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...
by Mani Rautroy | Nov 29, 2023 | AWS, Blog
Overview With AWS integration, you can create an API Gateway to expose other AWS services, such as Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Lambda. To integrate AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) with Amazon API Gateway, you can set up a combination of AWS...
by Shane Schlabach | Oct 3, 2023 | AWS, Blog
Setting up an environment in the cloud can be a daunting and overwhelming task. But it doesn’t need to be. This article will help walk you through the basic first steps to take after setting up your AWS account. These aren’t intended to be technical but...
by Vivek Agarwal | Sep 26, 2023 | AWS, Blog, Cloud, Data Management
Navigating the world of data engineering tools can often be a complex undertaking. Deciding when to use one solution over another, such as Amazon EMR versus AWS Glue, often hinges on careful consideration and understanding of these services’ specific features...
by Vivek Agarwal | Sep 22, 2023 | AWS, Blog
Welcome to our exploration of the top 10 AWS Glue cost traps, pitfalls, and mistakes that we find AWS customers stumbling upon. While AWS Glue is our preferred ETL, data catalog, data crawler, and data quality tool for AWS data lakes, AWS data lakehouses, and AWS data...
