by XTIVIA | Aug 28, 2025 | Blog, Cloud
SUMMARY: To reduce Snowflake costs, organizations must implement a comprehensive optimization strategy that involves right-sizing virtual warehouses, tuning SQL queries, managing storage efficiently, and establishing strong governance and monitoring. Analyze and...
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 | Nov 27, 2024 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
Security and management are essential when managing access to Entra joined machines. Using Microsoft Entra credentials achieves both and is a fairly straightforward setup when logging onto a device locally. Connecting remotely via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) can...
by Shane Schlabach | Aug 1, 2024 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
As Azure grows and resources continue to improve, Microsoft will continuously retire old and outdated resources. Any resources not migrated by the retirement date may stop working as Microsoft shuts down the endpoints on which they run. Below is a list of all...
by XTIVIA | Jul 19, 2024 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
CrowdStrike recently experienced a significant outage affecting Windows hosts due to a defect in a single content update. This issue has impacted numerous environments, including Azure-related virtual machines and on-premises workstations. In this blog post,...
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 Phani Krishna Pochiraju | Jan 18, 2024 | Blog, Cloud, Testing
Introduction Cloud-based testing, an integral component of contemporary software development, is at the forefront of the IT industry’s significant transformation. This transformation is primarily driven by the adoption of ‘Virtualization,’ a...
