Author: Cameron Maxwell So. The disks got shipped off to AWS after having been formatted and having the SIGNATURE files put on them. Each disk was sent as a separate job (hence the RAID-1) I received an email from AWS for each job stating “In the processing of XXXXX, we discovered that your device does [...]
Read moreArthur Marinis, Managing Principal @ base2Services Before I dive into this, let me explain a little about one of my passions. I love business process improvement, and more importantly, love being involved in ways to make a business work better. This does not always mean cheaper, but it should always mean better value and better [...]
Read moreAuthor: Cameron Maxwell A common problem when using ELB, or any proxy for that matter, is that the source IP for all traffic is the load balancer itself. AWS ELB support the X-Forwarded-For protocol. This means that the original IP is now sent in an http header to your application. This still requires you to [...]
Read moreAuthor: Arthur Marinis For the past few years, cloud security has been a great concern on people’s and companies minds and the fear of not only losing data, but having your data “stolen” by criminal organisations has really held back the progress of cloud world wide. But what if you can put some basic steps [...]
Read moreAuthor: Cameron Maxwell I’m currently looking at how to use AWS import export in practice for a new data product. The saying goes something like – “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Station Wagon full of tapes”. As it’s the first time we’ve used the service, we are going to be doing two simultaneous, identical [...]
Read moreFinally, after 20000 hours of development and countless hours of management, movworks is launched http://www.movworks.com
Read moreAuthor: Arthur Marinis With all the disasters of recent, 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami causing widespread disruption in Japan, the floods in Queensland disrupting business operations, the floods in regional Victoria and Bushfires at Kinglake and surrounding suburbs has left many companies re-thinking the strategy on business continuity beyond the traditional IT data centres and [...]
Read moreAuthor: Cameron Maxwell s3cmd is one of the most heavily used AWS tools after Amazon’s own command-line toolsets. It is a good utility that allows to to interact with S3 from the command line and synchronise local files to S3. The biggest drawback for s3cmd is its speed for synchronising many small files. The average [...]
Read moreAuthor: Cameron Maxwell I went to the monthly AWS User Group Meeting for Melbourne last night and gave a talk about some tips and learnings we’ve made over the last few months. The topics covered were: Encrypting EBS Volumes Making EIPs stick AMI’s vs CloudFormation Amazon representatives were there as usual, its great to see [...]
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