Why companies fail on cloud? A perspective from a cloud consultant Why companies fail on cloud? A perspective from a cloud consultant The cloud has become an increasingly popular destination for businesses looking to take advantage of its scalability, cost-effectiveness… Why companies fail on cloud? A perspective from a cloud consultant The cloud has become an increasingly popular destination for businesses looking to take advantage of its scalability, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. However, despite the many benefits that cloud computing offers, not all companies that move to the cloud are successful. As a cloud consultant, I have seen firsthand the reasons why some companies fail on the cloud. In this article, I will discuss the most common reasons why companies fail on the cloud and how they can avoid these pitfalls. Lack of Strategy One of the biggest mistakes that companies make when moving to the cloud is not having a clear strategy. They may have a vague idea of what...

AWS Tagging Strategies AWS Tagging Strategies Tags are metadata that you can assign to AWS resources such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and RDS databases. Tags are key-value pairs that… AWS Tagging Strategies Tags are metadata that you can assign to AWS resources such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and RDS databases. Tags are key-value pairs that allow users to label resources with information that is relevant to their business needs. Users can assign multiple tags to a resource, and tags can be searched, filtered, and used for cost allocation. Benefits of AWS Tagging Resource Management : Tags make it easy to manage resources by allowing users to filter and search for resources by tags. This makes it easy to find resources and keep track of them. Cost Allocation : Tags allow users to allocate costs to the correct department or business unit. This helps businesses to accurately track and allocate costs, making it easier to manage budgets. Security : Tags can be used to contr...

Opt Out For AWS Lambda Updates. Why and how? Opt Out For AWS Lambda Updates. Why and how? AWS Lambda is a Serverless computing platform that enables users to run code without having to manage servers. It provides a fully managed… Opt Out For AWS Lambda Updates. Why and how? AWS Lambda is a Serverless computing platform that enables users to run code without having to manage servers. It provides a fully managed environment for executing your code, which includes runtime, operating system, and system libraries. The AWS Lambda execution environment is the environment in which your Lambda function code is executed. It is an isolated environment that has its own resources and dependencies, and it runs on Amazon Linux, a distribution of Linux specifically designed for cloud computing. AWS Lambda automatically patches the underlying infrastructure for your functions, so you don’t have to worry about managing operating system or runtime updates. This includes security patches for the ...

What is Amazon Keyspaces? And why you should consider it What is Amazon Keyspaces? And why you should consider it Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. Apache… What is Amazon Keyspaces? And why you should consider it Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra ) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database that provides high scalability, performance, and fault tolerance. Cassandra is used to store and retrieve data in a key-value store. It is well-suited for applications such as real-time data collection, analytics, and reporting. Why Cassandra? Cassandra was developed at Facebook in 2007 and was open sourced in 2008. It was named after the mythical figure Cassandra, who had the gift of prophecy but was cursed never to be believed. This name reflects the developers’ goal of creating...

Default Encryption for new S3 Objects Default Encryption for new S3 Objects Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced a new feature for its Simple Storage Service (S3). This feature encrypts all new objects by… Default Encryption for new S3 Objects Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced a new feature for its Simple Storage Service (S3). This feature encrypts all new objects by default. S3 automatically applies server-side encryption (SSE-S3) for each new object. S3 buckets that do not use default encryption will use SSE-S3 as the default encryption option. Existing buckets currently using S3 default encryption will not change. You can always opt-in for different encryption options (SSE-KMS, SSE-C). Before default encryption, users had to manually verify that encryption was enabled for the S3 bucket and make sure that it stayed that way. This could be time-consuming and prone to mistakes, as many security issues were related to S3 public access. There are several benefit...

Create Your Own Wake-Up Call Service With AWS Pinpoint, Lambda and CDK Create Your Own Wake-Up Call Service With AWS Pinpoint, Lambda and CDK Wake-up call service is exactly what you would imagine, someone will call you to wake you up and make sure that you are awake. It is still… Create Your Own Wake-Up Call Service With AWS Pinpoint, Lambda and CDK Wake-up call service is exactly what you would imagine, someone will call you to wake you up and make sure that you are awake. It is still a common practice in hotels where hotel employees will wake you up via phone call. In this tutorial, we are going to build our own version using AWS Pinpoint, Lambda and CDK. If you haven’t heard the term CDK, it means Cloud Development Kit. It is a modern Infrastructure as a Code tool from AWS, it allows us to use common programming languages to provision cloud resources. We will be using AWS Pinpoint to make outbound phone calls, Lambda function to execute Pinpoint API call to initiate an outbo...