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Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud Computing is the Answer to Your Big Data Initiatives
The cloud can help you process and analyze your big data faster, leading to insights that can improve your products and business. This is the first article in our "big data in the cloud" blog post series. Click here to sign up for our email list and get notified of...
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Thinking Serverless – Using AWS SAM CLI to Build and Test a Serverless App Locally (video tutorial)
Here's a video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on May 17, 2018 about how to use AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) to build and test a serverless app locally. In this presentation, Meetup member Neil Giarratana uses SAM CLI to build...
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Containers vs. Serverless: Which Should You Use, and When?
Serverless and containers are often viewed as competing development technologies. But when integrated, they can be a powerful combination. An enterprise cloud architect (let’s call him Jack, not his real name) from a large and well-known finance company reached out to...
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SFTP Gateway product update, July 2018 – version 1.003.2 available, annual pricing, and more!
Version 1.003.2, annual billing, and advanced support plans now available, and sign up to beta test version 2.0 We hope that SFTP Gateway has been helpful for you! There’s been a lot of exciting things going on and we wanted to give you a quick update on all of it....
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How to create a Redshift stack with AWS CloudFormation
Use this CloudFormation template to launch Redshift into your VPC subnet with S3 as the data source This is the seventh and final article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. You can read the first six here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should...
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How to incorporate S3, EC2, and IAM in a CloudFormation template
Here's how you can use CloudFormation to have EC2, IAM, and S3 work together This is the sixth article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. You can read the first five here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should Implement IaC Now Infrastructure as...
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How AWS CloudFormation Works (and How to Create a Virtual Private Cloud with it)
Here’s an in-depth walkthrough of how CloudFormation works and an analysis of a template that creates a VPC This is the fifth article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. You can read the first four here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should...
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What is AWS CloudFormation and how can it help your IaC efforts?
CloudFormation is a powerful Infrastructure as Code tool that can help automate and manage your AWS deployments. This is the fourth article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. You can read the first three here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should...
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15 Infrastructure as Code tools you can use to automate your deployments
Automate your infrastructure deployments and configurations with these Infrastructure as Code tools. This is the third article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. You can read the first two here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should Implement IaC...
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Infrastructure as Code: 6 best practices to get the most out of IaC
Apply these best practices to get the most out of your IaC efforts. This is the second post in our series on Infrastructure as Code. Check out our first post, Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should Implement IaC Now, and click here to sign up to be notified...
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