In most EKS clusters, the majority of costs stem from the EC2 instances utilized for running containerized workloads. Achieving optimal sizing of compute resources necessitates a deep understanding of workload requirements. Therefore, it’s crucial to appropriately configure requests and limits and make necessary adjustments to these settings. Furthermore, factors like instance size and storage choices can impact workload performance, potentially resulting in unforeseen cost escalations and reliability issues.  Achieving effective resource management in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service ..read more

As organizations consider moving their applications, data, and infrastructure to the cloud, they encounter numerous challenges and factors to consider. A clearly outlined migration strategy becomes crucial for successfully managing this intricate process. Do you have full control of your enterprise’s applications? Can you easily identify which ones deliver optimal value, or which ones might be due for retirement, replacement, or migration? If uncertainty clouds your answers, it’s a clear sign that assessing your application portfolio is overdue.   One approach worth exploring is the ..read more

Amazon Web Services (AWS) equips businesses with a myriad of tools and guidance to tackle the ever-growing menace of bot traffic on their websites. Web applications face threats from various vectors like cross-site scripting, SQL injection, path traversal, local file inclusion, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. AWS WAF emerges as a powerful solution, offering meticulously crafted managed rules. These rules act as a shield, providing robust protection against prevalent application vulnerabilities and undesirable web traffic, all without the need for businesses to develop their ..read more

In this blog, we delve deep into the flexible and economical methods available for deploying Hugging Face models on AWS SageMaker. Whether you are operating through the SageMaker Notebook/Studio or your personal laptop, and independent of your internet accessibility status, this guide helps you navigate the most effective paths to deploy your models. Overview of Hugging Face Hugging Face remains the most substantial repository, harboring a wide variety of deep learning model collections, datasets, and libraries. It also hosts benchmarks for these models, an essential feature in the dynamic ..read more

Strengthening AWS Security: The Role of Detective Controls As the adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to rise, ensuring the security of your AWS environment is of utmost importance. In this blog post, we will explore the significance of detective controls in AWS security and how they act as a powerful mechanism for identifying and responding to security incidents. Join us as we dive into the world of AWS detective controls and discover effective strategies for bolstering your platform’s security. Detective | Confidentiality AWS CloudTrail lake: Combined with Key Management ..read more

High-performance, security, resilience, ease of operation, scalability—these are just some of the many advantages that a cloud-based tech stack has to offer, and it’s no wonder that 75% of the world’s enterprises depend on cloud infrastructure for their day-to-day functioning, as well as year-on-year success. How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? Answer: AWS As ironic as it sounds, your cloud set up needs a firm structure, and it needs to be built according to certain standards to keep them future-proof, and secure. How do you ensure that? What are these standards? How much time and re ..read more

In part 1 of the continuous compliance solutions blog, we have learnt that Continuous compliance is the continuous monitoring of IT assets to ensure compliance with regulatory security benchmarks. It aims to shift IT teams away from reactively responding to audit requests and attacks and toward being proactive in their preparation for future threats and data reporting requirements. We also looked at the various AWS native compliance tools and a use case scenario that made use of these tools. In part 2 of this blog, we will learn how to use Amazon Athena for continuous compliance. Querying t ..read more

What is Continuous Compliance? Continuous compliance is the continuous monitoring of IT assets to ensure compliance with regulatory security benchmarks. It continuously scans networks to detect risks in a non-stop approach. Continuous compliance entails creating a culture and strategy within your organisation that constantly evaluates your compliance position to ensure you are meeting industry and regulatory requirements while maintaining secure systems. In short, continuous compliance aims to shift IT teams away from reactively responding to audit requests and attacks and toward being proact ..read more

AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudTrail is a service provided by AWS that allows you to enable governance, compliance, operational, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Events in CloudTrail are actions taken by a user, role, or AWS service. Events include AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs and APIs actions. Amazon Athena Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that allows you to use standard SQL to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage, and you can start analyzi ..read more

AWS CloudTrail AWS CloudTrail is a service provided by AWS that allows you to enable governance, compliance, operational, and risk auditing of your AWS account. Events in CloudTrail are actions taken by a user, role, or AWS service. Events include AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs and APIs actions. Amazon Athena Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that allows you to use standard SQL to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage, and you can start analyzi ..read more