Tag: identity

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; A single sign-on service — or SSO for short — is a service that lets you log in to different platforms using only one set of credentials. If you’re a business owner, this means fewer lost passwords for your employees. In this article, we’ve rounded up the best SSO services for cloud storage so that your employees will never get locked out of your company’s cloud accounts. Single sign-on solutions allow users easy access to applications. They’re especially useful for cloud file storage or enterprise file and sync services (or EFSS) where your employees might ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: ajit jaokar. I always seek good resources for my teaching at #universityofoxford and this is a great free book on Cloud native – a topic that is very much in the focus The book needs a free registration and is provided as a full ebook by d2iq. D2iq was formerly mesosphere – the commercial arm of mesos – but now is focussed towards Kubernetes and cloud native services. See this techcrunch link for some background. Previously, some chapters were free. Now the whole book seems to be a free download Containers ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. This post is courtesy of Christian Mueller, Principal Solutions Architect.Developers increasingly adopt event-driven architectures to decouple their distributed applications. Often, these events must be propagated in a strictly ordered manner to all subscribed applications. Using Amazon SNS FIFO topics and Amazon SQS FIFO queues, you can address use cases that require end-to-end message ordering, deduplication, filtering, and encryption. In this blog post, I introduce a sample event-driven architecture. I walk through an implementation based on Amazon SNS FIFO topics and Amazon SQS FIFO queues. In event-driven architectures, data consistency is a common business ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Shortly before COVID-19 disrupted the United States, Alvina Antar was approached by an executive recruiter on behalf of Okta. Would Antar, six years into her role as CIO of Zuora, be interested in leading IT at the popular provider of digital identity software? Antar was intrigued.But Antar’s recruitment paused as the pandemic forced offices to close in mid-March. Maybe it wasn’t the right time to move, Antar recalls thinking. She had a good gig and the outbreak had generated considerable uncertainty. But the recruiter restarted the search process a few weeks later and Antar participated in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Prasad Rao. By Prasad Rao, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Nikolay Bunev, Sr. Cloud Consultant at HeleCloudRunning workloads on the cloud can help customers reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while increasing agility and scalability. When transforming their operations for the cloud, it’s imperative organizations understand cloud security controls and enable them to correctly protect and secure their data. Within the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are responsible for securing their workloads within the application layer. To help with this, AWS provides a variety of tools and features that ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With today’s Amplify CLI release, you gain the ability to import existing Amazon Cognito resources into your Amplify project. Just run the “amplify import auth” command and Amplify CLI will automatically configure all your Amplify-provisioned resources (GraphQL APIs, S3 buckets and more) to be authenticated with your designated existing Cognito User Pool or Identity Pool.   ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Simmi Patel; “Branding doesn’t matter when you have a great product.”  This is a common belief among many brilliant companies when they’re starting up. And with so many articles on marketing tricks, colors that work and don’t work, design trends, and a/b tests, branding seems like an unnecessary thing to invest in. As a result, the budget, attention, and genius goes towards creating a revolutionary product, leaving branding to be merely an afterthought—and that’s if it’s lucky enough to be thought of at all.  But the truth is: a brand is a true reflection ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; How to understand errorsWhen Puppet shows up red, don't panic! You need to figure out what's causing the error, so you can understand whether it's something fixable, or an actual bug.Generally, the first error in a Puppet run is the one you need to concern yourself with. Once the first thing fails, others that run after it or require it to succeed will also fail and could produce a LOT of red text! So scroll to the first red error on your Puppet run. If you’re using the Report Viewer in Puppet Enterprise ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With PrivateLink, you can provision and use VPC endpoints to access the Lambda API from your VPC. VPC endpoints deliver reliable connectivity to Lambda without requiring Internet Gateway, Network Address Translation (NAT) devices, or firewall proxies. You can attach AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to your VPC endpoint to control who can use the VPC endpoint and which functions can be accessed from that VPC endpoint. Lambda supports PrivateLink in the following regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. AWS customers from startups to enterprises have been successfully running Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EC2 instances since 2015, well before Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), was launched in 2018. As a fully managed Kubernetes service, Amazon EKS customers can run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain their own Kubernetes control plane. Since its launch, many existing and new customers are building and running their Kubernetes clusters on Amazon EKS.At re:Invent 2019, AWS announced AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS, which is serverless compute for containers. Then, in January 2020, AWS announced a ... Read More