In the wake of Google’s Next ’17 event, and a slew of recent Reserved Instance changes by Amazon Web Services (AWS), it seemed appropriate to compare to see if...
New APIs expand the use for AWS Tags
Amazon recently announced some new features around tagging permissions that make tags considerably more useful. Although this just came out, I already see a few areas where...
HIPAA on AWS the Easy Way
Many of our customers are running workloads that are subject to HIPAA regulations. Running these on AWS is definitely doable, but there are some catches....
Take our DevOps Code… Please!
At Foghorn, we’ve been writing modular DevOps code for many years. Over time, we have developed a set of modules that represent about 80% of our customers needs,...
DevOps Muscle for the Crossfit Games
As we approach the Crossfit games once again, I thought I’d share some detail on how Foghorn helped Crossfit update their DevOps processes for the 2016 games....
Business Risk? Or Assurance
With the announcement that Snapchat has gone ‘all in’ on Google Cloud Platform, Snap has incorporated this plan into their financial filings as an...
Terraform beats CloudFormation to the Punch with Inspector Support
Cloud Neutral DevOps HashiCorp makes some of our favorite DevOps tools. Along with being feature rich, stable, and well designed, they are cloud neutral. This allows...
Who’s Managing your Cloud?
After designing, building and managing hundreds of environments, sometimes we get a little too deep in the weeds with our blogs. So I thought I’d share this...
Disney goes Hybrid; Shares Challenges
Ian Murphy recently wrote a great article on Disney’s journey to the Hybrid Cloud. The lightning talk, given by Blake White, highlighted the issues that...
Crunching HIPAA data just got cheaper
With the recent AWS announcement, AWS customers can now leverage spot instances to crunch their HIPAA big data workloads. This can help decrease the compute...
