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Ref: Tutorial: Delegate Access Across AWS Accounts Using IAM Roles - AWS Identity and Access Management We have SolarWinds Orion instances installed in one AWS account and use it to monitor resources that are spread out among other AWS accounts. The best practice here would be to use IAM role delegation to provide the…
Submitted for your approval; a story of cloud horrors. One of performance issues impacting production. Where monthly cloud billing began spiraling out of control. The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. During my consulting career, I’ve encountered companies at many different…
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated - The On Premises Data Center Mark Twain As I mentioned in my previous post, the hype cycle has the on-premises data center dead to rights. Public cloud is the future and there’s no turning back. When you step back and investigate the private cloud space, you’d be surprised.…
Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. The network admin blames the infrastructure. The cycle of blame continues until finally someone shouts, “Why don’t we just put it in the cloud?” Certainly,…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both -Robert Frost At this point in our “Battle of the Clouds” journey, we’ve seen what the landscape of the various clouds looks like, cut through some of the fog around cloud, and glimpsed what failing to plan can do to your cloud migration. So, where does…
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing departments, public cloud is the greatest thing to happen to the data center since virtualization. But, is it true? Could public cloud be the savior of the…
Did you come here hoping to read a summary of the past 5+ years of my research on self-driving, autonomous vehicles, Tesla, and TNC businesses? Well, you’re in luck… that’s my next post. This post helps make that post far more comprehensible. So here we lay the foundation, with fun, humor, and excitement. (Mild disclaimer…
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