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...
When Security Best Practices Conflict – AWS KMS vs Whitelists
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...
Optimizing Cloud Spend – When Context Counts
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...
To NAT or to Proxy, That is the Question…
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...
