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Top 10 AWS Services Explained With Use Cases

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud service providers in the industry, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. A large spectrum of clients across verticals uses AWS to lower costs, become more agile and innovate faster. A recent survey estimates that AWS is the largest cloud service provider and accounts for 32% of the worldwide cloud services market.

Reverse Connect for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD)

There’s something common between AVD and eG Enterprise. Can you take a wild guess? Listening on open TCP ports is an extremely bad practice for cloud architectures, as it exposes products and services to accepting incoming messages from malicious parties. This is something eG Innovations avoids in our own products (see details). This is also a best practice adopted by Microsoft for Azure Virtual Desktops (AVD).

AWS Database Types - Aurora vs DynamoDB vs RDS - How do they compare?

In this blog, we describe the different types of AWS’ managed databases and their various features and merits. By the end of the blog, you should have better information to choose the right AWS database that would match your application’s needs.

How to choose between AWS RDS and EC2 Hosted Database?

You’ve decided to migrate your applications from on-premises to AWS and are considering what cloud services are available that suit your needs the best. When you are migrating an application that uses a relational database backend (RDBMS) such as Oracle, MySQL or SQL Server to the cloud, the question of RDS vs EC2 will inevitably surface.

Kubernetes Monitoring Resources

Heaven knows we all could use some luck these days, and observability may be just the thing we need. But observability isn’t luck, and it isn’t really new either. A few people even know that observability is an aspect of control theory, which dates back to the 1800s! In this blog post, I’ll cover some of the history of observability vs.

AWS Migration Strategy - Detailed Guide to the 6 R's

This article walks you through: As of 2020, 81% of organizations had at least one application running on the cloud. It is a fact that, be it small, medium, or large, all businesses are moving towards the cloud. Companies are looking to adopt cloud computing services for elasticity, agility, and scalability. With enterprise-class technology accessed from the cloud, businesses can act fast, embrace pay-as-you-go services and disrupt the market today while staying lean and agile. ​

The What and The Why of Cloud Native Applications - An Introductory Guide

Companies across industries are under tremendous pressure to develop and deploy IT applications and services faster and with far greater efficiency. Traditional enterprise application development falls short since it is not efficient and speedy. IT and business leaders are keen to take advantage of cloud computing as it offers businesses cost savings, scalability at the touch of a button, and flexibility to respond quickly to change.

GSLB on NetScaler

This blog post is the first in a series highlighting actual questions asked to eG Enterprise during customer support calls and our answers to those. At first, it appeared that this customer had a simple active/passive web server set-up to provide failover resilience. However, it transpired that they were using Citrix ADC’s (was NetScaler) GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing) features.