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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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CHECK EXPIRED SSL CERTIFICATES
What it does: Identifies expired / soon to expire SSL certificates This bot identifies SSL certificates which are set to expire and/or have already expired. When this occurs it can present end-users accessing web-based applications with browser warnings and errors...
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AWS re:invent 2016: What’s new in the cloud?
Amazon Web Services held its fifth annual AWS re:invent conference in Las Vegas. This year’s event was not only packed with attendees and vendors, but it was also chockfull of news and announcements. The public cloud provider released dozens of new features and...
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Solving the 10 AWS security blunders automatically with bots
Recently, Fahmida Y. Rashid wrote a great piece on InfoWorld, titled “10 AWS Security Blunders and how to avoid them.” While not an exhaustive list, it is a very useful guide towards a security-centric approach to using cloud computing platforms. These are extremely...
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Bot of the Week: STALE SNAPSHOT AUDIT
What it does: Identify snapshots which are older than a defined threshold of daysThis bot looks for snapshots of compute volumes such as AWS’s Elastic Block Storage service which are older than a defined set of days such as 30. The value can be changed to accommodate...
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Bot of the Week: CLOUDS WITHOUT API AUDITING SERVICES
What it does: Identifies accounts with API auditing services such as AWS CloudTrail inactive/disabled across all regions. This bot inspects all configured cloud accounts for the presence of API Auditing services such as AWS CloudTrail across all regions. Having this...
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