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 bigger companies. At first, with a small group [...]
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 designed in 2012 looked a lot different [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) publishes their opinions of best practice architectures, and has historically performed Well Architected Reviews for key customers. Recently, Amazon has enlisted a small group of partners to join them in performing [...]
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 costs of these jobs by up to 90%, making EC2 a [...]
24x7 environments are handy, but are they required for Dev and Test? I'm going to assume your development team is not leveraging development environments 24 hours a day 7 days a week. That is to [...]
ElasticBeanstalk is AWS' PaaS, and it's a powerful platform to accelerate application delivery in AWS' cloud. That said, I have come across a few things that have been stumbling blocks for some users of [...]
The day has arrived when every company, not just those at Google-scale, can achieve high availability and scale without a linear increase in operational cost. That’s what FOG-OPS is all about—leveraging Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, [...]
A while back AWS EBS encryption moved to using KMS (Key Management Service). This was a welcome change as KMS is a great service that enables some interesting security models around different AWS customers sharing [...]
A little while ago, I was asked by a customer to help them lower their Amazon Web Services monthly spend. They were currently spending about $8,000 per month, and set an internal goal to get [...]
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 what danger lurks beneath the surface. These instances will [...]
