Posted November 16, 2020 - Updated November 16, 2020
AWS CloudWatch Agent comes installed on Amazon Linux 2 AMI and other AMIs. However, you may run into older AMIs or custom AMIs that don’t include the CloudWatch Agent. If you need to install, uninstall, or reinstall CloudWatch Agent on…
Posted August 24, 2020 - Updated August 24, 2020
Amazon Web Services offers a plethora of services that easily customize an environment while remaining cost-effective for a business. Usually, the tricky part is piecing together the different services to form a fully functioning system. In this blog post, I…
Posted May 11, 2020 - Updated August 25, 2020
I am delighted to announce that Mike DeFrancesco has joined the DevOps Gorilla team as our very first Cloud Specialist. Mike will provide premium support for our clients in AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Back in 2018, I decided I…
Posted February 12, 2019 - Updated February 12, 2019
A good friend of mine just started a new startup gig. He’ll be their company’s “ops-focused” developer (they aren’t at the size yet to staff a full Engineering Operations team of any flavor). It’s a great opportunity for growth albeit…
Posted June 17, 2018 - Updated June 17, 2018
Heroku is a fast, simple way to deploy web applications. With the Heroku Getting Started guide, you can get an application deployed within minutes. However, sometimes what makes Heroku simple also makes it difficult to customize the deployment when there’s…
Posted May 9, 2018 - Updated May 8, 2018
Please excuse the week hiatus. I was travelled to lovely Washington D.C. last week. I’m back now and ready to rock and roll.
Here’s the latest news in Amazon Web Services this week…
CI/CD Developments (AWS Code Pipeline/Build)
It…
Posted May 8, 2018 - Updated May 8, 2018
Just a quick announcement regarding blog content for the past few weeks.
Things have been especially busy between working with some great clients, writing for other DevOps blogs, personal travel, and conferences (DevOpsDays Rockies was a blast BTW!). I’ve only…
Posted April 17, 2018 - Updated April 16, 2018
It was a slower week of announcements following the San Francisco summit. But, there still a few interesting, new things all the same. Here’s the latest and greatest…
AWS AppSync: GraphQL as a Service
What is GraphQL?
GraphQL is a…
Posted April 10, 2018 - Updated April 9, 2018
Here’s my latest commentary on the last week in Amazon Web Services announcements…
zomg. New Shiny Things.
Last week, Amazon Web Services had their annual San Francisco summit. Along with this year’s summit, there were lots of new service announcements…
Posted April 3, 2018 - Updated April 3, 2018
Here’s your weekly breakdown of all things AWS…and lot’s of stuff this week ranging from new pricing tiers to new Alexa for Business features.
AWS Web Application Firewall Available in US East (Ohio)
Good news for anyone with their cloud…