Sometimes I wonder which technology has more buzz: Kubernetes or AI? Honestly, being a DevOps engineer at a DevOps consulting company, I would say the answer is Kubernetes. But, just like any popular technology, there is some confusion because there are many options for deployment: You could use a native solution from your cloud provider, […]
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Is your business focused on delivering new features faster? To do so, are you implementing a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline? Would you like to accelerate the CI/CD process by moving code from development and user acceptance testing stages (DEV/UAT) to production stage (PROD) faster? If so, this blog is for you. In […]
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Does your business need to innovate faster to remain competitive? To accelerate the pace of innovation, have you implemented modern microservices-based applications running in containerized environments? Do you want to improve the availability of those applications and enhance engineering productivity? If so, this blog is for you. The dynamic challenge of microservices Microservices are implemented […]
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Are your DevOps teams focused on delivering innovation faster, continually spinning up new services that drive the proliferation of (sometimes) unneeded cloud instances? Do your AWS resources stay active after the project is done, with the meter still running? Do you lack visibility into who, what, and why resources are provisioned? Is all of this […]
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Are you deciding whether to stay with AWS Classic Load Balancer (CLB), previously known as Elastic Load Balancer, or migrate to one of the newer types of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) solutions: AWS Classic Load Balancer (CLB), previously known as Elastic Load Balancer Application Load Balancer (ALB) Network Load Balancer (NLB) If you’re currently using […]
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Are you grappling with deciding which container management service to use in the AWS cloud? Do you need to build microservices and complex architectures? Do you need to manage containers, or do you want to run containers without managing servers? If so, this blog is for you. At nClouds, we are on a mission to […]
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Would you like to run and orchestrate Docker containers automatically on AWS? Do your applications need to scale up or down continuously, based on different metrics? Do you have microservices applications running on Docker containers? Would you like to free up compute resources after jobs or applications finish processing? If so, this blog is for […]
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Do you have a multiple AWS account structure? Have you ever needed to run a task on ECS in one AWS account and have that task access resources in a different AWS account? If your answer to those questions is yes, then this blog post is for you. By sharing resources across accounts, you can […]
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nClouds announced it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS. The intent of the agreement is to help startups and growth-stage companies leverage AWS for strategic advantage. Under the SCA, nClouds and AWS will collaborate on AWS Well-Architected Reviews, nOps cloud management (SaaS), DevOps, containers, complex cloud migrations, and more. Read the announcement: […]
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Is your cloud infrastructure “well-architected” to achieve your desired business and technical outcomes, all while optimizing costs? Here are four key learnings on how a well-architected infrastructure on AWS can drive business results, including reduced costs and improved security & compliance risk. Read JT Giri’s blog post on the AWS Partner Network (APN) blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/how-aws-well-architected-reviews-can-drive-a-customer-first-culture/
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In the beginning, there was nothing but the default VPC Your single default Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) might be a good way to start prototyping, but depending on the workloads you are managing, it can easily get complex and may require a lot of manual work on your part. In this blog, we’ll […]
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Security is a big concern for web applications, especially when they’re used globally. When an asset is public, it’s prone to different kinds of attacks from different hackers. Unfortunately, sometimes developers or organizations don’t focus on securing their web apps from common exploits, or they invest so much time and resource in security that product […]
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How to apply guidelines from the AWS Well-Architected Framework to make it easier to prioritize security and advance your DevSecOps approach. nOps cloud management for AWS is an easy-to-use SaaS tool that enables DevOps teams to create customized security profiles to identify and support remediation of security violations … Read more: https://www.nops.io/blog/aws-well-architected-framework-security-devsecops
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You hear about companies like Amazon and Google deploying code thousands of times a day. While your organization may not require that level of frequency, you no doubt need the ability to innovate rapidly. And thanks to cloud and DevOps, these privileges aren’t available only to the unicorns. Here at nClouds, as part of every […]
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Celebrating a milestone nClouds achieved an important milestone this month. We were invited to join an exclusive club, the AWS Premier Consulting Partners, representing a level of recognition and earned trust with AWS, the most important company in cloud computing. It’s a group of about 75 partners worldwide (just 35 or so in North America) […]
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Container-based infrastructures are among the hottest cloud computing solutions today. What’s driving the excitement is the ability of containers to make application deployments more manageable, versionable, and faster. That’s why it’s so important to have the most optimal Docker images. Here at nClouds, DevOps is a major focus, and we build CI/CD pipelines for many […]
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nClouds, a provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services, has achieved AWS Migration Competency status. This is a big deal – Migration is a major AWS competency! This designation recognizes that we provide deep expertise to help customers move successfully to AWS, through all phases of complex migration projects, discovery, planning, migration, and […]
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Industry analyst Ovum published their On the Radar report, citing three main reasons organizations are looking for help with AWS configuration issues – and how nOps helps. They need to get a handle on costs and become more proactive in managing them. They need to automate change requests/authorizations to respond to the volume and velocity […]
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Our recent webinar, “Cloud Migration: Solving for Growth with Containers & DevOps on AWS,” illustrates how LendingHome, a fast-growing mortgage lender, optimized their infrastructure to support rapid growth and create competitive advantage. Read on for the top takeaways. This was our third webinar in the series, “5 C’s That Changed the Future,” co-sponsored by nClouds […]
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A few months ago I started developing what started out as a pretty straightforward API. At the time I thought it was going to be only two or three different API calls, so i didn’t give much thought to testing. But scope creep got the best of me and my innocent text file with test […]
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