UKFast Blog: aws

AWS encourages all users to follow their Well-Architected Framework. Consisting of five pillars, it’s designed to help customers apply best practices in AWS environments.  The first pillar is Operational Excellence and concerns the ability to run workloads effectively, gain insight into your operations and continuously improve processes to deliver value. Without this pillar, your infrastructure is prone to vulnerabilities.   In this blog, we explore the five design principles of operational excellence and what they mean for your business. Perform operations as code  You can define your entire workload as code in the cloud. This includes your applications and infrastructure, minimising…

Ensuring security and compliance in the cloud is – quite rightly – amongst the biggest concerns of most cloud adopters.   As a public cloud customer, you might think that cloud compliance falls firmly into the remit of your cloud provider. But, in reality, this isn’t…