Awscli on the bin

Amazon VPC Basics

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

For the past five weeks we have been getting deep in our Scalable Solutions series. At Entasis we work with our customers to help them build solutions that are Scalable in design, Resilient by nature, with Performance on demand. We feel that these three components are the pillars that all truly scalable solutions are built with. Here is what we have gone over thus far:

Week 1 – Amazon Route 53 Basics

Amazon EC2 Security Groups

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In this installment of our Scalable Solutions series we are going to be reviewing one of the core components of EC2, the security group. We have found that our customers find that the elasticity provided by security groups allows them to build more resilient solutions and expand them as performance dictates it, with consistent security policies.

In case you missed our previous articles you may want to go back and review these great resources.

AWS Application Load Balancer

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This week in our Scalable Solutions series we are going to be covering the Elastic Load Balancer (specifically the Application Load Balancer or v2). At Entasis we help our customers build elastic and resilient solutions with performance on-demand. If you need help finalizing your design, or implementing your vision please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at sales@entasistech.com. Also if you are just looking to learn more about AWS and you are in the North Dallas area we sponsor the AWS User Group of North Dallas at our offices in McKinney, TX. You can find this on meetup.com.

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

At Entasis we help our customers understand and modify their technology stacks so that scaling is a function of cost not a function of technology. However when we look at scaling one of the largest problems is the consistency of an environment. When we are running 100 application nodes then the opportunity for one node to go sideways and start handling traffic differently is much higher than if we only have 2 application nodes. So we work with our customers to help them abstract the configurations of their services from their code to enable their applications to auto-scale regardless of your hosting location. We are very familiar with public cloud, private cloud, multi cloud and hybrid cloud. If you need help in this area please reach out to our team at sales@entasistech.com.

AWS Certificate Manager

Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Today we are going to take a look at another one of my favorite services. AWS Certificate Manager. In this exploration we are going to be interacting with JSON which Powershell makes more difficult then it ought to. So please keep in mind that if you are using the AWS CLI on bash or cygwin or similar your mileage will vary (especially where it comes to parsing and generating JSON). Our goal is to be able to walk all the way through the certificate issuance process, including validation.