As promised through Twitter, here are my notes from my second Thursday morning session from last week’s AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. This session, on AWS Cost Optimization led by Matt Johnson, was packed! Honestly, I was a little surprised by that initially though I’m not sure why….I mean, I have my AWS … Continue reading 2018 AWS Public Sector Notes – Cost Optimization on AWS
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2018 AWS Public Summit Notes – Culture Shock: How a Legacy, Siloed Organization Can Move to the Cloud
In this session, which was filled to overflowing, Sherry Stevens of NAIC and Jeffrey Olson of The College Board discussed their organizations journey to the AWS cloud. I found it interesting to hear their thoughts and appreciated that both organizations were in different stages of their cloud journey. NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) is … Continue reading 2018 AWS Public Summit Notes – Culture Shock: How a Legacy, Siloed Organization Can Move to the Cloud
2018 AWS Public Sector Summit – Day 1 Summary
Hello all! I'm writing to you from Washington D.C. I'm here attending the AWS Public Sector Summit and as you might imagine, a day full of sessions leaves one feeling as if they have been "drinking from a fire hose". Nonetheless, it's been great and you could also say its far from over as the … Continue reading 2018 AWS Public Sector Summit – Day 1 Summary
Baselining Performance using Liquidware Stratusphere UX
This afternoon I was on an interesting and informative webinar hosted by Liquidware in which they discussed using SpotCheck Inspection of an environment as a means to provide visibility into the user experience. NOTE: Let me make this clear, in this post I'm focus on VDI in regards to a SpotCheck inspection, but Stratusphere's scope is … Continue reading Baselining Performance using Liquidware Stratusphere UX
Building AWS CloudFormation templates using CloudFormer
I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm somewhat of a newbie when it comes build AWS CloudFormation templates, but that hasn't stopped me from trying to learn how to harness the power they provide. Thus, last week I spent some time trying to build a CloudFormation template to deploy a Cisco ASAv. At this point, … Continue reading Building AWS CloudFormation templates using CloudFormer
Recovering from a failed AWS Tape Gateway
If you deploy an AWS tape gateway that encounters an unrecoverable failure, you can "potentially" recover any virtual tape data that has already been uploaded to AWS to another tape gateway. I say "potentially" because I have experienced the corruption of (1) virtual tape; this could happen if your tape gateway experiences its fatal failure … Continue reading Recovering from a failed AWS Tape Gateway
DR with Cloud Protection Manager
CPM provides a DR option that can be used to easily send backup data from one region to another should you need to restore your EC2 instances in another AWS region. This post details the process of sending US-East (N. Virginia) backup data to US-West (Oregon). Configure CPM Disaster Recovery Options Within CPM, click Policies. … Continue reading DR with Cloud Protection Manager
Improving AWS / Cisco ASA VPN Instability
If you are experiencing any instability in regards to a VPN connection between your corporate datacenter and AWS, consider the following (received from AWS Support) if you are using Cisco ASAs to establish the VPN connection to AWS. -> From looking at the logs, following are the suggested changes - 1. I am seeing Phase … Continue reading Improving AWS / Cisco ASA VPN Instability
Part 4 – AWS Backup with CPM – Restoring Files
At a high-level, posts 1-3 covered the process to deploy, initialize, and configure CPM to backup EC2 instances. To close out the series, I'll cover the process to restore files using CPM's backup monitor. Though I'll close the basic backup/restore series out with this post, there is still much more than can and will be … Continue reading Part 4 – AWS Backup with CPM – Restoring Files
Part 3 – AWS Backup with CPM – Creating a Backup Schedule and Policy
In this post, we're still looking at backing up AWS EC2 instances using N2WS Cloud Protection Manager (CPM). Posts #1 and 2 covered deploying and initializing the appliance. Here we dig into the CPM interface to configure backups for EC2 instances. Creating a Backup Schedule and Policy A backup schedule sets the start time and … Continue reading Part 3 – AWS Backup with CPM – Creating a Backup Schedule and Policy