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 blog posts, it’s due to [...]
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 [...]
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 life-and-shift migration will require at least a [...]
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 [...]
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 from my vicinity when someone insists we [...]
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 though, I wanted to focus on each public cloud [...]
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 likelihood, you will need at [...]
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 anything in the public cloud VM [...]
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 we can simplify automation scripts. More importantly, since we [...]
