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Amazon ECS now includes integrated service discovery. This makes it possible for an ECS service to automatically register itself with a predictable and friendly DNS name in Amazon Route 53. As your services scale up or down in response to load or container health, the Route 53 hosted zone is kept up to date, allowing […]
The Amazon DynamoDB team is back with another useful feature hot on the heels of encryption at rest. At AWS re:Invent 2017 we launched global tables and on-demand backup and restore of your DynamoDB tables and today we’re launching continuous backups with point-in-time recovery (PITR). You can enable continuous backups with a single click in […]
If you need to move a large collection of files from an on-premises or in-cloud file system to Amazon Elastic File System, this tool is for you. Simple, single-threaded command line tools such as cp and rsync predate the cloud and cannot deliver the throughput required to move massive amounts of data from place to […]
As a follow-up to our earlier work to provide longer IDs for a small set of essential EC2 resources, we are now doing the same for the remaining EC2 resources, with a migration deadline of July 2018. You can opt-in on a per-user, per-region, per-type basis and verify that your code, regular expressions, database schemas, […]
It’s been a long time without posting a new article so here goes a new issue I found with vCloud Director 9.0. Background VMware Cloud stack was upgraded recently to latest version vCloud Director 9.0 build number 9.0.0.6679579. All upgrades were completed without issues. My vCloud Director is attached to 2 vCenter Servers running v6.0U3 […]
This week we had the opportunity to attend Nutanix ANZ Technology bootcamp. The session covered the following topics: – Web-scale Architecture and Concepts – Nutanix Models and Use Cases – Cluster Architecture and Configuration – Nutanix Deployment Process – Disaster Recovery – Cluster Expansion and Upgrades – Nutanix Alerts, Notifications, Dial Home and Support. These […]