Have you encountered a Reddit discussion along these lines: — Have you encountered a Reddit discussion along these lines: Question: How do I implement disaster recovery for EC2 instances? Me: Replicate EC2 volume snapshots across regions and test regularly; BTW we have a product that does this. Commenter: No marketing here, I’ll just write a script. Easy. I appreciate…

This post is for fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, whether you can recite the entire trilogy by heart or, like me… — This post is for fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, whether you can recite the entire trilogy by heart or, like me, simply appreciate Douglas Adams’ clever British humor and keen social commentary. Wittingly or not he also offered sage business advice.

We don’t customarily post during the holiday season but this is one of the simplest yet most important articles to date. — We don’t customarily post during the holiday season but this is one of the simplest yet most important articles to date. As I’m sure you are aware, critical vulnerabilities were found in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021–44228, CVE-2021–45046, CVE-2021–4104), perhaps the most widely used logging facility for enterprise software. What is our…

Testing your disaster recovery protection once a year might be typical for manual disaster recovery processes. But would you buy software… —

We are often asked why our product focuses on disaster recovery across regions and does not also manage traditional local backup. Three… — We are often asked why our product focuses on disaster recovery across regions and does not also manage traditional local backup. Three words: AWS Lifecycle Manager. For small and medium businesses with modest cloud infrastructure and requirements, straightforward hourly and daily snapshots should suffice to protect mission-critical instances against corruption…

Serverless computing customarily means that you do not provision a dedicated cloud virtual server to run your software but instead the… — Serverless computing customarily means that you do not provision a dedicated cloud virtual server to run your software but instead the cloud periodically provisions one temporarily to run your code. However there is another important definition of serverless: no web server.

The transition to serverless for our backup product forced us to jettison much of our custom SaaS infrastructure in favor of native AWS… — The transition to serverless for our backup product forced us to jettison much of our custom SaaS infrastructure in favor of native AWS services. The snapshot scheduler (cron) became CloudWatch Events; log4j was removed in favor of CloudWatch Logs; heck, we even discarded our entire JavaScript UI in favor of…

You want to run a cloud-based CRM system for multiple users worldwide in AWS cloud, you would plainly deploy an EC2 instance from an AMI in… — You want to run a cloud-based CRM system for multiple users worldwide in AWS cloud, you would plainly deploy an EC2 instance from an AMI in AWS Marketplace. Though you are billed 24/7 for the running instance, it is also probably busy 24/7. Conversely you want to forward SNS messages…

In my last article I described how our new serverless-based disaster recovery automation solution for AWS can be summarized with a few… — In my last article I described how our new serverless-based disaster recovery automation solution for AWS can be summarized with a few videos each lasting just a few seconds. Now if you have just a few minutes (and a few pennies) you can try it out yourself in your own…