While it is possible to use a proprietary Azure resource manager template in JSON format to define your Azure infrastructure or an AWS JSON CloudFormation template to define...
Automating Cloud Passage firewall management
Halo, by Cloud Passage, is a great tool to ensure compliance across a hybrid infrastructure. When it comes to security, some organizations have made incredible strides to...
Battle of the PaaS. AWS vs Google Cloud Platform
In the wake of Google’s Next ’17 event and the AWS San Francisco Summit 2017, I wanted to continue the AWS vs GCP comparison series. In this part...
AWS and GCP, Account vs Project Boundaries
One of the most interesting differences between GCP and AWS is how each vendor recommends you isolate the blast radius of functional teams. AWS will tell you that in all...
Real World Cost Example for Google and AWS
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...
