What is AWS CloudFormation at a high level and what it is meant to be used for?
Category Archives: Cloud Strategies
AWS EC2 metadata
The pseudo address at 169.254.169.254 provide meta data information for a given EC2 instance at runtime. The utilization helps to increase security and to get code simplified
Cloud native services vs self-maintained deployments
Cloud native services can help to control costs. With the shared responsibility model burden to operate and maintain are taken towards the Cloud provider.
Processing of High Speed Logs
A design to process ELB logs hosted in S3 buckets in a loosely composed setup.
HSL – High Speed Logging
High Speed Logging (HSL) to be used to support SLAs with customers and to stabilize revenue.
AWS EC2 Maintenance Announcements
Large organizations just benefit from an ability to be able to get tasks and actions around the AWS Maintenance Announcements automated.
Resource Tags
Unified tag strategies help to keep costs controlled, improve ability to automate OS patching and provide a 360° view on a deployment
AWS EC2 Automated Docker Swarm deployment
CloudFormation based Docker Swarm deployment
Strategies to Migrate into the Cloud
Formulating a strategy Many companies consider to migrate either applications or full data center infrastructures into the Cloud. There are a number of strategies which describe on how to migrate a given on-premises infrastructure into the Cloud. While those strategies may help to identify a best path for an upcoming migration it only may help …