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Migrating to Amazon EKS vs. Vanilla Kubernetes
Contributors Travis Langhals, Principal Architect and Migration Practice Lead Stephen Sadowski, Head of Cloud Engineering and DevOps/Modernization Practice Lead Kubernetes has become the most popular container orchestration platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. AWS’s distribution, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), is their managed Kubernetes service offering. In this blog post, we will compare the advantages and disadvantages of[...]
The Benefits of Migrating to Amazon Web Services
Contributors Travis Langhals, Principal Architect Stephen Sadowski, Head of Cloud Engineering In the last decade, cloud computing has become a major part of the IT landscape - and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most popular and reliable providers of cloud computing services, constantly leading Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure. Let’s review some of the various benefits[...]
Astronomer and Uturn Partner to Drive Innovation and Better Business Outcomes
Astronomer, the leading commercial developer of Apache Airflow and Uturn, a cloud first systems integrator, announced a partnership that will allow customers of both companies to benefit from Astronomer’s next-generation applications of Apache Airflow technology and Uturn’s expertise designing and optimizing applications and infrastructure on the AWS cloud.
AWS Innovate – Data Edition
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AWS Quick Tips: Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, and NAT Instances
Networking in AWS is important to understand in order to keep sensitive servers and applications secured while still maintaining Internet connectivity. It can be quite different from traditional networks, and because there are similarly named pieces it can be difficult remember the differences and know how to properly use them. Three commonly confused services are Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, and[...]
Uturn Achieves AWS DevOps Competency
July 23, 2020 – Uturn Data Solutions, a Chicago-based data and cloud technology consulting firm in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), announced today that it has achieved AWS DevOps Competency status. This designation recognizes that Uturn provides proven technology and deep expertise in helping customers implement continuous integration and continuous delivery practices and helping them automate infrastructure[...]
Uturn’s Cloud Migration Solution Improves Workload Visibility and Cost Efficiency for Amount
Spinning off Amount from Avant required a re-architecting of systems. The companies needed to separate their cloud infrastructure in order to enforce compliance requirements. Amount wanted to take advantage of the situation to build out a modern and enhanced cloud environment with appropriate governance and security.
How a Growing Medical-Financical Solutions Company Saved $250,000 by Migrating to AWS
Rising Medical Solutions was approaching a fork in the road: stay with its Chicago on-premise data center housing 25 TB of data—predominantly comprising enterprise SQL servers and .NET web services and batch applications—or make the move to AWS in the cloud?
RHEL on AWS: Red Hat Cloud Access vs AWS Red Hat On-demand
Our Vice President of Professional Services, Stephen Sadowski, takes a hard look at the cost factors surrounding bring your own license with Red Hat on AWS. This article intends to address whether or not cost is the driving factor for making a decision about bringing Red Hat system entitlements (licenses) to the cloud and how to decide whether to use[...]
Building an AWS VPC with Terraform
In David’s previous article, he outlined some general requirements and best practices around designing your first AWS VPC. This article continues what was started in order to put the design into practice. When building a multi-account AWS environment, it is important to make sure all the AWS VPCs are built the same. If this is not the case it will[...]