This post focuses more on a personal problem I experienced some time ago....and some time ago, I did it. After privately swearing to myself that I'd never leave an EC2 instance powered on when not in use, I left one on and paid the price, literally, when my monthly AWS bill was 300% higher than … Continue reading My Poor Man’s AWS Power Management
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AWS Storage Gateway (Volume) “not ready” when Performing Veeam Backups
The intent of this post isn't necessarily to explain how to use an AWS “Volume” Storage Gateway with Veeam as much as it is sharing a problem I had when trying to perform full backups to the repository that used the volume gateway. If you’re interested, the process of setting up an AWS Volume SG … Continue reading AWS Storage Gateway (Volume) “not ready” when Performing Veeam Backups
2017 Review in Pictures – Las Vegas, NV | AWS re:Invent 2017
I suppose we all have our favorite places to go....personally those cities with MLB baseball teams rank among my favorites, especially if the home team is in town and I can catch a game. Las Vegas (this city itself) however, is not one of my personal favorites though I do like that I can walk … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – Las Vegas, NV | AWS re:Invent 2017
2017 Review in Pictures – San Francisco, CA | VMware EUC PTAB
In June 2017, I had the pleasure of attending the always informative EUC PTAB meetings at VMware HQ in Palo Alto, CA. Not only do you get to interact with partners across the world but you get "futures" from various VMware product groups. This PTAB focused on the EUC product line, focusing primarily on Workspace … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – San Francisco, CA | VMware EUC PTAB
2017 Review in Pictures – New Orleans, LA | VeeamON
On our About page, I mention many things....perhaps bordering on TMI. Do you really care that I have a Stephen A. Smith type affection for Aaron Rodgers?!? If Adam ever comes into work and says to me, "Ben Roethlisberger is a better QB than Aaron Rodgers!", our friendship may end! I'm just kidding of course, … Continue reading 2017 Review in Pictures – New Orleans, LA | VeeamON
AWS – Converting EC2 from an On-Demand to Reserved Instance
I could be dead wrong, but I imagine that many customers begin their AWS journey using on-demand instances in order to "test the water" to avoid making rash long-term commitment. Now let's assume the initial testing of an organizations application(s) in AWS is successful and the organization is ready to go "all in" the cloud, … Continue reading AWS – Converting EC2 from an On-Demand to Reserved Instance
5 Questions with…..Jonathan Adair – Sr. Systems Engineer – Nutanix
Some time ago, I mentioned to Adam that I thought it would be fun to do a "5 Questions with....." interview with partners that we meet and/or customers we work with as we are constantly meeting and working with interesting people. The plan is to start the interview with a basic introductory question, then dig … Continue reading 5 Questions with…..Jonathan Adair – Sr. Systems Engineer – Nutanix
Did you manually delete a resource created by AWS CloudFormation?
"There's no compression algorithm for experience. You can't learn certain lessons without going through the curve." Andy Jassy, CEO AWS There's no substitute for experience, I'm sure this is a lesson we've all learned many times. I had a refresher course in this recently while trying to further refine a CloudFormation template I've been working … Continue reading Did you manually delete a resource created by AWS CloudFormation?
AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC319 — GPS: Build Once, Deploy Many: Architecting Deployments CloudFormation
Here are some raw notes from GPSTEC319 -- GPS: Build Once, Deploy Many: Architecting and Building Automated, Reusable Reference Deployments with AWS CloudFormation what they learned from building over 50 reference deployments by automating deployments, we can reduce human error A day in the life of IT (stages) discover solutions to a business problem (partner, vendor, … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC319 — GPS: Build Once, Deploy Many: Architecting Deployments CloudFormation
Setup #AWS Inter-Region VPC Peering
Last week, AWS announced support for Inter-Region VPC Peering: Amazon EC2 now allows peering relationships to be established between Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across different AWS regions. Inter-Region VPC Peering allows VPC resources like EC2 instances, RDS databases and Lambda functions running in different AWS regions to communicate with each other using private IP addresses, … Continue reading Setup #AWS Inter-Region VPC Peering