OpenSearch Alert Integration with SNS

Why Opt for Integrating Alerts with OpenSearch?

Monitoring the OpenSearch visualization dashboard 24*7 becomes challenging when application or system logs fail to appear. Therefore, it’s essential to establish alerts that promptly notify us when such issues arise. The flexibility and scalability of OpenSearch make it a compelling choice for implementing alerting solutions in various domains, from IT operations and security to business intelligence and analytics.

Overview of OpenSearch cluster

OpenSearch, a powerful and versatile search and analytics engine, plays a crucial role in helping you gain valuable insights from your data. However, staying on top of potential issues and anomalies in your OpenSearch cluster requires a proactive approach.

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Multi-Account Management using AWS Control Tower

Introduction

When an organization grows rapidly with time then the complexity of their cloud infrastructure, security concerns, and the need for better resource management also grows. Then there is a need for a more efficient and secure way to manage the workloads. To overcome these problems we can use multiple aws accounts in our aws environment. Some use cases where we can segregate AWS accounts are as follows: Continue reading “Multi-Account Management using AWS Control Tower”

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS): Solutions for Seamless Cloud Transition

Introduction

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) streamlines the process of moving your databases with speed and security.This service enables you to create, analyze, transform, and migrate your databases and analytics platforms from a single interface, helping you save time, resources, and money.Note that application downtime during migration is kept to a minimum depending on the source database. Database Migration Service (DMS) supports migrations involving most of the popular commercial and open- source databases.

In this blog, we will explore the AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) in detail. This managed service enables you to seamlessly and securely migrate your on-premises databases to the cloud. 

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Connection

When I was working on our client there was a task in which we had to migrate the application from azure cloud to AWS. Migrating the application was a later thing, first, we needed to create a secure connection between the two clouds so that we could migrate securely and encrypted, so for this, we thought of a Site-to-SiteVPN connection.
Through this blog, I will guide you on how we connect azure cloud to AWS cloud by AWS site-to-site VPN connection.

Why we used a Site-to-Site VPN connection?

AWS site-to-site VPN is a service offered by Amazon so that we can securely connect to our cloud. It creates a secure and encrypted connection between our Azure infrastructure and AWS infrastructure. AWS site-to-site VPN supports internet protocol security which gives secure and private communication between our on premises network and VPC.

Features of Site-to-Site VPN Connection

Secure and Encrypted communication:- It establishes a secure and encrypted connection between our clouds. This also ensures that data transmitted between the two networks is protected from unauthorized access.

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Cloud Cost Estimation with Infracost

Introduction

Estimating costs can be a nightmare for many enterprises. Cloud cost estimation is important for organizations to plan their budget and forecast expenses accurately. It is essential to monitor and analyze cloud usage regularly to optimize cloud spending and avoid unexpected expenses.

This process is very time-consuming, so there was a need for change. With Terraform, you can easily estimate cloud costs by leveraging Infracost, and you can easily compare potential bills between different vendors.

Working with cloud providers and DevOps is all about speed, efficiency, and cost management.

Infracost is a tool that is used to figure out how much the cloud resources will cost.

What is Infracost?

Infracost is a super cool tool that lets you calculate the cost of your Terraform resources on AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure before you even hit deploy. This enables you to see cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests.

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