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AWS Security Services Overview

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

AWS Migration Services Overview

Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Pros and Cons of going Cloudy

Wednesday, September 02, 2020

AWS Elastic Load Balancer Summary

Monday, August 24, 2020

AWS Resource Tagging

Friday, August 14, 2020

AWS has many Security Services designed to protect the entire stack deployment in the Cloud. This can be however, quite complicated to understand and use.AWS offers many services related to migrating on-premise, or Data Centre assets to the AWS platform. Each service has a particular use case. Many can be used in combination to provide a fairly rapid and secure migration to AWS (rehost, replatform).While on-premises infrastructure may be more affordable in some cases, seasoned cloud users are still attracted by the financial flexibility and efficiency of the cloud. They prefer to replace large, upfront capital expenses and ongoing hardware and software support charges with monthly or annual operational expenses. Listed below are some other notable cloud benefits.Elastic Load Balancer allows the incoming traffic to be distributed automatically across multiple healthy EC2 instances It assumes that the back-end is properly set up (not a replacement for a poorly built non-HA compliant back-end) ELB serves as a singleIt is best practices to tag all resources within AWS. Most firms do not tag, or do not properly tag their resources. This makes it difficult to allocate costs and resources used by area, department or even by environment. Along with using AWS Organisations (OUs, SCPs); tagging deployed resources from the sandbox, to development, testing, and production, is necessary.