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    How DevOps Consulting and Managed Services Drive Successful Cloud Migrations

    Aaron Walker | 10 Minute Read

    A combined approach to DevOps consulting and managed services delivers the most successful cloud migrations. Here’s the how and why.

    Maximizing Cloud Efficiency: Strategic Cost Control

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    With the latest advancements in cloud technology and base2's tools, businesses can significantly reduce expenses by intelligently managing how and when environments are utilized

    Introducing the IAM Access Analyser - enhance your AWS security

    Michael Shelton | 2 Minute Read

    Ensuring the security and privacy of your AWS resources is crucial. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) plays a crucial role in overseeing who

    SaaS Technologies' Need for Enhanced Security Measures

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    The recent GitLab vulnerability CVE-2024-25654 serves as a stark reminder of the critical importance of robust security measures in the SaaS

    AWS / Cloud / Tech / AI

    Unlocking Enterprise Knowledge with Amazon Kendra and AI

    Jared Brook | 4 Minute Read

    Organizations often struggle with information silos, making it challenging for employees to access critical knowledge spread across various systems,

    Shared AMI and Snapshot Cleaner - reduce your cloud management costs

    Michael Shelton | 1 Minute Read

    Managing shared resources like AMIs and snapshots between accounts can be complex and costly. The questions of 'What's in use and what isn't?' as

    Streamline AWS Monitoring with Guardian

    Michael Shelton | 2 Minute Read

    Monitoring and alerting are critical to maintaining the health and performance of your AWS infrastructure. However, ensuring that your monitoring

    GuardDuty: Enhancing Security for 500+ base2Services Customers

    Michael Shelton | 2 Minute Read

    Amazon GuardDuty, a powerful threat detection service, is now actively protecting more than 500 base2Services customer accounts. Previously,

    Automating Infrastructure Deployment with Bearse

    Michael Shelton | 3 Minute Read

    Bearse is an innovative internal tool developed by base2Services to deploy and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across multiple AWS organisations

    Enhancing AWS Lambda Development with AmazonQ in VSCode

    Lewis Shobbrook | 4 Minute Read

    AWS Lambda is a popular choice for building scalable serverless applications. Managing both infrastructure and application code can at times become

    Optimize Cloud Costs with Intelligent Resource Management: Introducing the Stop-Start Tool

    Michael Shelton | 3 Minute Read

    Efficient resource management in a Cloud Environment like AWS is crucial for maintaining costs. Many organizations face the challenge of

    Streamlining Authentication with Cognito: A Game-Changer for Load Balancers

    Michael Shelton | 2 Minute Read

    We have combined the benefits of AWS Cognito in conjunction with Application Load Balancers to innovate the management of development environments.

    Rethinking Venture Capital: Exploring Advanced Funding Alternatives for Tech Startups

    Arthur Marinis | 5 Minute Read

    Special thanks to the StartUp Therapy Podcast Episode #262. This episode gave me good insights and reminded me of the problems startups face when

    The Unlocked Digital Back Door: Your Cloud Security and Cyber Security Exposure

    Arthur Marinis | 3 Minute Read

    In an era where data is as precious as gold, the security of digital information and infrastructure forms the bedrock of any successful company. Yet,

    Streamline Your Data Management for Non-Production with Washery: A Tool for Amazon RDS

    Michael Shelton | 2 Minute Read

    Managing and securing database information across different environments is not just crucial—it's a requirement.

    AWS DevOps Overview and Essential Tools for Web App Development

    Arthur Marinis | 4 Minute Read

    DevOps, a blend of 'development' and 'operations', is a methodology that integrates software development and IT operations to shorten the development

    Enhancing DevOps Efficiency: New Account Health Monitoring Feature Released

    Michael Shelton | 2 Minute Read

    In our commitment to continuously enhance the security and operational efficiency of customer's cloud environments, we're excited to unveil the

    Maximizing Cloud Efficiency: Strategic Cost Control

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    Migrating infrastructure to major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has

    Leveraging AWS CloudFormation GitSync for Streamlined Deployments

    Aaron Walker | 3 Minute Read

    We have recently started using AWS CloudFormation GitSync to refine some of our cloud deployment processes as it offers a streamlined, cost-effective

    Achieving SOC 2 Compliance with DevOps Pipelines

    Arthur Marinis | 5 Minute Read

    For modern SaaS organizations, security isn't a destination, it's a journey. Planning this journey is very much like sailing, you plan your route,

    SaaS / AWS

    Utilizing AWS Organizations for your multi-account SaaS architecture

    Aaron Walker | 6 Minute Read

    In the previous blog post of this six-part series on taking your SaaS product global, we discussed the many robust architecture options available on

    SaaS / AWS

    Globalize your SaaS product with 5 AWS architectural patterns

    Aaron Walker | 10 Minute Read

    If you’re looking to take your SaaS product global using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and want to guarantee that it has the best scalability, compliance

    SaaS / AWS

    4 Key Challenges of taking your SaaS product global – Part 4: Performance

    Aaron Walker | 5 Minute Read

    When taking a SaaS product global, every organization faces a large set of challenges they must overcome in order to deliver a high-quality product

    SaaS / AWS

    4 Key Challenges of taking your SaaS product global – Part 3: Scaling

    Aaron Walker | 5 Minute Read

    When taking your SaaS product global, there are a host of considerations your organization should take into account. In the last posts of our

    Cloud Security Consulting: Why you need a DevOps Mindset

    Aaron Walker | 10 Minute Read

    For too long, cloud security was considered an afterthought or a separate task when operating in or migrating to the cloud. But cloud security should

    4 Key Challenges of Taking Your SaaS Product Global – Part 2: Security

    Aaron Walker | 6 Minute Read

    If you’re looking to take your SaaS product to the next level and make it global, there are a few challenges that every organization must face and

    4 Key Challenges of Taking your SaaS Product Global – Part 1: Compliance

    Aaron Walker | 6 Minute Read

    When looking at taking the reach of your SaaS product global, there are a few main challenges that every organization must overcome for successful

    How DevOps Consulting and Managed Services Drive Successful Cloud Migrations

    Aaron Walker | 10 Minute Read

    Cloud computing has been one of the enduring success stories of the 21st-century tech boom. Companies of all sizes and across all industry verticals

    Platform Engineering - Empowering Innovation through DevOps and AWS

    John Passakos | 2 Minute Read

    With digital transformation becoming the norm, modern organizations are constantly evolving to keep pace with the rapid changes in technology. In

    Cloud-Native Explained – Transformation and Cloud-Native Technologies

    John Passakos | 2 Minute Read

    As businesses around the world continue to embrace digital transformation, there is a growing need for organizations to move away from traditional IT

    How to deploy a Quarkus Lambda Application using Lambda Containers

    Aaron Walker | 6 Minute Read

    This post was originally published on my personal blog

    The Guide to SaaS Tool Management in your business

    Arthur Marinis | 3 Minute Read

    Software as a service (SaaS) has completely changed the way that we work today. With so many software options readily available and delivered via the

    How outsourcing could be the difference for your SaaS company

    Arthur Marinis | 4 Minute Read

    With the continued strong growth in the SaaS (Software as a Service) sector, and Gartner predicting global SaaS revenues to hit US$85 Billion by the

    Are outsourced managed services presenting a security risk to your business?

    Arthur Marinis | 3 Minute Read

    The last few years saw unprecedented changes to the global regulation and legislation of data security. Increases to the Payment Card Industry (PCI)

    Make your pipeline match your needs - The hard questions to ask before automating your development pipeline

    Jared Brook | 4 Minute Read

    DevOps, automation, and continuous deployment are hot topics in software development right now. Most companies that write and release software are

    AWS / Tech

    Using Cfhighlander to create reusable and modular AWS CloudFormation templates

    Angus Vine | 2 Minute Read

    I recently co-hosted a developer workshop at the Melbourne AWS Programming & Tools Meetup that I wanted to share with anybody who wants to learn how

    PCI DSS Compliance on AWS - Get 71 requirements covered out-of-the-box

    Jared Brook | 12 Minute Read

    If your business handles credit card transactions and is running, or planning to run, on AWS, then you are likely aware of the various data security

    Don't hire just the one person to do your DevOps

    Arthur Marinis | 4 Minute Read

    This article comes from a presentation at Amazon Web Services. The presentation resonated with many of the people in the audience

    The case for CI/CD - Why every company needs an automated pipeline to production

    Arthur Marinis | 3 Minute Read

    DevOps is the new buzzword in software development, especially for web applications delivered as a service. However, for companies interested in

    How base2Services Slashes the Compliance Burden for standards like PCI, HIPAA and SOX

    Aaron Walker | 2 Minute Read

    At base2Services, we’ve worked with dozens of companies to establish and streamline cloud services so that their infrastructure runs as efficiently

    How to bridge the gap between developers and the cloud with an outsourced DevOps team

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    The simplification of technologies, the abundance of choice and the ease of getting started make cloud technologies really easy to move to. In

    How do you decide when and where to use serverless architecture?

    Aaron Walker | 3 Minute Read

    The hype, conferences, frameworks and tools springing up around serverless is happening at lightning speed, rivalling the excitement around

    How to Start and Stop instances on AWS automatically

    Nikola Tosic | 4 Minute Read

    Experimenting in development, not Production. Moving your infrastructure to one of the mainstream cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services or

    What is serverless technology?

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    As a relatively new approach, there are multiple definitions of the term serverless technology. Blogs and forums are full of discussions about if

    Running Docker containers from the CLI backed by AWS

    Christophe Delcourt | 4 Minute Read

    Preface This article exists because Docker for Mac is not yet mature and this provides a way to run docker containers in AWS, but be able to work

    Automate the build of serverless to AWS Lambda with Docker and Jenkins

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    In the wake of doing things faster with serverless, the serverless.com project and the benefits you get from running code in Lambda (when it makes

    How to build native Docker containers for Windows

    Aaron Walker | 30 Second Read

    Docker containers for Native Windows platforms is something we have waited for for a long time.

    Becoming Agile - The 5-Step DevOps Strategy for Success in the Cloud

    Arthur Marinis | 4 Minute Read

    The fact that DevOps and cloud computing are closely linked, is well-understood by those in the know. If you're an organisation that builds

    What DevOps & Continuous Delivery can do for your business

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    Many people group DevOps and Continuous Delivery under the same hat, and think of them as essentially the same thing. However, this is not the case.

    5 Ways to Get More Out of Cloud Computing

    Arthur Marinis | 3 Minute Read

    So you've moved your organisation's computing to the cloud and the future looks bright.

    High Employee Turnover in DevOps teams - How to Insure Your Projects and Keep Things on Track

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    Today keeping your employees long term, is becoming increasing difficult to achieve. The same loyalty to the company that was felt in years gone by

    How Automation Delivers Cost Savings for Your Organisation in More Ways Than One

    Arthur Marinis | 3 Minute Read

    Are you struggling to monitor your cloud costs? If so, you’re not alone. With most AWS services your bills are far from straightforward and it’s near

    Containers, Continuous Operations and Getting to Zero Downtime

    Arthur Marinis | 3 Minute Read

    If you are yet to discover the benefits container technology can bring to your business, it’s time you started taking notice.

    Why You're Building the Cloud the Wrong Way

    Arthur Marinis | 1 Minute Read

    It's sad but true: in today's world of cloud architecture, many are putting the IT cart before the horse: their business.

    An old integration problem is new again

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    Over the past 20 years, people have heard the buzz words EAI, ESB and SOA. Although most companies really did not implement any of these very well,

    Is your IT disaster ready?

    Arthur Marinis | 2 Minute Read

    With all the disasters of recent, 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami causing widespread disruption in Japan, the floods in Queensland disrupting