Weekly roundup of VMware and virtualization news, including vSphere updates, AWS insights, and HA configuration guides.
Guide to creating consistent Windows Server backups using AWS EBS Snapshots, Microsoft VSS, and AWS Systems Manager for scheduling.
Analysis of a major AWS S3 outage, its widespread impact, and key lessons for building resilient, fault-tolerant cloud architectures.
Reflects on 2016's trend of increased collaboration between major tech vendors like VMware, AWS, and Microsoft, contrasting it with recent tensions.
A 2017 tech trends analysis focusing on AI/ML advancements in cloud platforms and the rise of hybrid cloud/hyperconverged infrastructure.
Final summary of a project exploring ETL offload to Apache Spark on AWS EMR, evaluating cost and tech benefits for a cloud-based data platform.
Explores using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR to offload and improve ETL processes, comparing it to traditional Oracle-based solutions.
Announcing the launch of a product image classification API for fashion, built with deep learning, with details on performance and usage.
A guide to using an AWS CloudFormation template for standardizing the configuration of new linked accounts, including security and administrative roles.
Highlights from VMworld Europe 2016 Day 2, covering key announcements like vSphere 6.5, VSAN 6.5, and the VMware-AWS partnership.
A guide to automating AWS EBS snapshot creation and cross-region copying using PowerShell for disaster recovery purposes.
A guide to deploying AWS AutoScale groups with Windows instances that automatically join a domain and rename themselves using CloudFormation and PowerShell.
Explains why AWS EBS volumes from snapshots have slower initial disk performance and how to pre-read the disk to trigger block resets for accurate testing.
A collection of practical Terraform tips and lessons learned, covering AWS security groups, VPC configuration, and common pitfalls.
A developer's post-mortem on a Terraform outage and a guide on why and how to use separate tfstate files per environment.
A developer shares lessons on managing multiple AWS environments, networking, and security automation, debunking outdated practices.
A developer shares their initial two-week experience with Terraform, detailing the highs of versioned infrastructure and the lows of debugging and module refactoring.
AWS explains its infrastructure and disaster preparedness to ensure high availability and reliability for hosted applications during major weather events.
Introducing letsencrypt-aws, a tool to automate Let's Encrypt SSL certificate issuance and renewal for AWS infrastructure like ELBs.
A developer's experience and lessons learned from using Kubernetes for Docker container orchestration in a data processing project.
