In discussions of cloud computing and data center migrations, the question of “sticker shock” sometimes comes up. Sticker shock is real, but as we’ll show in this series of...
Secrets Management Made Easy on AWS
Cost of Automating vs. Cost of Managing Secrets management is one of those things that becomes more and more important as successful small companies grow into successful...
Securing Egress Traffic for HITRUST Compliance
We have several clients who have struggled in the past with meeting the HITRUST requirements specifically around DLP and domain based whitelisting of egress traffic in AWS. ...
Get Smart About Your Cloud Migration
Migrating to the cloud can be tough. Often, and with good reason, organizations opt for incremental changes when adopting new technologies. But at some level, even a...
Getting Security Right with AWS Native Services
At Foghorn, we spend lots of time helping design and build secure infrastructure running on AWS. Heck, we’ve got an entire security practice devoted to it. What we...
Simplify your Terraform Code with Advanced Functions
Terraform – Declarative but Powerful For years, Foghorn has been helping our clients to automate their infrastructure via code. Doing so enables them to have...
Win the Battle Against CM Dependency Errors
Dependencies got you down? Find them! Many of us end up with lots of dependencies in our configuration management code. Whether it’s community cookbooks or package...
Foghorn Achieves AWS Well Architected Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes their opinions of best practice architectures, and has historically performed Well Architected Reviews for key customers. Recently,...
Get.. and KEEP.. HITRUST Certification in the cloud
If you are managing any Protected Health Information (PHI), you need to be HIPAA compliant. HIPAA is a law that contains guidelines and responsibilities but is not audited...
Peer Review – Using Terraform and Lambda to automate VPC Peering
Terraform as a Foundation Terraform is really great. As someone who has spent the better part of the past decade codifying cloud infrastructure, there is an inexorable groan...
