COVID-19 completely changed the world and affected all areas of the business. Cloud platforms also don’t wait on the sidelines and are making confident strides towards combating the 21st-century pandemic. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing division of the online multibillion-dollar retail giant, joins the global efforts to fight COVID-19 by making contributions on several fronts. In which areas?

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If you’ve ever thought about investing in an enterprise-wide hybrid cloud, then you know its numerous advantages. First and utmost, it allows consolidating your workloads without cutting off resources or compromising application performance. This being said, many organizations still get cold feet when deciding to move to a hybrid cloud. What is behind these fears and why is it worth deploying a hybrid cloud?

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In this article we will have a look at the process of setting up a connection to AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu Server over internet (read “outside of Amazon cloud”/ “from anywhere”). More specifically, we will be looking at required settings and on how to initialize connection to Ubuntu EC2 instance from Windows client machine.

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I’ve recently started to explore MySQL as a potential backend option for my custom web application pet project. Earlier, I’ve already wrote an article about installing AMP stack on Ubuntu Server, and as a logical next step I decided to explore PaaS option which allows you to get MySQL as a service from Amazon as potentially better option for large scale projects or for those who focusing on building “serverless” architectures on AWS platform. In this little article I will cover basics of Amazon RDS MySQL offering and explain how to create your first MySQL instance and connect to it.

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In this blog post I’m going to talk about AWS DataSync – tool which was introduced by Amazon at re:Invent 2018 to simplify moving your data between on-premises and AWS cloud. Core reason to introduce this tool was the fact that increased move to the cloud of critical workloads drove the need for move of increasingly large datasets into the cloud along with these workloads. AWS DataSync focuses on online data transfer scenarios which include such use cases as migration of active application data, recurring transfers for data processing, and disaster recovery.

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