AWS Technical Architect
Within CDW’s Amazon Web Services practice, we maintain a number of AWS accounts for managing our day-to-day business activities. One of the accounts is the “Sandbox Training” account that provides an environment for our CDW coworkers to learn and experiment with a multitude AWS services. Learn about CDW’s AWS Practice. Periodically, we go to the…
Cloud governance is a framework that guides how end users make use of cloud services by defining and creating policies to control costs, minimize security risks, improve efficiency and accelerate deployment. It's imperative to have good cloud governance because it's a foundational element to your cloud practice that provides the ability to scale and be…
[sayit]I get many questions about Amazon Web Services (AWS). Here is a sampling: What should be the first step when starting the cloud journey? Given the many services currently available in the AWS cloud, how does an organization select the important ones for initiating the process? What sort of connectivity is required between the on-premises…
[sayit]There’s a growing awareness of the value of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — the practice of provisioning and deploying infrastructure using DevOps processes and best practices — to decrease IT costs and management burdens. At the same time, more and more organizations have begun to recognize and take advantage of the value offered by cloud…
[sayit] Due to various factors such as cost-efficiency, flexibility and availability, organizations are trying to leverage the infrastructure from various cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google and IBM. Within the CDW cloud practice, we are finding that organizations are taking different paths on their cloud journeys. Some organizations are in an early experimental stage…
In part 1 and part 2 of my blog series on Amazon Web Services storage, I talked about various available storage options in AWS. Since cost is one of the drivers in moving to the cloud, in this blog, I will focus on the cost factors and some typical use cases of the different storage…
In my previous blog post, I provided a basic explanation of storage technology, delving into the differences between block and object storage. Both of these approaches play into the AWS service offerings. This blog post will cover the details of the storage services offered by AWS. AWS Data Storage Service Offerings AWS currently offers the…
Cloud providers are offering a number of innovations for deploying and developing applications. Suitable combinations of these offerings allow you to build highly performant, scalable and cost-optimized solutions in the cloud. Due to its criticality, I am going to explore many storage options available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for fulfilling different use cases. Since…
