Monthly Archives: May 2020

AWS Surprises – One Datacentre Is Not Enough

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Alastair

Most on-premises IT infrastructure designs treat a datacentre as a highly available platform, having an entire datacentre off-line is a disaster. It is a bit of a surprise then that AWS recommends we treat a datacentre as a failure domain … Continue reading →

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AWS Surprises – Choose a configuration from a menu

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Alastair

On the surface, there is no surprise here, AWS offers a list of services, and you order what you want from the list. But the devil is always in the detail, or the operational consequence. This actual AWS surprise came … Continue reading →

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