by Mahesh Gorregatu | Oct 30, 2025 | AWS, Blog
SUMMARY: This tutorial walks through the precise, multi-step configuration required to establish a serverless, continuous, and near-real-time data ingestion pipeline, utilizing Snowpipe to automatically load data from AWS S3 into Snowflake The setup begins by...
by XTIVIA | Oct 22, 2025 | AWS, Blog
SUMMARY: Recent prominent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages compel IT leaders to shift away from reliance on a single cloud provider toward a Multi-Cloud or Hybrid-Cloud strategy by immediately highlighting the immense risk associated with the Single Point of Failure...
by Shane Schlabach | Jun 5, 2025 | AWS, Blog, Cloud
SUMMARY: Organizations can enhance security and compliance by following distinct, step-by-step procedures to encrypt existing unencrypted AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, securing data that is not protected automatically by default. Encrypting a data volume...
by Dean Mikalajczyk | May 22, 2025 | AWS, Azure, Blog, Cloud
SUMMARY: Terraform, an open-source tool from HashiCorp, enables businesses to automate, provision, and manage complex multi-cloud environments with control and consistency by implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles. Terraform promotes a powerful immutable...
by Shane Schlabach | Mar 11, 2025 | AWS, Blog, Cloud
When using public IP addresses in AWS, it is a good idea to regularly monitor and audit them. This can be cumbersome as IPs can be assigned to a wide range of services across multiple accounts. Whether using a stand-alone account or an Organization, AWS provides a...
by Shane Schlabach | Jul 11, 2024 | AWS, Blog, Cloud, Databases
When creating an S3 Replication Rule, objects that were uploaded prior to the rule being created will not be replicated. These will need to be replicated manually with an S3 Batch Operation. This can also be used for occasional one-off replications if needed....
by Shane Schlabach | Jul 9, 2024 | AWS, Blog, Cloud
When you create a general-purpose S3 bucket, AWS automatically redundantly saves all data across a minimum of 3 availability zones in the region where the bucket was created. This allows for 99.999999999% file durability, which ensures that you will never lose any of...
by Shane Schlabach | Jan 4, 2024 | AWS, Blog
One of AWS’s excellent features is that public IP addresses, known as Elastic IPs, have been free as long as they were assigned to a resource. That is about to change on February 1, 2024. All Elastic IPs will be charged at $0.005 per hour while allocated to your...
by Shane Schlabach | Dec 21, 2023 | AWS, Blog
You’ve heard of 12 days of Christmas!? Well, below are 12 Tips and tricks for AWS! Enjoy! #1 Require MFA for all users To help secure your AWS environment, it is highly recommended to require MFA for all users logging into the AWS Management Console. Follow the...
by Shane Schlabach | Dec 7, 2023 | AWS, Blog, Cloud
Session Manager is an AWS-managed service that provides users access to their instances without using a Bastion Host or opening inbound ports, such as 3389 for RDP & 22 for SSH. It can also offer access when an instance is unresponsive. There are a couple of...
