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93 Best AWS re:Invent Sessions from 2021

AWS publishes many of the best sessions on YouTube so we can learn at our leisure. In 2021 AWS released, by our count, 479 recorded sessions from re:Invent, or put another way, about 400 cumulative hours of video. That’s almost 17 days of continuous viewing (we may or may not have watched a few of these on 1.5x speed).

re:Invent 2021 Recap – Global Partner Summit Keynote

At re:Invent 2021, the Global Partner Summit Keynote was all about AWS Partners and the key role they play in enabling companies across the globe transform their businesses by leveraging the cloud. In 2021, AWS and AWS partners worked on hundreds of thousands of opportunities, doubling the figures year over year.  Doug Yeum, Head of …

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re:Invent 2021 Recap – Werner Vogels Keynote

AWS’ CTO Werner Vogels has been a highly anticipated keynote fixture throughout re:Invent’s history. He appeared on stage this year in a Hawaiin shirt following a surreal road trip down AWS memory lane, but the premise didn’t last long, quickly revealing his t-shirt of the year as “The Stranglers”. With 10 years of re:Invent, there …

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re:Invent 2021 Recap – Peter DeSantis Keynote

A keynote from Peter DeSantis always promises an expert guided tour of some of the inner technical workings of the AWS platform. In the past this has included in-depth explorations of the AWS Nitro System, the AWS Graviton2 processors, and AWS’ global fiber infrastructure. This year, Peter dove into the recently announced Amazon S3 Glacier …

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How to Implement #CloudMigrationAutomation

How to Implement Cloud Migration Automation

Cloud adoption is now increasing day by day. 30% of all IT budgets are allocated to adopting cloud computing services. To ensure the cost-effectiveness of such budget allocation, maximize your cloud migration processes through automation. Automating cloud migrations creates reliable, repeatable results across multiple environments to accelerate and simplify the entire migration process.  Achieve cloud …

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Leveraging AWS for #Backup and #DisasterRecovery — 8 Best DR Practices 2

Leveraging AWS for Backup and Disaster Recovery — 8 Best DR Practices

In today’s market, all companies are technology companies. Yet, Invenio IT reports that every 1 in 5 organizations does not have a disaster recovery plan. A company without a disaster recovery is prone to the type of IT disaster (from server corruptions, data center failures and cyberattacks) that can disrupt the entire functioning of day-to-day …

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AWS Cloud Migration - #Migration Assessment, Strategizing & Best Practices2

AWS Cloud Migration: Migration Assessment, Strategizing & Best Practices

According to TechJury, a ratio of 16 out of 20 businesses shifted to a cloud-based infrastructure in 2020. This ratio is only going to continue to increase exponentially as more and more companies take advantage of cloud migration rather than remaining with traditional on-premises infrastructures. AWS offers a huge upside with negligible disadvantages to all …

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#AWSCloudMigration - How To Determine First-Mover Workloads

AWS Cloud Migration: How To Determine First-Mover Workloads

Cloud Migration takes a lot of planning and assessments to shift workloads safely without interrupting your business. The cloud infrastructure is limitless with a range of benefits. Still, it also poses some complications along the process, especially for those companies who want to move their critical workload without disturbing their running operations.  So how exactly …

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Optimizing Prometheus and Grafana with the #PrometheusOperator

Optimizing Prometheus and Grafana with the Prometheus Operator

Taking a proactive and efficient approach to Kubernetes cluster monitoring can help engineering teams identify and predict many critical problems like CPU outage, memory outage, storage issues well in advance of these issues taking a toll on a business. Companies of all sizes such as enterprises like CERN monitor petabytes of their Kubernetes cluster data …

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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Terraform - Enabling TypeScript & Python Support feature image

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Terraform: Enabling TypeScript & Python Support

It’s not a leap to propose that Terraform is the DevOps cornerstone for Infrastructure as Code (IAC). Terraform’s adoption since its mid-2014 release to the software development landscape has been meteoric. More than 8000 organizations are using Terraform for infrastructure automation. To successfully use the IAC tool, it’s important to optimize HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). …

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AWS EC2 Image Builder: Automating OS Image Build Pipelines

Automation continues to be a major growing trend in today’s cloud infrastructure landscape. Service providers like Amazon Web Services are integrating better, more advanced automation tools to make the life of administrators easier. Automation allows for workflows to be more efficient, especially with more tasks being executed without the need for human input. Until very …

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