For those who follow public cloud, summer is the season of AWS Summits in the U.S. The Amazon Web Services Channel on YouTube posted the playlists for the DC Public Sector Summit and New York Summit. Konekti had several representatives at the Public Sector Summit and I discussed it in a previous post. We did […]
For those who follow public cloud, summer is the season of AWS Summits in the U.S. The Amazon Web Services Channel on YouTube posted the playlists for the DC Public Sector Summit and New York Summit. Konekti had several representatives at the Public Sector Summit and I discussed it in a previous post. We did […]
Amir and I represented Konekti at the AWS Public Sector Summit in DC last week. What a great event! I’ve enjoyed the summit events as they aren’t as hectic as the annual re:Invent conferences. We had the opportunity to chat with people we know in the public cloud community as well as meet new people. […]
IT workloads require uninterrupted connectivity whether in the cloud or physical data centers. Network engineers know from experience that the elimination of single points of failure in the network is the key to high availability. One Internet edge router? Let’s make that two with one ISP circuit homed to each. Think you can get away […]
AWS uses names such as us-west-1a to refer to a given availability zone (AZ) in a region. What you may not know is that AZ naming is intentionally inconsistent across accounts. In other words, the us-west-1a in the Konekti AWS production account is not necessarily the same as the us-west-1a in your account. AWS uses […]
AWS CloudFormation is a tool to create a template for your infrastructure. You can define AWS constructs using JSON or YAML. AWS’s documentation is well-suited for explaining the basic functionality and simple resource creation. After creating a few stacks, a newcomer would likely want to learn how to increase template portability and re-use with intrinsic […]