Laura Hyatt

It's disappointing to see the news that the CMA has chosen to renew its contract with AWS – despite currently investigating the impact that hyperscaler anti-competitive practices are having on UK cloud.   In all honesty, it’s a huge blow to all those operating in UK cloud. This could have been a way to promote competition in the UK market and support the challenger and homegrown providers, rather than signing the biggest deal yet with the hyperscaler provider.   I shared my thoughts on the situation with Christine Horton, who explored the impact of agreements, like the UK’s One Government Value Agreement 2.0 (OGVA), have had on public sector IT spending.   There’s an election on the horizon and whoever’s in No.10 this time next year needs to be considering this with some urgency.    Take a look at Christine’s article in Channel Futures here: https://lnkd.in/ek3H4743

18

6 Comments

It’s happening! Here’s another way to stay up to date on the news and updates coming from re:Invent, starting now! #AWS #reInvent

6

Crooks stole AWS credentials from misconfigured sites then kept them in open S3 bucket https://ift.tt/FTAEjtb ShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Exclusive  A massive online heist targeting AWS customers during which digital crooks abused misconfigurations in public websites and stole source code, thousands of credentials, and other secrets remains "ongoing to this day," according to security researchers.… via The Register - Security https://ift.tt/sGJYTIg December 09, 2024 at 11:15AM

1

🕵️‍♀️ Kubernetes Secrets got you puzzled? Sam Gabrail, Platform Engineer and Trainer, has your back. In his latest video and blog, Sam demystifies Kubernetes Secrets, busts common myths, and shows you how to secure them effortlessly with Akeyless Security. Learn: ✔️What Kubernetes Secrets are and why you need them. ✔️Types of Kubernetes Secrets and their uses. ✔️Common misconceptions debunked. ✔️Hands-on demo with Akeyless. Check the blog and video for clear, actionable insights and take control of your Kubernetes Secrets. Read here to get started! https://okt.to/sEPfSu #DevSecOps #DevOps #SecretsManagement

21

Not sure who needs this, but you can now have up to 1 MILLION S3 buckets per AWS account 😂 UPDATE: Some of you have mentioned this being useful for multi-tenant applications. Instead of one tenant per folder in the same bucket, you can now have one bucket per tenant and can more easily track S3 costs by tenant.

291

31 Comments

Exciting news from Amazon Web Services (AWS): The launch of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud! This new, independent cloud is designed to meet the strictest data residency and operational autonomy requirements for public sector organizations and highly regulated industries. The first region is set to launch in Germany by the end of 2025 with a €7.8 billion investment by 2040. This is a major commitment from AWS to supporting European digital sovereignty. I'm particularly excited about the positive impact this will have on the region: - €17.2 billion estimated contribution to Germany's GDP by 2040. - Creation of highly skilled jobs in cloud and IT. - Investment in cloud workforce development programs. Are you interested in learning more? Check out the AWS European Digital Sovereignty blog for details: https://lnkd.in/d_7JSBDp For all ISVs out there, let's discuss how the AWS European Sovereign Cloud can benefit your organization! #AWS #CloudComputing #Europe #DigitalSovereignty

39

1 Comment

🚀 Excited to announce my upcoming talk at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent KUB404 | Building Production-Grade Resilient Architectures with Amazon EKS Are you a platform engineer managing hundreds of clusters? Join me and Niall Thomson to discover: - Strategies for managing and upgrading clusters at scale without compromising security, resiliency, performance, or cost - Leveraging open-source tools like ACK, Argo CD, and Backstage to build and maintain Amazon EKS clusters - Creating a single pane of glass inventory for your Amazon EKS clusters across your entire AWS organization - Architecture techniques for ensuring workload resiliency with enhanced observability Learn how to rapidly identify issues across your Amazon EKS clusters and take your infrastructure management to the next level! Save your spot now: https://bit.ly/kub404 #Kubernetes #DevOps #MultiCluster #Fleet #Observability #AmazonEKS #GitOps #Resiliency #reInvent

103

1 Comment

Thanks, to Damian Randell for the share. This learning provides insight into how Amazon Web Services (AWS) is sovereign-by-design. Provides information on how AWS delivers on the four pillars of the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge. Describes the integration of compliance, control, and continuity in creating a sovereign-by-design workload. Analyses how to build sovereign-by-design solutions that account for compliance, control, and continuity. Correlate AWS services to their use case in a sovereign-by-design solution.

6

This is a brilliant writeup by Bob Adewusi 👏 around what Isovalent have been doing with eBPF, from a DevOps/Cloud Engineers perspective. https://lnkd.in/eTs9fNF7 What I hadn't quite appreciated was how extensible eBPF is as an interface, equally brilliantly demonstrated by Kornilios Kourtis & Anastasios Papagiannis 👏 and their article showing how eBPF can be used for FIM (File Integrity Monitoring), with some major advantages. Even more interesting is the Tetragon agent to take things even further, including enforcement (blocking file operation). https://lnkd.in/eadBuACb I think I might have mentioned this before, but the Linux kernel is *everywhere* 😀 . #eBPF #Isovalent #CNI #FMI

33

1 Comment

Migrating from on prem to the cloud is commonplace but it can be a bit tricky when “real time” is required. Celfocus, in partnership with Google Cloud, is dedicated to simplifying this transition, ensuring key metrics in cost savings, scalability, and operational performance. Watch the video below where Bruno Santos, Executive Director of Global Business Development at Celfocus, and Brian Kracik, Head of Product Marketing - Telecom, Distributed Cloud, and Networking at Google Cloud, discuss how this collaboration makes complex migrations straightforward. #celfocus #celfocusdoing #CloudMigration #GoogleCloud  

39

2 Comments

45 days until #AWS #reinvent2024 in Las Vegas. Here is my top 10 list of the sessions I'm excited about: 1️⃣ OPN311 | Harnessing Apache ActiveMQ: ActiveMQ 6.x features and roadmap - with JB Onofré and Jules Graybill 2️⃣ ANT327 | What's new: Data streaming on AWS - with Ashish Palekarand Anusha Dasarakothapalli 3️⃣ ANT412 | Ingest streaming data into Apache Iceberg tables with AWS Streaming - with Ravikiran Rao and Amar Surjit 4️⃣ ANT324 | Accelerate value from data: Migrating from batch to steam processing - with Usama Naseem and Sofie Zilberman 5️⃣ ANT342 | Operate and scale managed Apache Kafka and Apache Flink clusters - with Sai Maddali and Ali Alemi 6️⃣ API401 | Multi-tenant Amazon SQS queues: Mitigating noisy neighbors - with Vinodh Kannan Sadayamuthu and Dirk Fröhner 7️⃣ API312 | Best practices to migrate your existing message broker to AWS - with Vinodh Kannan Sadayamuthu and Daniel Fargano 8️⃣ ANT318 | Building serverless streaming data pipelines for real-time analytics - with Mostafa Mansour and Gregory K. 9️⃣ AUT319 | Learnings from BMW's global software development platform on AWS - with Christian Mueller 🔟 FSI310 | BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking: Building a multi-region, multi-country data platform at scale - with Ignacio Fernandez and Federico Esteban What sessions have you marked as favorites? Drop the session ID in the comments. The catalog is available here:

106

3 Comments

My interview for The New Stack on Kubernetes v1.32; big thanks for Joab Jackson for the enjoyable conversation and excellent article: do give it a read to learn more about the importance of achieving 100% Conformance Testing coverage, the DRA updates and what that means for workloads like AI, the release theme, and plenty more. https://lnkd.in/de4npPrf

16

1 Comment

This post is a good reminder of the importance of continuously monitoring your cloud spending. Increasing your AWS Expenditure by 200% in a week https://lnkd.in/e-D8t3ub #aws #sqs #cloudcomputing #finops #iam

1

After London DevOps great talks from Nathan Webster on gold standard infrastructure pipelines. I had a few conversion we people on what we use at Greenpeace International in our infrastructure pipelines. So I done a very quick medium article (some think i been trying to do for a while), about the tooling and a very brief explanation on why. I have more on the theory, practice and evaluation of our automation ecosystem, which i happy to talk about (and may be write) if people what to know more. #DevSecOps #infrastructurepipelines #Gitlab #Terraform #Infracost

15

1 Comment

If you've used AWS DMS, I know the pain you've probably felt 😬. I've written a The Scale Factory blog post on just this, so if you're part of the club give this a read and let me know if you agree. Or if you haven't yet used it, don't panic. Hopefully this blog will support you through your AWS DMS journey.

8

1 Comment

With AWS Machine Learning capabilities now easily accessible, individuals can build cutting-edge models that deliver real value with minimal effort. However, once you’ve proven a small use case, how do you scale and operationalize your models for enterprise use? To take a project from concept to production-ready, organizations need to incorporate enterprise-grade functionality—like tracking code changes, enforcing security standards, and ensuring policy and governance compliance. Using Terraform to build and manage the lifecycle of an ML/AI platform on AWS provides a scalable approach to address these requirements. Terraform can help orchestrate your infrastructure, ensuring your ML models are production-ready and enterprise-compliant. #MachineLearning #AWS #Terraform #AIOps #DevOps #CloudInnovation

4

Check out my recent blog on the difference between alias and not alias records #cloud #cloudcomputing #aws #azure #gcp #softwaredevelopment

6

2 Comments