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Multi-Account Governance in AWS: Beyond Organizations and SCPs Introduction If you’ve worked with AWS for a while, you already know this story: things usually start with one account. Life is simple. Then teams grow, projects multiply, compliance knocks at the door—and suddenly you’re staring at dozens (or even hundreds) of AWS accounts. That’s when governance […]
Introduction Look, if you’re running stuff across multiple AWS accounts – dev, staging, prod, maybe even separate accounts because your security team said so – you already know this pain. Something breaks, alarms start screaming, and suddenly you’re bouncing between six different accounts trying to figure out what the hell happened. What I’m going to […]
Artificial Intelligence has managed to move from research labs to boardroom conversations. Today, every technology leader is under pressure to “do AI.” Customers want personalized experiences, competitors are embedding AI into their offerings, and investors expect a clear AI strategy in every roadmap. But here’s the hard truth: the majority of AI projects fail to […]
Introduction EC2 Image Builder is an AWS service that automates creating, updating, and deploying your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). EC2 Image Builder creates a pipeline for Linux or Windows Server images for use with Amazon EC2. The pipeline manages all stages, including image creation, maintenance, validation, sharing, and deployment. Image Builder is free to use, […]
Every modern application today has one thing in common: it relies on speed. Users don’t wait around, systems can’t tolerate bottlenecks, and a couple hundred milliseconds can make the difference between a smooth experience and an abandoned page. And at the center of that performance equation, more often than not, is an in-memory data store. […]
Introduction HashiCorp Packer is one of the most popular open-source machine image builders. It helps engineers define infrastructure as code, installing software and layering security updates into AWS Machine Images, or AMIs. Packer is focused on image building. It has no capabilities around testing, scheduling, AWS notifications, or distribution. On the other hand, AWS EC2 […]
Introduction When companies move to the cloud, most think the hardest part is the migration itself. Truth is — that’s just the start. Over the past few years, we’ve worked with startups, large-scale platforms, and everything in between. What have we learned? Cloud without solid DevOps is like buying a sports car but never changing […]
Introduction Management of sensitive information such as API keys, credentials and configuration secrets are an important part of developing safe and reliable Skylands applications. In Google Cloud Ecosystem, Secret Manager provides a centralized and safe way to save, access and manage these secrets.When running applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including Secret Manager guarantees that […]
Introduction In today’s enterprise IT world, container orchestration often feels like magic. It takes a bunch of servers and makes them behave like a single, well-oiled machine. But what happens when you don’t have the cloud at all? That was exactly the challenge we faced: building a production-grade Kubernetes platform inside Samsung’s fully air-gapped, on-premises […]