Category: AWS Cloud + Public Cloud + Databases

04 Mar 2021 AWS Cloud 👁 13 views

AWS: Please Fix Poor Error Messages, API standards and Bad Defaulting

This is a short blog, and its actually just simple a plea to AWS. Please can you do three things? North Virginia appears to be the AWS master node. Having this region as a master region causes a large number of support issues (for example S3, KMS, Cloudfront, ACM all use this pet region and […]

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28 Jan 2021 AWS Cloud 👁 13 views

Part 1: The Great Public Cloud Crusade…

The cloud is hot…. not just a little hot, but smokin hot!! Covid is messing with the economy, customers are battling financially, the macro economic outlook is problematic, vendor costs are high and climbing and security needs more investment every year. What on earth do we do??!! I know…. lets start a crusade – lets […]

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20 Oct 2020 AWS Cloud 👁 15 views

Example IAM Policy to Enforce EBS encryption

Here is a useful IAM conditional policy which will force EBS volumes to be encrypted when created by an EC2 instances.

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