In a recent blog post, Brandon Mahoney asked How Big Can CMS Infrastructure Get? with the short answer being as much as you want to spend. It is true today as it always has been, that you can build any infrastructure to fulfill any set of requirements and requirements such as disaster recovery and performance…
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Selecting the right AWS region
Selecting the right Amazon Web Services (or AWS) region is an important step when deploying you workloads to AWS. In this blog post, I hope to briefly outline what a region is and share five factors which you should look at when selecting a region. What is a region? A Region is a geographically separated…
New AWS features – September 2016
Occasionally I will share some new features from AWS that sparked my interest and so here in are some new features that I like: Upload AWS Cost & Usage Reports to Redshift and QuickSight (link) – increased flexibility and efficiency in generating reports on billing. You could also load in other datasets to Redshift to…
AWS Elastic File System
Yesterday in a knowledge session between Solution Architects, the topic of AWS Elastic File System was raised and after a short discussion it was decided to take a closer look and set something up. To quote Top Gear, how hard could it be? What is EFS? AWS Elastic File System, or EFS, is Amazon Web…