPBy Manas Srivastava, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Migrating from an on-premises SAP environment to SAP S/4HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can appear intimidating, particularly for organizations that have little experience with cloud infrastructure. There’s good reason for caution: shifting mission-critical workloads without proper planning…

ECS blue/green deployments through CodeDeploy

By Dustin Ward

You can now use CloudFormation to perform ECS blue/green deployments through CodeDeploy. Blue/green deployments are a safe deployment strategy provided by AWS CodeDeploy for minimizing interruptions caused by changing application versions.

Monitoring AWS Elemental MediaStore with Amazon CloudWatch metrics

By Dustin Ward

Many customers have built live streaming workflows using AWS Elemental MediaStore as a high performant live video origin in the cloud. For example, FOX recently used MediaStore as a low latency origin for its AWS-enabled production workflow for Super Bowl LIV. In a previous blog post, I explained how to use MediaStore access logs to…

Introduction to Puppet Fundamentals

By Dustin Ward

Scalability is the primary and most critical demand of enterprises in the present times. Technology is focusing more on distributed and virtual resources as compared to traditional on-premises systems. In addition, new domains such as DevOps is changing the conventional ways of operation of development and operations teams. If you have heard a lot about…

Monitor AWS services used by Kubernetes with Prometheus and PromCat

By Dustin Ward

AWS offers Amazon CloudWatch to provide observability of the operational health for your AWS resources and applications through logs, metrics, and events. CloudWatch is a great way to monitor and visualize AWS resources metrics and logs. Recently I’ve found that some customers are adopting Prometheus as their monitoring standard because it offers the ability to…