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

AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC302 — GPS: Anti-Patterns: Learning from Failure

I must be getting tired.  Honestly, I thought posting my session notes would be a pretty straightforward task but because I love documentation so much, I've made it harder than it needs to be.  My note taking problem is that I try to jot down everything as opposed to what may ultimately matter.  Anyway, on … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC302 — GPS: Anti-Patterns: Learning from Failure

AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC321 — GPS: VMware on AWS Cloud Technical Deep Dive & Native AWS Services Integration

As you might guess, there was a lot of interest in this topic as the session was filled to capacity.  At a high-level, VMware on AWS architecture was reviewed along with how to use native AWS services with VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) workloads with the goal that those attending would walk away with practical … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC321 — GPS: VMware on AWS Cloud Technical Deep Dive & Native AWS Services Integration

AWS re:Invent Notes: SID331 — Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy

Here's a couple interesting fun facts in the form of numbers from yesterday (11/27), 6.46 and 0.  Going to and from the various sessions, I walked 6.46 miles yesterday and I had 0 desserts.  0 desserts!  I had a dessert Sunday night, a good one called "The cookie jar".  The cookie jar was a big, … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: SID331 — Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy

AWS re:Invent Notes: FSV301 — Security Anti-Patterns: Mistakes to Avoid

Before you read any further, I want to make it clear once again, that these are my notes from the AWS re:Invent sessions I'm attending.  I certainly want these to be helpful and informative, I hope they fuel your desire to learn more about AWS, I just don't want you to take them "as gospel … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: FSV301 — Security Anti-Patterns: Mistakes to Avoid

Part 5 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Backup Jobs

On the 5th and final part of this series, we’ll look at creating backup jobs and accessing archived tapes.  Links for parts 1-4 are shown below: Post 1 – Deploying the Tape Gateway Post 2 – Creating Tapes Post 3 – Attaching the VTL to Windows Post 4 - Connect Veeam to VTL Creating Tape Media … Continue reading Part 5 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Backup Jobs

Part 4 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Connect Veeam to VTL

On the 4th part of this series, we’ll look at adding an AWS Tape Gateway VTL into our Veeam infrastructure as well performing some basic tape functions.  Links for parts 1-3 are shown below: Post 1 - Deploying the Tape Gateway Post 2 - Creating Tapes Post 3 - Attaching the VTL to Windows Adding … Continue reading Part 4 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Connect Veeam to VTL

Part 2 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Tapes

The diagram shown below, taken from Veeam's AWS/VTL Deployment Guide, is a representation of the infrastructure we are creating in this series: In part 1 of the Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway integration series, we looked at the process of deploying the AWS Tape Gateway OVF (Gateway VM) on VMware vSphere.  In this post, we'll … Continue reading Part 2 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Tapes