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Common Cloud Misperceptions
Hello Cloud fans, Today I’d like to talk to you about some commonly perceived cloud myths that Iâ€...
Getting the Most Bang for your AWS Buck
Cloud computing continues to redefine itself as more customers begin their “Journey to the cloud.â...
AWS Lowers Cloud Computing Costs AGAIN
Last week, AWS announced their 42nd price reduction since 2008. This significant cut impacts many of...
Cloud Myth Busters
Yes, I know, everyone is tired of hearing about the Cloud. It seems like talk about the cloud happen...
Increasing Your Cloud Footprint
The jump to the cloud can be a scary proposition. For an enterprise with systems deeply embedded i...
Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Psychology of Implementation
As Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to develop their enterprise adoption strategy, we sometimes f...
Resisting Cloud: The Human Factor
The human factor of IT embracing the cloud must always be taken into consideration. Cloud computing ...
Enabling Growth and Watching the Price
One of the main differentiators between traditional on premise data centers and Cloud Computing thro...
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Dealing with organizational change is a challenge in today’s fast-paced business environment. Lo...
Cloud Security: AWS
There are four main reasons why companies are moving to the cloud. They include: agility, availabili...
How Secure is Amazon Cloud?
There have been numerous articles, blogs, and whitepapers about the security of the Cloud as a busin...
What is CloudTrail?
Amazon Web Servicesâ„¢ (AWS) released a new service at re:invent a few weeks ago that will have oper...
The next frontier: recovering in the cloud
The pervasive technology industry has created the cloud and all the acronyms that go with it.  ...
Disaster Recovery – Don’t wait until it’s too late!
October 28th marked the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the epic storm that ravaged the Nor...
AWS DR in Reverse!
Amazon and 2nd Watch have published numerous white papers and blog articles on various ways to use A...
Storage Gateway with Amazon Web Services
Backup and disaster recovery often require solutions that add complexity and additional cost to prop...
Cloudformation Parameters and Outputs
An Introduction to CloudFormation One of the most powerful services in the AWS collection set is Clo...
Operational Framework
Cloud Services are becoming more commonplace in the Enterprise. As a result, our ability to learn fr...
AWS Sticky Sessions
Amazon Web Services best practices tell us to build for stateless systems, in a perfect world any se...
Disaster Recovery on Amazon Web Services
After a seven-year career at Cisco, I am thrilled to be working with 2nd Watch to help make cloud wo...
AWS Auto-Scaling
Auto-Scaling gives the ability to scale your EC2 instances up or down according to demand to handle ...
Distributed Functional Testing on AWS
To leverage the full benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features such as instant elasticity a...
Digging into Route 53 DNS Services
Earlier this month, AWS announced that it was integrating its Route 53 DNS service with its CloudWat...
The Hidden Savings of Cloud
There are an endless supply of articles talking about “the dangers of the hidden costs of cloud co...
AWS S3-Glacier Lifecycle Management
Not long ago, 2nd Watch published an article on Amazon Glacier. In it Caleb provides a great primer ...
Highly Available vs Highly Reliable (HA vs HR): What’s the Difference Between Them?
The other day I was working with my neighbor’s kid on his baseball fundamentals and I found myself...
Believe the Hype
A lot of companies have been dipping their toe in the proverbial Cloud waters for some time, looking...
Amazon Glacier: Your 1¢ Cloud-based Backup Solution
If you haven’t heard of Amazon Glacier, you need to check it out. As its name implies, you can thi...
How to Spin Up an AWS Virtual Machine
If you are a user like me, it may actually take you longer to make a cup of coffee than creating an ...
Flexible Payments
There are many companies selling goods or services on the AWS platform, and all have to solve an imp...