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AWS ECS vs. EKS: Breaking Down the Pros and Cons

A comparison of pros and cons of AWS ECS vs. EKS for choosing the right container management solution in the AWS Cloud.

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StormIT Achieves the AWS Advanced Tier Partnership with AWS

We are proud to announce that AWS recognized StormIT as an Advanced Tier Partner.

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AWS Well-Architected Tool: How it Helps with the Architecture Review

Learn how AWS’s Well-Architected Tool is directly linked to AWS’s best practices, some benefits of using it, and how to get started with it.

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AWS Well-Architected Framework: Understanding the Six Pillars of Successful Architectures

Learn about the AWS Well-Architected framework and we're going to dive deeper into each of the Well-Architected pillars.

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BAUER MEDIA GROUP - Integration Platform Deployment in AWS Cloud

To integrate Salesforce and legacy systems StormIT designed the solution that leverages AWS Cloud and built the Integration layer.

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Srovnejto.cz - Breaking the Legacy Monolith into Serverless Microservices in AWS Cloud

The StormIT team helps Srovnejto.cz with the creation of the AWS Cloud infrastructure with serverless services.

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StormIT Achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for AWS WAF

StormIT is excited to announce that we have received AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) Service Delivery designation.

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AWS High Availability Architecture: Learn How to Create it!

Learn some basics about AWS high availability(HA) infrastructure, how HA is calculated and what it means.

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Does Putting CloudFront in Front of API Gateway Make Sense?

Learn about API Gateway endpoint types and the difference between Edge-optimized API gateway and API Gateway with CloudFront distribution.

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Amazon Cloudfront Origin Access Control (OAC): All you Need to Know

Learn what CloudFront origin access control (OAC) is, how it works, new features, how to migrate from OAI and how to set it up in AWS Management Console.

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What is Lamdba@Edge and How is it Different from AWS Lambda?

Learn about Lambda@Edge function use cases, benefits, how to deploy it, and its pricing.

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StormIT Achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for AWS Lambda

The StormIT team has achieved AWS Service Delivery Program designation for AWS Lambda. To achieve this designation we passed a rigorous technical validation. Learn more...

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StormIT Achieves AWS Service Delivery Designation for Amazon CloudFront

We have exciting news to share about our company! We are thrilled to be designated as an AWS Service Delivery Partner for Amazon CloudFront.

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What are AWS-managed Prefix Lists and How do you Use Them?

Learn what managed prefix lists are, how they can help protect your AWS infrastructure, and how they work with CloudFront.

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What is AWS SCP (Service Control Policy) and How does it Help with Permissions?

Learn what SCPs are, elements of them and walk through some simple examples, and what the difference is between SCPs and IAM policies.

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AWS Organizations: How to Manage Multiple AWS Accounts?

Learn what AWS Organizations is, its components and benefits, as well as the difference between AWS IAM and AWS Organizations.

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Amazon API Gateway Pricing: Six Tips to Control the Cost

Learn about AWS’s API Gateway pricing, the free tier, and how to optimize its costs.

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A Beginner's Guide to API Gateway: What is it and Why is it Important?

Explore what you need to know about a managed API Gateway, its security, benefits, and Amazon API Gateway basics.

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AWS Lambda Pricing: Cost Optimization Approaches Guide

Learn about the AWS Lambda pricing model and some things you need to keep in mind and how to optimize the cost of Lambda.

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Origin Shield: How does it Help to Protect Your Origin?

Learn what Origin Shield is, its use cases, benefits, and how it improves the performance of a CloudFront distribution.

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Amazon Route 53 Basics and Routing Policies

Learn what Route 53 is, how it works, the benefits of using it, and routing policies that are the main function of this AWS DNS service.

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Creating a CloudFront Distribution for Amazon EC2 and ALB

CloudFront serves dynamic content more quickly, learn why and how you can use it with ALB and EC2 behind it to speed access to dynamic content.

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Amazon Cloudfront Origin Access Identity (OAI): What it is and How to Use it?

Learn about CloudFront OAI, which addresses the need to restrict public access to S3 buckets. With OAI it’s simpler to monitor who has access to data.

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Amazon Route 53 Pricing: How Does it Work?

Learn about the main elements of Amazon Route 53 DNS costs and which parts of this AWS service are free.

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Amazon Route 53: Health Checks and DNS Failover

Learn about AWS Route 53 health-checking features and how to only route traffic to healthy AWS resources.

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AWS Data Transfer Pricing: How to Reduce Your Costs?

Learn about the different types of data transfers that may occur on your AWS bills and how to reduce their costs.

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What is Amazon Macie & How does it Protect Your Sensitive Data?

Macie can play a part in making you aware of your data. In this blog post, we look at what Amazon Macie is, how to set it up and more.

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Comparison: AWS Direct Connect vs. VPN

Learn more about the differences between AWS VPN and AWS Direct Connect, so you can decide on which service is useful to you.

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Amazon Inspector: How to Get The Most Benefit Out of it

Learn what Amazon Inspector is, how it works, its benefits, and also how to install the Amazon Inspector agent.

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Introduction to AWS Direct Connect

Let's look deeper into what AWS Direct Connect is, its benefits, its locations, how it works, and how you can set it up.

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What is AWS Security Hub? Definition, Benefits & Pricing

Learn how you can use AWS Security Hub and gain insight into priority security alerts and compliance status in your AWS account.

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AWS Auto Scaling: Everything That You Need to Know

This blog post will introduce what AWS Auto Scaling is, how it works, its advantages and disadvantages, and more.

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Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering: How it Helps to Optimize Storage Costs

S3 Intelligent-Tiering is designed to optimize storage costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective tier.

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Scalability in Cloud Computing: Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling

Look deeper into horizontal and vertical scaling and also into AWS scalability and which services you can use.

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AWS Cost Optimization: Best Practices for Reducing AWS Bill

AWS' extensive service and pricing options provide the flexibility to effectively manage costs. Learn more...

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A Comparison of Private Cloud Security & Public Cloud Security

There are more than just a few differences between private and public cloud security. This blog post takes a look at both...

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What is Amazon GuardDuty? Definition, Pricing & Comparison

Amazon GuardDuty uses intelligent and continuous threat detection of your AWS accounts. Learn more...

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What is an Origin Server & How to Reduce its Load?

Learn: What is an origin server. Difference between an origin and edge server and how to reduce server load with Amazon CloudFront CDN

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AWS Instance Scheduler: Everything you Need to Know and Tutorial

What is the AWS Instance Scheduler? Deployment of the AWS Instance Scheduler solution. Learn more

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What is a Cache Hit Ratio and How do you Calculate it?

What is a cache? What is the cache hit ratio? Answer these questions by reading this article...

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What is RTT (Round-Trip Time) and How to Reduce it?

Round-trip time (RTT) meaning, what it is and how to measure and calculate it. Using Amazon CloudFront CDN to reduce RTT. Learn more...

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What is AWS Shield and How Does it Work?

AWS Shield is an AWS service for DDoS protection against all known infrastructure (layer 3 and 4) attacks. Learn more...

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The 6 R’s: AWS Migration Strategies

What is an application migration strategy? Comparison of AWS 6 R’s strategies. With our team at StormIT, migrations to AWS are accomplished quickly...

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Cloud Migration Strategy With StormIT: How to Do it Right

When you migrate to the AWS Cloud with StormIT, you get the support you need for a successful migration.

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What is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Why Use it?

What is the difference between a firewall and a web application firewall (WAF) and what are the benefits of WAF. Learn more...

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Live Streaming CDN: Guide for Broadcasters

Learn about the benefits of using a CDN for live streaming. Read a guide to choosing a video CDN.

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8 AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies and Tools

Learn about reducing your cloud spending and how to optimize and right-size your AWS Cloud infrastructure.

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Cloud DDoS Protection: How to Mitigate All Risks

Read more about DDoS attack mitigation. How to get proper AWS services for the protection of your servers against DDoS attacks?

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8 Best AWS Cloud Migration Tools to Overcome Migration Challenges

Learn what the challenges are to overcome when migrating to AWS. Which tools for migration to AWS can be used to simplify this process? Learn more...

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Amazon CloudFront Pricing: How to Approach it and Save Money?

How can CloudFront cost be reduced? 💰 Save up to 60% on your CDN cost with StormIT optimized pricing. Learn how

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What Is a CDN: Definition, Core Benefits & Use Cases

What is a CDN? What are the CDN benefits your business should consider? What are the pros and cons of using a Content Delivery Network?

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Setup an Amazon CloudFront distribution with SSL, custom domain and S3

Create an S3 bucket and set it up for static website hosting and set up a CloudFront distribution, and secure the connection via SSL. Learn more...

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InScope Choses StormIT and AWS for Deployment of their AML Solution

InScope chose to migrate its core technology platform to Amazon Web Services, a cloud leader in Infrastructure & Platform Services

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Times of Malta Seamlessly Migrates to AWS Cloud with StormIT

Times of Malta chose to migrate its core technology platform to Amazon Web Services.

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BRID TV - Enterprise-level Video Monetization

BridTV is a fast-growing technology company and enterprise-level video monetization solution.

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Windy - The Extraordinary Tool for Weather Forecast Visualization

StormIT helps Windy optimize their Amazon CloudFront CDN costs to accommodate for the rapid growth.

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