In our previous post about the Well-Architected Framework (WAF), we explored its use through the lens of a Well-Architected Review (WAR). In this post, we explore how the WAF can go beyond the bounds of being a pure application architecture assessment to drive a discussion around improved operational insight and…

“Business continuity and IT resilience are a click away with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery.” That’s the marketing line, but as you would expect, in reality there is probably more to the story. As with any Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery solution, there needs to be a great deal of planning, process…

Recently Cevo were engaged to help build an automated machine learning pipeline that created the ability to rapidly and accurately generate predictive models. All aspects of training a model were automated. We refer to this as MLOps. WAIT, WHAT’S MLOPS? MLOps is DevOps applied to machine learning. DevOps is a paradigm that attempts…

The AWS Landing Zone is a great way to provision the foundation for your consumption of AWS, with guardrails and management via infrastructure as code. Further details can be found on the AWS site: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/aws-landing-zone/, or Cevo’s factsheet here. In this blog I’ll walk you through the following three actions…

Thinking back through my experiences with migrations to cloud highlighted just how difficult the whole process has become compared to the migrations I was part of early on in my IT career. Back then, the earliest phase of a migration was introducing server virtualisation into the datacentre, where the economies…

Recently the AWS team announced a new service, AWS ChatBot, that aims to increase the visibility of informational events for delivery teams. The team at Cevo have been working with a ChatBot method of information dissemination for a fair while now through the use of the GitHub project aws-to-slack. …

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. As a remote or office-based worker, you can ‘remote desktop’ into your own Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment and work from wherever, on whatever local device you want. The sweet spot for Amazon WorkSpaces is meeting the need to run a…

Now that we’ve become remote workers by default, it’s no surprise that many teams are turning to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions to provide centralised, managed desktop experiences for day to day applications. …

At Cevo we access the AWS console through a Single Sign On (SSO) connection with our Google Apps identity provider. Further, our access is secured with Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) device tokens. Accessing the AWS console through this method is pretty painless; simply click the SSO link in Google Apps…