AWS is innovating fast. This is a summary of what happened during past month. Announcements and News AWS Certificate Manager allows to generate SSL/TLS certificates in the following regions: US East (N.Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), […]
Archives for May 2016
vSphere Thick Client End of Life – A Look at the HTML 5 Client Fling
On May 18th VMware announced the end of the road for the C# vSphere Thick Client. The next version of vSphere the thick client will not be available. VMware has been building up to this moment and previously announced they wanted to move to a web based client to have maximum compatibility and mobility. The current versions […]
VMware Horizon View 7: Instant Clone Desktop Pool [Part 8]
In Part 8 of this Boring series I will be setting up an Instant Clone Desktop Pool. This is one of the coolest features announced of Horizon 7 in my opinion! You may have heard of Project Fargo (aka vmFork) announced during the keynote speech of VMworld 2014. This is the result of that project! Instant Clone […]
Integrate SQS and Lambda: serverless architecture for asynchronous workloads
The Gold Standard for modern cloud-native applications is a serverless architecture. AWS Lambda allows you to implement scalable and fault tolerant applications without the need of a single virtual machine. A serverless infrastructure based on AWS Lambda has two key benefits: You don’t need to manage a fleet of virtual machines anymore. Deploying new versions […]
Free ebook: Cloud Native Applications
Cloud Native Applications is a collection of hand-picked chapters presenting five topics that will give you insights into the world of cloud computing. Get a free copy now! Andreas and I, authors of Amazon Web Services in Action, selected these specific topics to teach you how you can gain value from cloud computing. You’ll learn […]
Pro bono: non-profit project wanted
Andreas and I would like to give away one month of our consulting time to a non-profit project for free. We can help you with anything related to AWS, DevOps, Software Development (Node.js, Java, Scala, Erlang). Are you a researcher trying to analyze huge amounts of data? We have experience with BigData solutions on AWS […]
DIY AWS Security Review
A regular security review of your AWS account can reveal security issues with little effort. There are some very easy things you can automatically check with the help of the AWS Command Line Interface that have a big impact. Limit network traffic from 0.0.0.0/0 Allowing traffic from the public internet is not bad by default. […]