A Face in the Cloud – Angelos Efthimiou, AWS re:Invent 2018 Special
It has! And Cloudreach years go by so much faster! The biggest news, since our last chat, is probably my new role as Cloud Enablement Leader. I am extremely excited and feel very privileged that I got the opportunity to lead one of our two Professional Services teams in DACH. What changes have you […]
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam: resources and tips
Cloudreach have been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 9 years, and during this time we’ve grown to over 600 people and have more than 500 AWS certs between us. “Promote personal growth” is one of Cloudreach’s core values and as such we strongly encourage everyone in the business, from Project Managers to Sales, […]
Google Cloud Certified: Comparing and Contrasting GCP exams
The Google Cloud Certified designation means you’ve demonstrated the necessary skills to leverage Google Cloud technology in a way that transforms businesses and meaningfully impacts the people and customers they serve. Largely, the exams aim to be a practical baseline assessment of day-to-day duties at a Google Cloud Platform-oriented company. Previously, I have done the […]
Deploying reusable, higher level resources with AWS-CDK
Introducing the AWS CDK AWS recently released the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). According to the authors of the CDK, it is an infrastructure modeling framework that allows you to define your cloud resources using an imperative programming interface. The AWS CDK is basically a wrapper around CloudFormation, which abstracts CloudFormation definitions of AWS resources into […]
Cloudreach: being one step ahead for working parents
This morning my son woke up ill. Before working for Cloudreach, this would have meant phoning in my absence for the day, leaving colleagues in the lurch and (possibly) being in the boss’ bad books. But not now! I’m a guilt-free Mum and a full-time employee who works for a company leading the way […]
A Face in the Cloud – Zach Morgan, Business Development Consultant
Here at Cloudreach, we believe that the growth of a great business is fuelled by great people. It is our talented individuals that make Cloudreach the success it is. Zach Morgan, our Business Development Consultant, has been instrumental in helping us grow our cloudy presence in the Midwest. We caught up with him ahead of […]
Using Sceptre to package and deploy complex AWS Lambda
At Cloudreach, hundreds of deployments are run every day to create or modify Lambda functions for our customers. Things usually go smoothly, until there is a dependency on a package which does not exist in AWS runtime. The question then arises: how do we package and deploy this function? That’s where Sceptre comes in! […]
Microsoft Inspire 2018 – a week in the desert
Writing this post on my way back from Microsoft Inspire 2018 – this year held in Las Vegas, Nevada. In July. It’s hard to describe the heat unless you’ve been to a desert before, but it’s 40+ degrees in the summer, all day. Weather aside, it’s been a great week and I thought it worth […]
Containerize This! How to use PHP, Apache, MySQL within Docker containers
Continuing with the Containerize This! series, we’re looking at common web application technologies and how they can be used within Docker containers effectively. PHP, Apache, and MySQL have a very large market share on content management systems and web applications on the internet, and with so many developers using these technologies, there is a lot […]
