Here at nClouds, our clients often ask for our help to connect their on-premises infrastructure with the AWS infrastructure when they want to: Sync their on-premises data center with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), so that they can: Add more compute capacity to their network. Launch additional web servers. Move their corporate applications to […]
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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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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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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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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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This blog kicks off a series in which we’ll address topics aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. If you were at AWS re:Invent, you probably heard AWS CTO Werner Vogels talk about well-architected cloud architecture. The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach and guidance to evaluate architectures and implement scalable designs, with a focus […]
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Since its inception in 2009, Chef has quickly become the go-to configuration management tool for developers and companies. While the tool is highly successful at streamlining the tasks of configuring and maintaining a company’s servers, handling sensitive data within Chef continues to be a bit of a challenge. For companies that are dealing with extremely […]
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Overview As AWS managed services providers, we know that security is sometimes characterized as the balance of security and convenience. More times than not, for startups, security best practices suffer. We have simplified a solution to one of the most common infrastructure requirements: remote access. Using open source tools and a great MFA token we […]
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In this blog post we show how to attach policy to an IAM user to manage the AWS resources usage and permissions, you will have to create an IAM user first if don’t know how to do that then read our previous post To attach policy to IAM user follow these steps: 1) Sign in […]
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In this blog post we show how to create an IAM user in your AWS management console and how to generate the AWS key for that user. To create an IAM user follow these steps: 1) Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/ or click on the Identity […]
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When we are building infrastructure for our clients, we make sure that user has least amount of privileges. This walk though guide you through giving user enough permissions to manage their MFA and password without giving them admin rights. 1. Navigate to IAM and click on create policy and select Create Your Own Policy 2. […]
View PostIn last week, I was playing with cross-account IAM roles to achieve key-less job executions in our amazon web services environment. As a security prospective, IAM role is better option over aws keys as there is no need of aws keys ,awscli or s3cmd to access aws services. With proper use of IAM roles in […]
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