The Value of an AWS Well-Architected Review
Is your cloud environment architected to meet your desired business and technical goals? Consider a formal evaluation of your cloud infrastructure with an AWS Well-Architected Review. Learn, measure, and build using architectural best practices to enhance and modernize your infrastructure. This assessment will help your business optimize and accelerate your AWS environment to meet your […]
Why you should consider Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has revolutionized the way that infrastructure is provisioned. In short, IaC is defining your cloud infrastructure (Amazon VPC, subnet, Amazon EC2 instances, security groups, etc.) in a template file or in actual code. Initially, you could only define the infrastructure in a template using JSON or YAML and then create a stack using AWS […]
Content Management Systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
A content management system (CMS) is an application allowing users to become authors of their own content. An administrator of a CMS site has the ability to add new pages, text, files, and completely own the structure and content of their website without any backend access or development knowledge. CMS sites can be efficiently hosted […]
Why Innovative Leverages DevOps
Innovative Solutions is a mid-sized company, but many times we encounter communication and coordination problems at an enterprise scale. Internally, we have multiple development teams with each team comprised of multiple team members bringing a range of skill sets. Each team interacts with third-party vendors, providers, and clients who often bring their own development teams […]
Why Innovative uses a CI/CD pipeline
Here at Innovative Solutions we take the mantra “always be learning” to heart. It’s evident in our approach to changing the way in which we deploy our applications. A well-structured CI/CD pipeline improves many aspects of development. Over the years we’ve made massive headway in learning from our previous deployment woes and adopting a more continuous and […]
Why monitoring and logging are crucial to cloud computing success
Gone are the days that monolithic applications run on a single server on-premise. The current landscape of cloud computing and microservices has made many aspects of computing easier but monitoring and logging is not one of them. Instead of having logs on one web server, they are now often highly distributed across many different systems. […]
Managing your EC2 Microsoft patch management
Managing Microsoft updates manually or through WSUS can be challenging in large environments. AWS Systems Manager allows you to manage all your AWS EC2 infrastructure with a single pane of glass. Within this single pane of glass, you can view your EC2 inventory, patch baselines, compliance against those baselines, and run ad hoc scans and […]
Desktop as a Service in AWS
DaaS in AWS – A perfect harmony of rapid deployment and IT Management The IT department of most organizations is responsible for deploying desktops to end-users and can be considered a routine task that can be optimized from a cost and time standpoint. With AWS Workspaces, deploying desktops via the GUI (up to 20 at […]
Migrating to AWS
May Be Easier Than You Think Many companies are migrating their workloads to AWS as-is to take advantage of the capabilities of the cloud. Moving your existing workload allows you retire aging hardware that is prone to failures. Microsoft Windows is typically supported for ~10 years meaning the hardware is due for a refresh before […]
SQL 2008 End of life
Choosing the best path when migrating unsupported Microsoft SQL 2008 to AWS On July 9, 2019, support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end. After this date, Microsoft will no longer support these products via product enhancements (service packs/CUs) and security updates. There are two main ways to run SQL on AWS: Amazon […]