Category: Information Technology
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Mastering AWS Backups: DORA Compliance with Robust Backup & Restoration Strategies – Part 4
In Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, I covered the legal basis, backup strategy, policy implementation, locking the recovery points stored in the vault, and applying vault policy to prevent specific actions. In this part, I will dive deeply into two essential compliance-related topics: Legal Holds and Audit Manager. Legal Holds AWS Backup Legal…
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Mastering AWS Backups: DORA Compliance with Robust Backup & Restoration Strategies – Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2, I covered the legal basis, backup strategies, and retention and briefly touched on vaults. In this part, I will cover policy creation in the root or backup delegated account, configuring Vaults & its compliance lock, legal holds, and resource selection. Vaults Configuration To begin with, let’s create three standard…
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My CloudWatch testimonial on AWS website
I was asked to provide a testimonial for CloudWatch due to the level of usage and the way it was architected and used in the organization, and here is where you can see my words: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/customers Screenshot:
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Mastering AWS Backups: DORA Compliance with Robust Backup & Restoration Strategies – Part 2
In Part 1, I emphasized DORA’s requirements and the overall architecture of resource backup within an organization. In this part, I will focus on backup initiation strategies, vaults, retention of the recovery points, and tagging policy. Backup Strategies If the resources in your AWS Organization are managed via code, aka infrastructure as code, you are…
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Mastering AWS Backups: DORA Compliance with Robust Backup & Restoration Strategies – Part 1
When discussing cloud resource backup and restoration, there are many ways to handle them. You may wonder what the best way is! Should you use backup and restoration software that you might be already familiar with from your on-premises data center, like Vaeem? Or should you consider using software built in the age of cloud-native…
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Driving Success with Large-Scale DevSecOps Solutions: A Techie’s Journey
Mastering DevSecOps: Leveraging Business and Technical Acumen Developing and implementing large-scale DevSecOps solutions demands a harmonious blend of business acumen and technical expertise. The primary goal is to integrate security seamlessly into the DevOps process, ensuring that security considerations are embedded throughout the development lifecycle. This holistic approach to security mitigates potential vulnerabilities early in…
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Presented at Financial Services Industry (FSI) Forum Berlin hosted by AWS
Satyajit Ranjeev and I had the pleasure of attending the Amazon Web Services (AWS) FSI Forum in Berlin. The AWS FSI Forum is dedicated to inspiring and connecting the Financial Services community in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. M. Reza and Satyajit took to the stage to share their insights from Solaris’ migration journey to AWS,…
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Configuring AWS Control Tower with AWS SSO and Azure AD
Limitations: AWS SSO Limitations: Azure Active Directory (AAD) Limitations: Control Tower Limitations: Miscellaneous Limitations: Considerations: When configuring AWS Control Tower with AWS SSO and Azure Active Directory (AAD), there are several considerations to keep in mind: Configuration: To configure AWS Control Tower with AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) and Azure Active Directory (AAD), you need to…
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This is how we hit the limit in Amazon EFS
When we architect the application, it is essential to consider the current metrics and monitoring logs to ensure its design is future-proof. But sometimes, we do not have the necessary logs to make the right decisions. In that case, we will let the application run in an architecture that we think seems optimized – using…
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Communication and failure in information flow
Communication is the activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving people information; “an apparent answer to the painful divisions between self and other, private and public, and inner thought and outer word.”. According to the Oxford dictionary, communication means “the activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or giving people…
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How to use EFS to store cx_Oracle, Pandas, and other python packages?
This post focuses on how to use the EFS storage to store large packages and libraries like cx_Oracle, pandas, and pymssql and import the packages in AWS Lambda. Considering the Lambda package size limitation that is inclusive of layers, larger functions packages and libraries must be stored outside the Lambda package. There are some steps…
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Microsoft Teams is NOT your next LMS
In the past eight months, there has been an astonishing number of changes in how learners receive content and learning materials, as well as the communication methods with instructors. During this period, the changes were far more than what we had seen in the past four to five years combined. Considering how fast institutions had…
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Malaysian Health Data Warehouse at the Minister’s Fingertips!
Minister of Health accessing Malaysian health data warehouse using Amazon Alexa to query KPI of hospitals at SNOMED International Kuala Lumpur. This was a PoC Project done in collaboration between APU and MoH to bring the health warehouse to the Alexa assistant. The Alexa back-end was done by my good friend and colleague Mustafa (Bofa).…