A Better Way to Manage Internet Access for VPC Resources Anyone who has run OpsWorks stacks with private instances relying on NAT for Internet access may have seen firsthand...
Security Groups got you down? Get Security Flow!
Here at Foghorn Consulting, we’ve been designing, implementing, and managing point to point security with AWS security groups for years. Security groups allow an...
Is your VMware humming, or is it leaking oil?
You’re paying good money for those VMware licenses, and the promise is to help you maximize resource utilization while decreasing management costs and providing high...
The Reality around Cloud Lock-in Risk
Recently I’ve heard many in the industry discussing the risks of cloud lock-in, so I thought I’d give my take on it. I hope you find these helpful, please...
Highly Available Network Address Translation, that friend you love to hate…
if you care about security, you should care about NAT Who is NAT and what is HA? As we outlined in our last blog, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Virtual Private Cloud...
Get the most out of your VPC
A brief history of VPC Amazon Web Services introduced the Virtual Private Cloud for general availability back in 2009, but VPC has undergone a major transformation. VPC was...
Follow the CloudTrail
At re:Invent 2013 Amazon Web Services launched CloudTrail, a service which exposes the log files of all API actions that occur within the AWS accounts of those who enable...
Size Matters
We are a small company. We make no apologies for that. As our competition continues to raise millions of dollars in funds, give away their services to snag market share,...
Foghorn Gets AWS Accredited
In any new space, the process of building formal accreditation plans takes a bit of time. Currently Amazon Web Services has two courses for partners, a business tract and a...
Capacity Management – Cloud Style
The Perfect Capacity Curve We’ve all seen the picture which clearly depicts the easiest cloud computing benefit to visualize – capacity on demand. Here it is one...
