From managing multi-tenant environments to rapidly scaling up users, the AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you build a reliable, scalable, secure foundation for your Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. Much like raising children, your SaaS application needs structure, room to grow, and occasional time-outs. Today, let’s review the advantages of using AWS as a market…
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Zero Trust in AWS: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Paranoid Security
Look, I’ll be straight with you. In the wild world of cloud security, treating your network like an open house is basically leaving your digital front door wide open with a welcome mat that says “Hackers, Please Come In!” That’s where Zero Trust comes in – and trust me, I’ve learned this the hard way….
Simple AI managed services
Machine learning used to be a field dominated by a select group of data scientists, making it seemingly out of reach for most companies due to its associated costs and complexities. However, due to many managed and foundational AI improvements, I have embraced the transformative power of machine learning. Due to a recent client project,…
Creating a staging environment with obfuscation
I have created hundreds of development environments. Today, I want to review how to secure your production data in the staging environment. A staging environment is used to test new features being developed but at the scale of production data with production level security enabled. It’s as close to production environment as you can get…
The Subjectivity of Risk
Recently I made an announcement on LinkedIn about my departure from Amazon so I could go back to being self-employed. This was during a time where all the FAANG companies and many of the fortune 500 companies started to make mass layoffs (tens of thousands) as companies were preparing for another economic recession. As I…
How to over-complicate hosting a website
Yes, I have enjoyed over-complicating my website architecture to keeps my boredom low, but I also made it a cheap solution for $2.06/month. I anticipate that I could grow my website readers by 5,000,000 people a month and my costs would remain roughly the same. Okay, I don’t like the word “cheap” so I will…
Anti-Insanity Vacation Helper
We belong to a timeshare organization called Interval International. Yes, we were suckered into this relationship about 10 years ago. However, we do the math every year and it still pencils out for us to use a timeshare company to schedule most of our vacations. We get about 3 to 4 weeks of vacations a…