Multi AWS Account federation with Microsoft Azure Active Directory as IdP
When it comes to using Amazon Web Services in an enterprise environment, we think of Identity and Access Management being at the center of everything due to its importance for enterprises. Some of the key solutions which are used today relating to this are: Using a dedicated AWS Account as a central identification point for […]
AWS SSM in Action, the next generation of SSH
Over the last year AWS have introduced a lot a of new capabilities to extend the functionality of the EC2 Systems Manager. These features include: Parameters store Automation Patching Run Command State Manager / Inventory At re:Invent 2017, many features were introduced such as SSM PrivateLink and PCI compliance. I decided to investigate SSM SendCommand to […]
How to continuously assess the security of your AMIs
Jawad Seddar, Cloud Systems Developer at Cloudreach, gives insight on a continuous AMI assessment process using Amazon Inspector, Lambda and CloudWatch. Vulnerability assessments When deploying resources in the cloud or in your datacenters, it’s always recommended to make sure they are not affected by known vulnerabilities as these can easily be leveraged to […]
FPGAs and the Future of Parallelized Computation in the Cloud
Abstract: Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are a type of mutable hardware that can be reprogrammed and repurposed. This allows for quicker development time, time to market, and turnaround for hardware developers working on application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). “The nonrecurring engineering (NRE) expense of custom ASIC design far exceeds that of FPGA-based hardware solutions”, especially […]
Are we about to experience a big change in the developer role?
Developers are creative people that want to be mentally stimulated. With developments in Cloud Computing, the job role is changing a lot and we’re expecting code generation to have a big impact on how developers work. How will they feel about this? Developers have been creating software since the beginning of the computer age, and […]
Driving IoT forward: from Data Cars to the real-world
This year at our re:Invent booth we debuted Data Cars, which adds real-time cloud backed telemetry to a Scalextric set. Data Cars streams acceleration data from IoT devices onboard the slot cars, through a local device which performs data aggregation and preprocessing, and from there into AWS where the data is analysed and visualised. In […]
Digging into DevOps with AWS and Terraform
During our session at AWS Loft in Munich on November 22nd we presented “How to deploy AWS Infrastructure in a true DevOps fashion” using Terraform, AWS Codepipeline and AWS Codebuild. As best practise Cloudreach suggests to deploy infrastructure as a code using AWS Cloudformation, AWS CLI or our tool Sceptre. For the purpose of this […]
