AWS Storage Gateway Launches Hardware Appliance
AWS Storage Gateway is a service that allows you to link your on-site applications to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Glacier. You can have this service...
View ArticleAmazon EC2 Released High Memory Instances Up to 12 TB
Amazon EC2 has announced they have released high memory instances with 6, 9, and 12 TB of RAM. These allow you to use SAP HANA services on a far bigger scale or use it to create production systems...
View ArticleAmazon Lightsail Now with Managed Databases
Amazon Lightsail is designed to be an easy to use cloud server. Lightsail allows you to get into AWS by providing you a preconfigured Linux or Windows application stacks, letting you select an instance...
View ArticleAmazon RDS Offers Updates to Console and More
Amazon RDS has received new updates to both its look and performance. You may check them out below. Amazon RDS Console – the console is given an updated new look where users can see all RDS resources,...
View ArticleCloud Month in Review – October 2018
AWS continually enhances its services for its clients. Check out the updates made last month. AWS Contingencies for Disasters In the face of more powerful typhoons and other natural disasters, it’s...
View ArticleAWS Meetup Slides November
Hi everyone! A big thank you to our sponsors Palo Alto Networks & Cloudhealth for making another great meetup possible. Session 1: AWS Secrets Manager PolarSevens ‘Secret Manager’ Kishore kicked...
View ArticleAudit finds 30% reduction in monthly AWS bill
Audits are an extremely boring topic to talk about. Saving thousands every month is a little more interesting. On a recent Discovery Workshop with one of our clients who will remain nameless we found...
View ArticleContainer Security
Security is a major area of focus here at PolarSeven, we aim to enable and automate security patterns crucial to the success of applications deployment. Since Docker has matured, the need to secure...
View ArticleHow to manage devops requirements
DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly...
View ArticleALB’s before Containers or Containers before ALB’s
Application Load Balancers (ALB’s) aim to move much of the functionality currently offered by web servers like apache and nginx into the cloud. This means certificates, http to https redirects,...
View ArticleCongratulations to Jesus Rodriquez APN Ambassador
PolarSeven is an Advanced Partner of AWS and our work in running the AWS Meetup in Sydney and providing speakers at AWS events has led AWS to recognize one of our PolarSeven engineers. Jesus Rodriguez...
View ArticleExtending corporate and government software services – Workspaces Backed By...
Here at PolarSeven we have worked with various corporate and government customers to get services that once ran on desktops into the AWS Cloud so more internal and external workers can utilize the...
View ArticleWhy go Serverless
Applications are traditionally deployed on servers, the time spent managing those servers is time you could have spent on building new business features and improving the quality of your applications....
View ArticleThe path to your very own devops team
PolarSeven understands that most of our customers will eventually outgrow us. We are okay with that. With only 10% of the all the servers running on the cloud there is still a lot more work to do to...
View ArticleAWS User Group #01 – 6th February 2019
Hi Everyone! Now we’ve settled into 2019, we are recommencing our monthly catchup where we talk all things AWS. Please note contrary to the previous email, this months meetup will still be held at...
View ArticleAWS User Group #01 – Thanks for coming + Slidedeck!
Hi all, A big thank you to everyone who came along to the first AWS User Group of the year. Guest speakers Dario Nascimento from the CBA & Peter Whitfield, the CTO of Cashwerkz filled the room,...
View ArticleWhen not to use containers – configuration options
On a recent client project we were implementing Single Sign On using Ping and an LDAP server. An LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server is used to find details about a user by using a...
View ArticleWhat is a devops agency good for?
Some of our customers see PolarSeven as a DevSecOps and Networking experts which are skills we definitely have. There is probably a misunderstanding about how hard building great infrastructure really...
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