Archives for Cloud Computing - Page 26
Going from VMWare to EC2 or EC2 to VMWare
Going from VMWare to EC2 is possible - but not seamless. For if your AWS EC2 instance has additional components (S3 buckets, ELBs in front etc.), those need to…
Office 365 and Azure
O365 - Built In SaaS offerings Productivity and Social Networking Solutions – Teams , Yammer, Delve, Sway Infrastructure Solutions - Enterprise Mobile Security - EMS and InTune Security Solutions -…
Troubleshooting AWS Network performance
AWS Symptom : Entire VPC is slow? Is it just (access to) a single EC2 instance that is slow? Other EC2 instances are fast? Have you tried accessing it from…
AWS–DDoS prevention
Just how much can a DDoS attack cost you? True story of combating a DDoS attack
Azure websites (PaaS) versus IIS on VMs (IaaS)
IaaS versus PaaS will be a choice you will often be faced with. In general, you will be better off starting with PaaS (quicker provisioning and near-zero maintenance). For some…
Some AWS Decisions that need to be made UPFRONT– Use CloudFront
CloudFront – Content distribution Network (CDN) If security - and future proofing your AWS assets - is a concern, then start incorporating CloudFront as part of all your AWS solutions.…
Load balancers in AWS
ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) is somewhat of a misnomer. While it does provide a way to distribute load across a server farm, it can be used for far more than…
Private IP Addresses–available publicly–AWS NATting
Within the VPC (logical partition of the AWS public cloud), you can define your desired IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and so forth. You can also connect…
Security Groups, Firewalls, ELBs and additional layers of security
Also read AWS NACLs versus Security Groups and Service Accounts as an intelligent firewall option on GCP Private Clouds, Virtual Private Clouds and such were introduced as a security measure…
Enterprise Software Licensing– mapping to cloud instances
Your company spent a gazillion dollars purchasing the next Enterprise Software (which, by the way, is a dying class of software – being obsoleted by Software as a Service). The…