Simplifying declarative deployments in Azure

By Dustin Ward

Azure provides customers a simple and intuitive way to declaratively provision and manage infrastructure through Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. You can describe your entire Azure environment using template language, and then use your favorite CI/CD or scripting tool to stand up this environment in minutes. The ARM template language takes the form of JSON…

Software Patch Management Using AWS Serverless CICD

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSoftware Patch Management Using AWS Serverless CICD Cloud computing adoption has been rapidly increasing with enterprises around the globe opting for various migration patterns during their Cloud journey. Taking monolithic legacy applications as-is and moving them to the cloud is an approach also known as “lift-and-shift” and is one of the main…

Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Redshift materialized views support external tables Amazon Redshift adds materialized view support for external tables. With this enhancement, you can create materialized views in Amazon Redshift that reference external data sources such as Amazon S3 via Spectrum, or data in Aurora or RDS PostgreSQL via federated queries.  

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…