Introduction: Security is now one of the core topics any architect or DevOps take into consideration when designing and building a web hosting environment, with internet expansion, it’s becoming very normal to receive DDOS attacks for different goals, like attempting of stealing your website data, or using your environment like a basement for attacking other...
Background Implementing Multi Writer Replication has always been a challenge, before AWS we tried many tools and configurations to support multiple masters and slaves, however, we end update two to 3 days after that replication has crashed and data is becoming inconsistent. Introduction: Amazon Aurora is one of the nicest features AWS has, it has...
Introduction: Increasing EBS disk space is a simple process that can be easily achieved from the AWS console, and you can follow aws documentation to implement it. so the question here, what about reducing EBS disk space, in some cases where you find your self required to do that, for example, you find out later...
Introduction It’s time to get more value from your data. The key? A new business framework we call the Data Flywheel. How can you build your Data Flywheel? Move data and workloads to the cloud, scale storage with data lakes, leverage purpose-built databases and build data-driven applications, analyze all of your data, and innovate with...
Background: S3 the AWS service for object storage, it’s not using POSIX protocol and hence we can’t mount it directly, however, there are some open-source tools that help in mounting your S3 bucket as a standard file system. Why Mounting S3 as File System? in many cases, you may have an application that has no...
Background: AWS is now the leading global cloud services provider with more than 14 regions across the world, companies no matter the size of their infrastructure is moving towards using the cloud services for many reasons, however, the majority have no team or individuals with enough experience to manage these cloud environments, for this reason,...