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Understanding & Leveraging AWS Auto Scaling Groups

An AWS Auto Scaling group (ASG) is a fleet of EC2 instances that can scale up or down depending on application demand. The elasticity of Auto Scaling groups makes them highly-attractive options for enterprises who do not want to invest in purchasing expensive hardware only to respond to sudden or temporary spikes in application demand.

What does Serverless have in common with Nutella and Why it is Here to Stay

There is an interesting discussion going on around how Serverless is more of a spectrum rather than a binary choice. The move towards the Serverless-end of the cloud spectrum builds upon a decades-old trend, which is why Serverless is here to stay.

Encrypt Azure Service Bus Data at REST using User Keys

Azure Service Bus messages may contain sensitive business information. This sensitive information should be accessible only to the intended receivers of the message. This information must be protected from the attackers when the messages are in transit and at rest. This blog will brief you how Azure handles the default encryption of data at rest and how we can use our own keys to encrypt the Service Bus data at transit.

Accelerate Containerization of your Legacy Apps through CloudHedge

Containerizing your age-old legacy applications is the way forward! Yes, it’s true that the benefits attached to containerization are quite rewarding for enterprise apps in the long run. It is also true that not all applications should be containerized. Assuming your application is ready for containerization, you may want to analyze the approach taken to containerize apps, is it a manual or an automated process? Manual process is time-consuming and prone to errors.

Efficacy of CloudHedge Discover for your Application Environment

Applications deployed years ago may have undergone changes over the years, and there are strong possibilities of the changes not being documented or recorded. All the undocumented changes can bite back as a security breach or get NCs (non-compliance) during an audit exercise. Also, if there is a drive to modernize applications, the true picture of the application may not be documented after interviewing the right people. These applications could be on-premise or on the cloud.

Webinar: Serverless At Scale: the Present and Future of Modern Cloud Architectures

In this webinar on 16 April 2020 we covered the following topics:

  • The main challenges of scaling modern cloud applications
  • Implementing well-architected best practices
  • Battle-tested architectural patterns
  • How to improve resilience and scalability

6 Common Mistakes in AWS EC2 and Azure Cloud VM Optimization

No matter what’s driving your move to an AWS or Azure cloud, two things are true. One, you don’t want to under-provision, which could create performance and availability issues. And two, you don’t want to overpay, because no one ever wants to do that. One of the key decisions you must make is which Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure virtual machine instance configuration you need. It’s a scoping exercise, but several factors make this easier said than done.