If you are looking after cloud infrastructure for multiple clients, the first thing you want to look at before starting to troubleshoot a reported issue is the current state of the client’s network infrastructure. Let’s face it, if you are responsible for more than a couple of networks, remembering exactly…

So imagine your worst nightmare. The cloud based application you have just inherited management and support for has just crashed. The support lines are lit up like a Christmas tree, the support ticket system is having a meltdown and everyone is looking at you for a solution. The problem is…

Could your team show you with any confidence what systems and resources you have running in the cloud. Could they do that today, or right now. Or would they need a few days or longer to trawl through consoles and configuration documents or possibly hunt down the original design documents…

Whether you are developing cloud based applications or accessing lots of different corporate applications and web properties daily, there is a clear advantage to streamlining your security profile using SSO What is SSO authentication. Single Sign-on authentication is designed to improve your online security posture by centralizing identity management and multi factor authentication. The…

How to find resources in AWS When you are developing applications or creating infrastructure in AWS things can escalate quickly, which is kind of the point of choosing the cloud in the first place. …

At the heart of AWS managed services is the provision of services that facilitate AWS cloud adoption, by assisting customers to move from on-premises hardware and software to cloud based infrastructure. AWS managed services provide ongoing management and maintenance of your cloud infrastructure, so that you are free to concentrate…

So you just landed a new cloud customer and it’s your job to work out how their existing cloud network infrastructure has been cobbled together over the years. Maybe they are primarily an AWS shop, or prefer Azure or are cool kids and have gone all in on Google Cloud…

Most developers and engineers working with cloud infrastructure will agree that a well laid out network topology diagram is an essential tool when either communicating how the network is built, or for use when tracking down the reason for an application outage or performance dip. The major problem with network…

Amazon Lightsail is a cloud service from AWS that allows you to deploy pre configured Windows and Linux server stacks that you can manage from an intuitive management console. The bundles of compute resources and software delivered by Lightsail are delivered as a single unit on your AWS billing making…