Tag: Devops Solutioning

Exploring the Power of IAM Roles Anywhere for Secure Access Management

Introduction:

In a cloud-driven environment, flexibility and security remain the top priorities for modern businesses. AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides IAM (Identity and Access Management) roles to manage access permissions inside the AWS ecosystem. But what happens when workloads, servers, applications, or containers, run outside AWS?

This is where IAM Roles Anywhere becomes a game-changer. It enables secure, temporary access for external workloads without relying on long-term credentials. This blog explores how IAM Roles Anywhere works and why it is essential for today’s distributed architectures. Continue reading “Exploring the Power of IAM Roles Anywhere for Secure Access Management”

Unpacking Our Findings From Assessing Numerous Infrastructures – Part 1

AWS Well-Architected framework can help you streamline your approach to ensure resilient, consistent, and scalable outcomes.

 

You can’t improve what you don’t measure. 

When things are not analyzed, changes become responses to hefty cloud bills or security breaches. AWS Well-Architected framework can help you identify issues early and streamline your approach to ensure resilient, consistent, and scalable outcomes. Continue reading “Unpacking Our Findings From Assessing Numerous Infrastructures – Part 1”

Apache Cassandra Migration Last Episode: 3x to 4x Migration

In the previous blog posts of this series, we learned the basics and X-DR Setup in Cassandra. Finally, we have arrived at our last phase: Cassandra migration to a newer version.

The last 2 years have been great on our database journey. We searched for the best database for our application and ended up using Cassandra. It proved to be quite fast, just what we needed for our use case. We started using Cassandra 3.1.2 which was fine but after running it for a year we realized that it was time to upgrade as, by then, v3.1.2 had lots of vulnerabilities.

Obviously, experimenting on current production was risky so we decided to go with our non-production first. We were running the same version 3.1.2 and X-DR Setup. In the previous blog, I explained the X-DR Setup you might want to refer to for proper understanding.

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Applications Hosting on ECS

Introduction

Applications hosting on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a cloud computing solution provided by AWS that enables organizations to manage, scale, and deploy containerized applications with ease. ECS simplifies container deployment and management, enabling developers to concentrate on creating and running their applications.

In this blog, we will create a repository, copy an image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), define a task, and set up an ECS cluster to host an application on Amazon ECS. Continue reading “Applications Hosting on ECS”

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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