Configuring VPN between the VPCs across regions/accounts

Posted on April 1, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

As AWS is the top player in cloud market, we see most of the organizations migrating their architectures to AWS. If you are familiar with AWS, you must be knowing that most of the services are region level like EC2, VPC, etc. Let’s say you have a complex architecture with instances running in different regions. In case you want your infrastructure spread across multiple regions, securely communicate with each other through an encrypted channel, a secure VPN tunnel would be the need of the hour.

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Sample Questions for AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification – Part 1

Posted on April 1, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(5)

AWS has been the leader in Cloud Computing for 10 years and getting certified as an Amazon Developer is something that every developer working on building scalable applications on AWS would intent to go for. With the same mindset, I had recently appeared and cleared the developer certification. You can read more about the AWS Developer Associate Certification here.

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Track your resource configuration changes with AWS Config

Posted on March 23, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

AWS Config provides the complete visibility over the deployment and tracking of resources. It checks the inventory changes and identifies the deleted resources. It analyses the compliance of the desired rule against the deployed configuration and respond to security incidents without distorting end user. It helps in troubleshooting the misconfigured resources.

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5 Reasons why Multi-Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) is the Only Real DR Strategy

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(4)

Disaster Recovery (DR) is an important aspect of any cloud deployment. In the words of Amazon’s CTO Vernal Vogel’s, “Everything fails, all the time”. It is possible that an entire data center or region of the cloud provider goes down. This has already happened to most cloud providers like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure and will surely happen again in future.

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What is Amazon Mobile Hub?

Posted on February 5, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Amazon Mobile Hub is a mobile service, which allows to build, test and monitor usage of mobile apps rapidly and easily. It allows users to integrate various AWS services to your mobile application in matter of some clicks. Once the app is ready, Mobile Hub allows you to test the app on real devices as well as make use of analytics to track usage of the app.

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Database Migration Service

Posted on January 12, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(12)

AWS Database Migration service allows AWS customers to easily migrate Production databases to AWS with minimal downtime. It is currently available for preview in US East (N. Virginia) region.Setting up Database Migration toll is easy and quick it takes about 10-15 minutes to setup.

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Understanding Amazon Cognito Authentication

Posted on January 8, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

Amazon Cognito is a service which provides user-data synchronization and unique identifiers for your end users that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identifiers for users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Digits, Google or any OpenID Connect are compatible provider) or using your own user identity system.

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Data Warehouse as a Service powered by Azure

Posted on December 29, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

Before starting any business, you might think how to equip your data, how to maintain and manipulate your data (as it will be there in abundance). You might go and ask some IT expert what to do, how to do and a bunch of other questions. The IT guy may suggest you to build your own Data Warehouse, to which you will ask if it is cost effective or not, what’s the upfront cost, what will be the maintenance charges, etc.

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Introducing Run Command in EC2

Posted on December 9, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(5)

In order to perform updates, patches, restart a particular process or running a particular powershell script in a Windows based EC2 instance we need to login to the machine and then make the required changes. Sometimes in a huge production environment this tends to be a cumbersome job for managing large fleet of machines.

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