Articles
Cloud strategy, migrations, and hands-on AWS practices from the easytocloud team.
27 Nov 2020
A while ago AWS introduced Permission Boundaries. You may have seen them when creating an IAM user or role through the console, and ignored them. That's OK, since permission boundaries have no effect if they're not configured. You may also have read about them and learned that your effective IAM permissions are the intersection between…
04 Feb 2020
Do you want to practice once more before you race your model at AWS Summit in Amsterdam? We offer a chance to do so with our DeepRacer (generation 1) on the easytocloud track! In a hangar at Lelystad airport we have a track laid-out that resembles the re:Invent 2018 track with some tweaks. If you…
04 Feb 2020
Internship for HBO/WO IT student.
19 Apr 2017
As an AWS consultant/trainer I travel a lot for my work. When at customers locations, I occasionally want to log in into our sandbox environment. In previous postings, I have shown how we increase security by switching on and off the bastion host with a single (or double) key-press of the AWS IoT button. In…
23 Mar 2017
As a roaming AWS trainer, I work on my AWS infrastructure from many different locations to give demos to the course attendees and prepare stuff in EC2 instances when necessary. When I launch instances, I usually do so in private subnets, not opening the instances to the Internet when not absolutely necessary. To access the instances I…
26 Feb 2017
We all know we'd have to adopt IPV6 one day. So why not today? I thought about this today, when I noticed my provider was so good to give my laptop an IPv6 address. So it starts making sense to get our website on IPv6 too. When even private individuals get IPv6 access, it's just a…
16 Feb 2017
Some fifteen years or so ago, at Open Solution Providers we had the urge to share our knowledge on Unix where we could and in any way, shape or form we could. One of the options to use our consultants at the time, was to book us for a day where customers could ask us anything - Unix related.…
07 Feb 2017
We just moved this site to S3 and cloud front. We have told our customers so often to move their sites to AWS cloudfront and S3 that we deemed it necessary to move our own site as well. In this blogpost we'll tell you a bit about the journey. Basic architecture principles. At easytocloud we like to…
12 Jan 2017
Although at easytocloud we prefer to build serverless solutions wherever we can, we do have some EC2 instances and use a bastion host to access our - predominantly private - EC2 instances. In an earlier posting you could read how we use our EC2 scheduler to stop and start our persistent instances based on the time of the…
24 Nov 2016
Erik van der Voorden IT | Business | Enterprise Architecture | TOGAF 9.1 | Strategy | Consulting | Project Management | Interim | Available Recently I was asked how I, as an Enterprise Architect, am looking at cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services (AWS). How would this fit in my world? This view could help…
22 Nov 2016
By now, you must have heard of the amazing Amazon Echo devices; smart speaker/microphone devices backed up by the Alexa voice service. Now, the cool thing is you can build your own skills quite easily. Register as a developer and start building your custom skill so your Echo reacts to things like "what's up for dinner?" or maybe…
17 Nov 2016
We've been in the preview for QuickSight for a while now- looking forward to precisely this moment where AWS declares it open to the public! Let's see what we can do. The first thing comes to mind is use QuickSight to visualise a sample multi-account detailed billing report: We have a few static websites running entirely…
01 Nov 2016
As a Unix expert, I used to think everything is a file. Now I know better: everything is an API (or should be). AWS took this to the max by even disclosing their prices and specifications through an API. That allows us to write code that presents the EC2 specs and prices in a whole new…
29 Sep 2016
In an attempt to further reduce costs of our EC2 instances, we determined some instances that are running 24/7 unnecessarily. An automated process to schedule stop and start instances would greatly help cutting costs. Of course, the solution itself should not add an extra instance to our infrastructure. The solution has to be an example…
