Built on Control Tower Mphasis Stelligent is proud to be an AWS Built on Control Tower Partner and a Management and Governance Partner! Find this blog interesting? Make sure you register and join us on Nov 17 for an AWS Control Tower Activation Day. Control Tower and BoCT Overview Cloud transformation is a large undertaking. The setup and Read more…
As Enterprises adopt modern application architectures, they now find they need the capability to deliver hundreds or even thousands of distinct applications while meeting stringent security and compliance requirements. Scaling the capability to deliver software securely requires a new framework for defining, creating, and delivering infrastructure and application code and brings a new set of Read more…
Since AWS re:Invent 2020 was 100% virtual, I got opportunities to consume more content than I typically do at the conference but this came at the cost of missing out on opportunities to meet with new people and those I typically see every year at this time. The nice thing is that more people from Read more…
Many of us know that introducing large batches of changes into production is risky. However, because of complexity and many moving parts, it can also be risky when deploying changes in small batches – without the right techniques. One of the better ways of mitigating deployment risk is by gradually deploying small and frequent changes Read more…
When using serverless on AWS, you do not need to worry about load balancing, auto scaling, operating system management, managing utilization, or underlying hardware failures. All of it is abstracted from you so that you can focus on coding. What’s more, since you only pay for what you use, you can do more experimentation. It Read more…
Deployment Pipelines – Introduction The software “deployment pipeline” has become a common mechanism in the modern enterprise. A deployment pipeline is a sequence of automation that produces or deploys a software artifact. This artifact can take many forms, for example, a programming library, a web application, or even automation to converge infrastructure and security controls. Read more…
One of the biggest challenges with managing usernames, passwords, API keys, and other secrets is balancing the need to make it simple for authorized accounts, databases, and APIs to securely access these secrets while adhering to the principle of least privilege. Simply put, most everyone knows not to store sensitive configuration information in plain text Read more…
As the complexity and scale of our AWS use cases grow, so too does the complexity of monitoring and managing our AWS accounts. Whether these concerns revolve around maintaining corporate compliance objectives, hardening accounts against attackers, or simply controlling cost, the enforcement mechanisms can involve some serious logic. With the advent of AWS Cloudwatch Events Read more…
Many enterprises attempt to drive software development and delivery towards a DevOps mindset. Likewise, organizations struggle with increasing security challenges while adopting these innovative software practices. Embedding security within the deployment lifecycle is non-negotiable. Therefore, integration of security into CI/CD workflows need be done cautiously to meet an ever-evolving technology landscape. DevSecOps is an important Read more…
The AWS QuickStart team open sourced a project they use for automated testing of CloudFormation templates called TaskCat. With TaskCat, you can run automated tests to learn of and fix any errors that arise in your CloudFormation templates. If you have been using CloudFormation for any period of time, you will learn that even if Read more…