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AWS Snowcone: A Small, Lightweight, Rugged, Secure Edge Computing, Edge Storage, and Data Transfer Device
Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge,...
Optimizing a multimillion-dollar cloud bill
In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the...
MSP360 – Evolving Cloud Backup with AWS for Over a Decade
Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his team of five engineers had built a product called CloudBerryExplorer for Amazon S3. I mentioned his product in my CloudFront Management Tool Roundup and in several subsequent...
Beginner’s Guide: How To Use Mailchimp (Build Your Email List)
The number of email marketing software options out there can make your head spin. Which one should you go with? Why Use Mailchimp: Mailchimp is one of the most famous and used email marketing software in the world. Founded in 2001 by Ben Chestnut and Dan...
Google Workspace: Alternatives to changing your primary domain
When you sign up for Google Workspace or Cloud Identity, you provide a domain name that becomes the primary domain associated with your account. You and your users get usernames and email addresses at this domain. Do I really need a new primary domain?...
An Introduction to Terraform
This is Part 2 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In Part 1, we explained why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation. In this post, we’re going to introduce the basics of...