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DivvyCloud responds to latest AWS feature with new security rule description bot
On August 31, AWS announced its new ability to add descriptions to security group rules. Previously, descriptive text was only available for identifying security groups. The challenge with this limitation was being able to quickly recognize the purpose of the security...
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The Time Has Come: Multi-Cloud is a Smart Approach for IT Modernization
In this recent Cloud Technology Partners podcast, The Next 5 Years Will Have More Digital Innovation Than the Last 50, cloud computing expert David Linthicum talks to Mike Bainbridge, former Chief Technologist of Rackspace about the role of the cloud in IT...
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Delete Exposed Snapshots Before Sensitive Data Loss…and Media Headlines Ensue!
Bot of the Week: Exposed Public Snapshots [To learn more about this Bot, read this blog post by Thomas Martin] Automatically delete any snapshot exposed to the public as soon as it’s detected. Any time a new snapshot is identified or an existing snapshot is modified,...
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Your Amazon EBS Snapshots and RDS Data may be leaking sensitive data to the public… And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Fix it permanently!
A recently published article outlined the careless behaviors of users that is allowing sensitive company data contained in EBS snapshots and RDS services to be leaked into public domain. AWS has released new functionality to “see” and be notified...
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Stop Overspending in the Cloud: Maximizing Cloud Utilization
Cloud spending continues to rise as enterprises increasingly look for ways to optimize their IT infrastructure. According to Gartner Group, more than $1 trillion in IT spending will, directly or indirectly, be affected by the shift to cloud during the next five years....
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Eyes are Always Bigger Than Your Stomach in the Cloud: Underutilized Instances Bot
Bot of the Week: Underutilized Instance Bot Identifies instances that have either been running for a long time, or have very low capacity utilization...contributing to ever-growing monthly cloud bills. Why do I care: The cloud provides nearly infinite resources...
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The Future Looks Good for Google in a Multi-Cloud World
There is no doubt that the cloud is becoming the technology infrastructure of the future. Market research firm Gartner projects that by 2020, cloud computing will be a $383 billion market (that’s damn big). The highest growth will come from cloud-based, software...
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Media and Entertainment Companies Flock to the Cloud
Over the past year and a half, there has been widespread cloud adoption among enterprises and many people in the technology industry are claiming that 2017 is the year of the “enterprise cloud.” According to IDG’s 2016 Enterprise Cloud Computing Survey,...
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Bad Idea: Leaving the Keys to Your Cloud Castle Lying Around!
Bot of the Week: S3 Bucket Permissions This bot continuously monitors and identifies storage containers such as AWS S3 buckets which have read, write or delete permissions open to the world. Why Do I Care? Amazon Web Services S3 Buckets are storage containers in the...
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Don’t lose track of your instances, tag them.
Bot of the Week: Tagging Audit Bot This bot inspects cloud resources to validate that they are tagged with appropriate key/value pairs (e.g., “Environment: Production”). The policy can be applied as a global policy, or fine-tuned to accommodate for different...
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Instances with Failed Status Checks
What it does: matches instances that fail the system/reachability status checks This bot identifies compute instances which fail instance/system reachability. When failure occurs this means that the system is not accessible over the Internet and likely is running...
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SCHEDULED INSTANCES BOT
facebooktwitterlinkedinyoutube What it does: Schedules automatic starts/stops for cloud resources to save money The Scheduled Instance Bot provides the ability to configure daily stop/start schedules for compute infrastructure. It’s goal is to drive down monthly...
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