by truthbrother | Oct 27, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud services division, today announced the general availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DL1 instances. While new instance types generally aren’t particularly novel, DL1 (specifically DL1.24xlarge) is the first...
by truthbrother | Aug 26, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
Snapshots are an integral part of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). Snapshots allow you to create a block-level, point-in-time copy of your volumes for backup, or disaster-recovery purposes. Snapshots are incremental, only data modified since the last snapshots are...
by truthbrother | Aug 13, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the...
by truthbrother | Aug 13, 2021 | Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services
Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his team of five engineers had built a product called CloudBerryExplorer for Amazon S3. I mentioned his product in my CloudFront Management Tool Roundup and in several...
by truthbrother | Jul 29, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Ansible
A practical way to provision instances on Amazon Web Service EC2 with Ansible. Welcome, this article shows a simple approach to use Ansible for provisioning an AWS EC2 instance. Ansible is a configuration management tool widely used to provision IT environments,...
