I recently ran into a situation where I was unable to connect to an Amazon WorkSpace. Though everything looked great on the AWS side in that no problems were displayed within the WorkSpaces console, the Get-WKSWorkspace PowerShell command, and the CloudWatch WorkSpace dashboard, my connection would launch, present me with a black screen, and then … Continue reading Troubleshooting Amazon WorkSpace Connectivity from an End-User Device
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Deploying AWS Infrastructure…with Terraform…using Azure DevOps?
Welcome to my first mash-up of cloud providers and tools post! I guess this can be considered some new age "multi-cloud" stuff, but my first venture into the world of Azure DevOps opened my eyes to how powerful and surprisingly accessible this tool can be. Let me frame that comment with some background. More Dev … Continue reading Deploying AWS Infrastructure…with Terraform…using Azure DevOps?
AWS Security Specialty Exam Prep, a Book Review: “AWS Certified Security – Specialty” by Zeal Vora
Recently, I have been studying for and fortunately passed the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam. Unlike the AWS Associate and Professional certifications for which there seems to be no shortage of study material, I found that study material for the AWS Security Specialty, especially a book, is less common. You may be asking and I'll … Continue reading AWS Security Specialty Exam Prep, a Book Review: “AWS Certified Security – Specialty” by Zeal Vora
AWS Control Tower Grows Up
A little while back I wrote a blog series on AWS Multi-Account architectures and ways to deploy them. My post on Control Tower came during the relative infancy of the service. Since then, Control Tower has benefited from a number of updates, including some very recent ones that mark a fairly large leap in service … Continue reading AWS Control Tower Grows Up
Deploying Veeam Backup for AWS – Free Edition
Introduction During AWS re:Invent 2019, Veeam released "Backup for AWS", a backup and recovery solution designed, at this time, to protect AWS EC2 instances. In this upcoming (and now here) series of posts, I'll detail how to deploy and use Veeam Backup for AWS to backup and restore data from your AWS EC2 instances. This … Continue reading Deploying Veeam Backup for AWS – Free Edition
My AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification Experience
I recently passed the AWS SA Pro Exam, and can confirm that it is indeed as tough as everyone makes it out to be! That does not mean that it is scary or too daunting to even consider. If I was able to pass it, then I am confident anyone reading this is also more … Continue reading My AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification Experience
Veeam Backup for AWS – File-Level Recovery (FLR) Task Stops with Failures
I had a curious issue recently while testing Veeam Backup for AWS. I had no issues deploying it, initializing it, configuring backups, nor restoring instances or volumes. I did however, run into an issue when performing a file-level restore (FLR). About 40 seconds after starting the FLR, I received the error (shown below) stating that … Continue reading Veeam Backup for AWS – File-Level Recovery (FLR) Task Stops with Failures
Veeam Vanguard Summit through a cloud lens
Earlier this fall I had the honor of attending my first Veeam Vanguard Summit. For those who aren't aware, the Veeam Vanguard is an influencer program, and one of the annual benefits includes a summit that brings together the Vanguards to highlight the inner workings going on at Veeam. I've been very lucky to have … Continue reading Veeam Vanguard Summit through a cloud lens
An Introduction to AWS Security Hub
Just a link to a post I wrote about AWS Security Hub on the World Wide Technology digital platform...go check it out! An Introduction to AWS Security Hub
AWS Multi-Account Architecture Part 3 – AWS Control Tower
Part 2 of this series introduced AWS Landing Zone and how that solution gives customers a well architected multi-account structure within AWS. Like many other architectures available in the cloud, AWS Landing Zone makes use of a multitude of AWS services and deploys them via infrastructure as code and other DevOps tools to provide an … Continue reading AWS Multi-Account Architecture Part 3 – AWS Control Tower