Tag: EC2

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If you’re new to Puppet Tasks™, here’s a quick primer. Puppet Tasks complements Puppet’s model-driven approach to automation by adding the ability to easily execute ad hoc tasks in an declarative way — doing exactly what you want, when you want it. The goal is to make it simple for you to do things like troubleshoot systems and devices, deploy point-in-time changes, and execute commands in an ordered fashion as part of an application deployment workflow.Puppet Tasks is available two ways: Bolt, an agentless open source task runner that can can run ad ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tom Tasker. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMicrosoft SQL (MSSQL) is an enterprise-level database application used by some of the world’s largest companies. With business-critical data housed in MSSQL databases, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential features of any MSSQL deployment that businesses have to architect for. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), server resources for large MSSQL deployments can be taken out of the data center and run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The ability to boot these instances in minutes provides ease ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Improvements in this update to the HashiCorp Consul Quick Start include the following components: A Classic Load Balancer, with Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate support. Modernized bootstrapping of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances that run Consul. Consul updated to the latest release: 1.7.0-beta2. Consul Template version 0.24.0. Dedicated Consul user to run the Consul client and server system service. The HashiCorp Consul Quick Start now also enables the Consul Autopilot and Consul Connect features. To try out the updated Quick Start, use the following resources: For additional AWS Quick Start reference deployments, see our ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers team up with specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: As of 29 May 2019, we've sunsetted Puppet Discovery. Check out Puppet Remediate.Last May, we released the open source project, Lumogon™, that inspects running containers, and a preview of Puppet Cloud Discovery, a tool to discover cloud infrastructure. We talked to numerous users about their challenges and learned a lot in the process. They consistently told us that they are being asked to manage a large number of heterogeneous resources such as physical servers, VMs, containers, and network devices from a widening array of endpoints and interfaces. And, they wanted a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Michael Wasielewski. Customers with stringent regulatory or risk-averse considerations may look to Zero Trust architectures to refactor legacy applications or deploy new ones. This blog will help you evaluate your application architecture against Zero Trust principles and use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable architectures.What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust security is a model where application components or microservices are considered discrete from each other and no component or microservice trusts any other. This manifests as a security posture designed to consider input from any source as potentially malicious ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. To get started, tag your EBS volumes and start creating lifecycle policies via Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. You can create the policies in the AWS Management Console, from the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) or via the Data Lifecycle Manager APIs. With this expansion, DLM is now available in 18 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Matt Yellen, Principal Engineer at CloudZeroAnalyzing large datasets can be challenging, especially if you aren’t thinking about certain characteristics of the data and what you’re ultimately looking to achieve. There are a number of factors organizations need to consider in order to build systems that are flexible, affordable, and fast, while at the same time meeting the needs of their end users. For example, you need to understand where your data is coming from, how often it changes, and how the data will be queried. In some cases, a fixed ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Charlie Klein, Product Marketing Manager at Logz.ioOften times, metrics and logs that are clearly indicative of oncoming production crises are lost in a sea of telemetry data generated by modern, distributed Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. This is especially true in environments powered by technologies like Kubernetes. Each layer in a microservices architecture—such as databases, cloud infrastructures, backend services, and client-side applications—produces different kinds of telemetry data that must be monitored for performance and reliability. The result is a barrage of logs and metrics that increase in scale and variety ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; At Puppet, we have always offered technology to bring you deep situational awareness of your infrastructure. With our latest innovation, Puppet Cloud Discovery™, we are, for the first time, bringing situational awareness to cloud environments that aren’t managed by Puppet. Puppet Cloud Discovery allows you to scan your Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances and gather information about them. This helps you understand exactly what you have in EC2 (for resources not managed by Puppet) so you can take steps toward managing everything you're running there.Let's dive for a moment into just what ... Read More