knowledge shared from working in the cloud
Introduction One constant topic that comes up whenever discussing cloud costs with my counterparts in Finance is the notion of forecasting. Finance people love to forecast and it’s a big part of their job. However, forecasting AWS spend is notoriously difficult for several reasons: The fact that cloud costs are consumption based and thus highly…
Introduction In my first post on the CUDOS solution, I showed you how you can implement implement SSO access to CUDOS using AWS Single Sign-on service. Leveraging this capability you can enable users to sign in to QuickSight using their corporate credentials and avoid having to give them full access to the AWS console. Now…
Part 1 – Deployment and SSO Integration At my day job I recently led a project to move away from CloudHealth for cost reporting and implement some new tools to replace the functionality of CloudHealth. CloudHealth is a great tool but my company no longer wanted to pay a percentage of our spend just to…
In my last post, I showed you how to setup an automated, enterprise wide deployment of AWS Config. That post assumed you were starting from scratch with no existing setup of AWS Config in your AWS accounts. However, what if you have already enabled AWS Config in one or more of your AWS accounts, with…
AWS Config – powerful tool but a deployment headache Seasoned users of AWS will be familiar with the AWS Config service. Config is a powerful tool that lets you continuously monitor and record the configuration of AWS resources in your account. Using Config, you can easily see changes to configuration of a given AWS resource…
Welcome to the Cloudy Advice, my personal blog for sharing technical tidbits and learnings from my work in managing and deploying public cloud infrastructure. I have over 25 years working in IT Infrastructure, starting as a Network Administrator long ago and over the years have managed servers, storage, messaging platforms, backup systems…the whole gamut of…