Understanding AWS WAFv2 to Fortify your Web Applications
In today's online infrastructure, web application security is paramount. Reputations that take years to build, can be wiped out overnight at the
Reflections on AWS re:Invent 2024: Balancing Innovation and Community Connections
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas, and what an incredible experience it was! This year’s event felt
Enhance AWS Notifications with Autonomous Guardian Stacks in Slack
Maintaining organised notifications and alerts is essential for staying ahead of tasks and issues. The challenge becomes more pronounced when dealing
Introducing the IAM Access Analyser - enhance your AWS security
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
The recent GitLab vulnerability CVE-2024-25654 serves as a stark reminder of the critical importance of robust security measures in the SaaS
Unlocking Enterprise Knowledge with Amazon Kendra and AI
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
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
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
Amazon GuardDuty, a powerful threat detection service, is now actively protecting more than 500 base2Services customer accounts. Previously,
Automating Infrastructure Deployment with Bearse
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
Utilizing AWS Organizations for your multi-account SaaS architecture
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
Globalize your SaaS product with 5 AWS architectural patterns
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
4 Key Challenges of taking your SaaS product global – Part 4: Performance
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
4 Key Challenges of taking your SaaS product global – Part 3: Scaling
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This post was originally published on my personal blog
The Guide to SaaS Tool Management in your business
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
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?
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
DevOps, automation, and continuous deployment are hot topics in software development right now. Most companies that write and release software are
Using Cfhighlander to create reusable and modular AWS CloudFormation templates
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
With all the disasters of recent, 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami causing widespread disruption in Japan, the floods in Queensland disrupting