Introduction AWS HIPPA Compliance is a ubiquitous topic; HIPAA was expanded in 2009 by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. HIPAA and HITECH establish a set of federal standards intended to protect the security and privacy of PHI. HIPAA and HITECH impose requirements related to the use and disclosure of...
Introduction: Many customers who need local processing and very low latency. in addition they no longer need to spend time creating detailed hardware specifications, soliciting & managing bids from multiple disparate vendors, or racking & stacking individual servers, this is now achievable by using aws outposts. What is AWS Outposts? Its a new fully managed...
Introduction: AWS Auto Scaling is one of the most powerful features and reasons to move your applications to the cloud, as it helps you in building resilient architecture and reduce the cost of maintaining infrastructure with the highest capacity needed. However, there are a few items to consider when building an auto-scaling architecture, to ensure...
Introduction One of the common issues we ran into when running an application on a multi-server environment is how to manage sessions. especially an AWS auto-scaling architecture. In this article, we’re going to discuss some approaches we used in our manage environments to overcome such issues. Load Balancer Session Stickness: AWS application load balancer...
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...