AWS Is How Financial Services Builds On

By Dustin Ward

AWS provides financial services institutions across banking, payments, capital markets, and insurance with the secure, resilient global cloud infrastructure and services they need to differentiate themselves today and adapt to the needs of tomorrow. Through continuous innovation, AWS delivers the most stringent security requirements in the world, the greatest breadth and depth of services, deep…

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with external Microsoft Active Directory

By Dustin Ward

Earlier this year, we launched support for Aurora PostgreSQL user authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory. In the original release, this support was based on AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory. We have now added support for user authentication using external Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directories, including those running on premises.

Preparation Guide for Puppet 206 Certification Exam

By Dustin Ward

One of the notable technological advancements in recent times, DevOps, has completely transformed the way of IT operations. DevOps experts are capable of finding high-paying jobs in various notable enterprises all over the world. Therefore, the demand for certifications in popular DevOps tools such as Puppet is increasing considerably. If you are searching for ideal…

Implementing Amazon Inspector in Automated AMI Pipelines

By Dustin Ward

This is part two of a two part series on Amazon Inspector. This article is about implementing Amazon Inspector in automated AMI pipelines. The first article is an Introduction to Amazon Inspector.Automated security scanning is an essential part of DevSecOps, however setting the scanning up can be cumbersome. This quickstart incorporates Amazon Inspector and helps…