Invest one hour in learning about AWS
Getting educated about cloud services early will make it easier to transition and will burnish your CV nicely too! Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a free virtual machine instance on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). All you have to do is register with an email address and a creditcard. Don’t worry, they really don’t charge your card […]
AWS obtain PROTECTED level certification for Australian Region
Earlier this week Amazon Web Services made a statement, indicating that the battle of tier-one public cloud providers is still heating up. Yesterday Matthew Graham (AWS Head of Security Assurance for Australia and New Zealand) announced that The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) had awarded PROTECTED certification to AWS for 42 of their cloud services. […]
Using the AWS CLI for Process Automation
Amazon Web Services is a well established cloud provider. In this blog, I am going to explore how we can interface with the orange cloud titan programmatically. First of all, lets explore why we may want to do this. You might be thinking “But hey, the folks at AWS have built a slick web interface which […]
Warm AWS WorkSpaces On a Schedule
AWS WorkSpaces VDI solution has two pricing options that you need to choose between for your implementation. Monthly Hourly (On demand) In my opinion it is always worth attempting to run your WorkSpaces VDI deployment in on-demand where there is chance of cost savings when the virtual desktops can be turned off and you will […]
QoS for AWS WorkSpaces Client
AWS WorkSpaces is a great low cost Virtual Desktop experience. Extremely easy to get started and build quick images to support your needs. During the implementation you are going to want to provide a Quality of Service policy (QoS) much like you would if you had Citrix or VMWare Horizon on-premises. WorkSpaces is slightly different […]