AWS

7 Skills that Hiring and Learning Managers should look for in a Cloud Consultant / Trainer

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(2)

A lot of our consulting and training clients request us to help them interview for cloud professionals, especially in AWS and Azure. There is a high demand for cloud professionals and sometimes the interviewing Hiring or Learning Manager herself does not have the experience in these technologies to test the skills of the interviewee.

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Data Analytics Ecosystem – AWS & Azure (Part 1)

Posted on April 11, 2017 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

In the past decade, technologies around data analytics and business intelligence have seen a tremendous growth in number and reach. The emergence of Cloud has undoubtedly been a catalyst to this growth. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have both been working towards offering services for Collecting, Uploading, Storing and processing for Data.

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Zabbix- A Simpler way of Monitoring

Posted on March 8, 2017 by CloudThat | Comments(19)

Today, applications have evolved from standalone to the client-server model and ultimately to the cloud-based elastic application. Application performance can directly affect a business, hurting the revenue as customer struggle to complete the process. It’s always been difficult to see what’s going on inside the system. And doing so has become an essential part. Having a good monitoring tool will help us to understand the system status and determine when they are behaving normally and when they are behaving abnormally.

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AWS CodeBuild: A Fully Managed Build Tool

Posted on February 16, 2017 by CloudThat | Comments(3)

Integrate Code, Build Artifact, Manage release. If you know the pain of these processes you might need to look at AWS CodeBuild. Maintaining a project developed by many team members concurrently which is composed of different functions, environment, and languages, AWS CodeBuild is here to help you.

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Ramifications of Microsoft Azure’s Strategic Shift towards Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) Partners

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(2)

Microsoft Azure is giving a tough fight to AWS in the public cloud market. Its no secret that AWS, with its 6 years of headstart in IaaS segment has more market share and more services. The latest announcement by Microsoft about Azure pay-as-you-go model not available in the MPSA licensing model gives us a hint on the strategic initiative by Microsoft Azure to capture more market share.

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Why do we opt for AWS Mumbai Region as an Indian cloud customer?

Posted on September 9, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Are you an Indian AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Customer? Do you want to adopt AWS Mumbai Region for your production?

Then we have an analysis for you which will help you to decide whether to go for AWS Mumbai Region or not. In this blog, we’ll look at aspects like “cost comparison, services availability, S3 object download speed test, latency check, compliance” between near and famous regions.

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Postfix Email Server integration with SES

Posted on July 7, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Have you ever  thought of setting up a web or application server with your own mail server? Have you ever tried to do so and stuck at some point? Well, when you host a website or your application it is likely to have your own mail server to handle incoming and outgoing mail to your domain. Before I get into my topic, I assume that you have got basic knowledge on AWS. For any kind of cloud training please visit www.cloudthat.com.

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CloudWatch Custom Metrics for Windows Server

Posted on June 2, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

It’s not rare that users having requirements of sending custom metrics to CloudWatch. These metrics can be application based or server based. There are different ways we can send these metrics to CloudWatch like writing a simple PowerShell script and scheduling it in Task Scheduler to run periodically. Alternate way to accomplish this, which I personally find very easy is by making simple changes in EC2ConfigService in your windows instance.

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Install WordPress using AWS Codepipeline

Posted on May 17, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(3)

In this blog we are going to show how we can install a Wordpress with AWS Codepipeline.

Before we begin the demo, let us brief you about the services which will be used.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing three services namely CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline as Developer Tools for the developers, which lets them to focus more on their application rather than deployment.

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