Tag: SysOps
What is SysOps and why are we so excited about it?
Last year‚ we took a long hard look at our internal processes and decided we could be doing so much more when it came to integrating expertise and knowledge across different projects. With this in mind‚ we created our new SysOps team. This is how it works and why we’re so excited about it. SysOps…
AWS S3 security best practices – Part 1
AWS S3 has been the subject of some of the largest data breaches in recent history. From the leak of nearly 200m US voters’ voting preferences to the exposure of 48m personal data records from private social media accounts to the 100GB treasure trove of classified information left exposed by the Pentagon‚ there’s been some massive AWS breaches recently. You may be…
AWS S3 security best practices – Part 2
If you’ve come from Part 1‚ you’ll now have a solid understanding of the security measures you can integrate into S3. If you didn’t‚ it’s recommended to have a read through of that post so you’re on solid footing for the topics discussed in this one. So you have your S3 buckets locked down‚ encrypted‚ with CloudTrail…
Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
“Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time.” Werner Vogels‚ 10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services Disaster recovery is all about preparing for failure and having a recovery plan to enact following a disaster. Any event that impacts a business in terms of time‚ money or reputation could be…
Optimising storage costs in AWS S3
System Architect‚ Stephen Jefferson‚ explains how the creation of lifecycle policies can lessen storage costs whilst improving data management‚ delivering the first of what will be a series of posts by our crack SysOps team. — Without maintaining and performing housekeeping on S3‚ you’ll quickly find your S3 buckets filling with data. Over time‚ a…
