AWS Premier Tier Services Partner deepens application modernization credentials October 27, 2022 – SAN FRANCISCO – nClouds, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and a leading provider of managed cloud services, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery designation for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes […]
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The short answer is that synthesizing those two worlds offers comprehensive system logging, more precise system observability, better code pipelines, and enhanced security. In other words, AWS users run Windows and Linux containers side by side in the same Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) environment to meld the attributes of both systems, providing a consistent […]
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Site reliability engineering (SRE) teams often use chaos engineering to proactively prove and improve resilience during fault conditions. At nClouds, we use chaos engineering to experiment with our infrastructure. We check for weak points in our systems and applications by intentionally injecting failure events within controlled environments. In this way, we evaluate how our systems […]
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Gartner states that hybrid infrastructures are becoming the dominant strategy for application modernization. And that by 2025, 85% of infrastructure strategies will integrate on-premises, colocation, cloud, and edge delivery options. The hybrid strategy embodies two areas, specific business needs and workload placement. To accomplish this, some workloads will be placed on-premises to meet security or […]
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Technological advances and astronomical growth in user access to the cloud demand the most innovative, reliable, scalable, available, and cost-optimized compute architectures and infrastructures that DevOps teams can build. Containerization offers a superior architecture to meet these specifications for many use cases. The most popular containerization platform is Kubernetes. Kubernetes automates the deployment, scaling, and […]
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According to respondents to CNCF’s Annual Survey 2021, 96% of organizations are either using or evaluating Kubernetes – a record high since their surveys began in 2016. The survey also indicated that Amazon EKS is the container orchestrator of choice on AWS, used by 50.6% of respondents (while only 30.8% of respondents are DIY Kubernetes […]
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In 2012, SoundCloud engineers realized they had a problem. Their existing monitoring solutions were insufficient for their needs. Development teams need real-time, actionable monitoring data to improve Kubernetes deployment uptime, enhance system performance, and boost resource optimization. In other words, they needed a solution to handle the complexity and distributed nature of their cloud applications, […]
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What are security groups for pods on Amazon EKS? Security groups are one of the keystone building blocks in any AWS cloud deployment. Security groups are like instance-level network firewalls. Since security groups are associated with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, they offer protection at the ports and protocol access levels. AWS realized […]
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When AWS Fargate was launched, it was the dawn of a new era for containers in the AWS ecosystem — for the first time, cloud engineers could deploy and manage containers without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. AWS Fargate was launched in 2017 for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) instances. Then, during re:Invent […]
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Learn how to use Argo CD, a GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. At nClouds, we care about GitOps because we strive to use the latest and greatest technologies where they help our clients deliver innovation faster. It’s one of our core values at nClouds: Innovation culture that delivers client value. And, we’re using Argo […]
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