This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
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AWS Diagram Creator
There are so many reasons why you should accurately document your AWS cloud environments with Network Topology Diagrams. They visually portray how your network is constructed, what is running where and how resources are grouped and connected.
This is a major time saver when explaining your network to new engineers, consultants or other internal stakeholders.
Topics: aws cloud Consulting Documentation security vpc diagrams
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Organisational and Design Tips for Google Cloud
Defining Your Organisation
Google Cloud recommend your network resources should be organized hierarchically to enable you to manage access control and permissions across your organization. Grouping together all the network resources that each team or project requires makes it easier to permit or deny access according to which business unit each team member belongs.
Topics: cloud Documentation gcp vpc DevOps
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 9th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Google Cloud Diagrams
There is no question that keeping accurate Google Cloud Diagrams is essential for well managed and easily communicated GCP network infrastructure.
Topics: Documentation gcp visualization diagrams
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AWS Security
Security is possibly the most important consideration for any organization storing data or hosting applications on public cloud infrastructure.
Topics: aws cloud security diagnose Version History vpc diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 26th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS VPC Diagram Generator
When you are working with AWS VPC infrastructure, there are many many reasons why you can benefit from accurate automatically generated infrastructure diagrams.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation visualization vpc
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How to Reduce AWS S3 Storage Costs
S3 Optimization
Some organisations struggle to contain their S3 Storage costs through a combination of failures around planning and monitoring. This could be due to the complete absence or incomplete application of both important steps.
Topics: aws cloud diagnose
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 19th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Seven Cloud Computing Trends to Watch in 2021
Continuing on a stellar trajectory and partly enhanced by the pandemic, the adoption of cloud infrastructure and services is expected to top $120Bn in 2021 increasing by well over 35% according to Forrester Research. Welcome to the new normal.
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 12th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 5th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 26th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Managing Cloud Engineers? Here's 7 Reasons Why You Should Consider Hava
When you are responsible for the delivery and maintenance of critical or complex applications built on cloud infrastructure, the chances are you are relying on multiple in house engineers or teams of engineers, devops and external consultants to keep your network and applications operating at peak performance for your end users.
Topics: aws cloud Consulting security azure gcp visualization diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 19th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Diagram
There are numerous reasons why you would want to accurately document your AWS cloud environments with an AWS Diagram.
Topics: aws cloud Consulting Documentation security vpc diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 12th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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DevOps vs Agile
Software development can be a long and complex process. The more you can map out and plan, the greater chance you have of success.
Topics: aws cloud Consulting azure Version History diagrams kubernetes DevOps
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 5th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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GCP Architecture Diagrams
There is no question that keeping accurate GCP architecture diagrams is essential for well managed and easily communicated network infrastructure.
Topics: Documentation gcp visualization diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Jan 22nd 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Azure Network Diagrams
When you are working with Microsoft Azure, there is no doubt you appreciate the value and necessity of great network topology diagrams. Diagrams provide a visual cue for better communication and understanding of your cloud infrastructure at all levels of your organisation, from management down to freshly onboarded engineers and consultants.
Topics: cloud azure visualization Version History diagrams kubernetes
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Jan 15th 2021]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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How To Choose A Database on AWS
When moving your data and applications to AWS or developing a solution from scratch, you are most likely going to be faced with the challenge of selecting the most appropriate of the multitude of database options offered by AWS.
Topics: aws security visualization database
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Dec11th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Dec 4th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Nov 27th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Arcentry Alternative
If you used Arcentry in the past to document your cloud infrastructure, the closure of the service earlier this year probably came as a bit of a shock.
While quite a newcomer having only been established in 2018, the decision to shut the doors at short notice potentially left a lot of people high and dry that were using the service to diagram their cloud infrastructure.
Topics: aws cloud azure gcp diagrams api cloudcraft
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Nov 20th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Well-Architected Framework Pillars
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides guidance on applying best practices in the design, delivery and maintenance of AWS environments.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation visualization
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Nov 13th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Leveraging Tags and Labels for AWS, GCP and Azure Documentation
Tags are an incredibly useful yet often overlooked feature of most cloud computing platforms. Once created they let you manage your infrastructure more effectively by providing the ability to filter resources and perform tasks and actions based on nominated tag values.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation azure gcp visualization diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Nov 6th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Top 20 Uses for Cloud Documentation
No one needs network documentation, until they do.
Topics: aws cloud Consulting Documentation security azure gcp visualization diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 30th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Auto Generate AWS Diagrams
The best and most perfect cloud architecture is next to useless if no one in your organisation understands it. What maybe even worse is if everyone misunderstands it, which is why we believe accurate documentation is an essential step in network architecture design and implementation.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 23rd 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Lucidchart Cloud Insights Alternative
In the world of flow charts and mind maps, Lucidchart has gained a strong following and undoubtedly has proven itself a worthy adversary to the likes of Visio, draw.io and Xmind.
Topics: aws cloud azure gcp vpc api lucidchart
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 16th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Diagram Tools
If you have worked with AWS for any length of time, you will understand the importance of using effective AWS diagram tools.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation visualization Version History diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 9th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Oct 2nd 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 25th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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How to generate hybrid cloud or multi vpc diagrams
With the availability of multiple cloud platforms each with their own strengths and cost advantages, it is not uncommon for DevOps engineers and cloud architects to take advantage of resources from multiple cloud vendors when designing a cloud based application.
Topics: aws Documentation azure gcp Version History vpc
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 11th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Sep 4th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Cloudcraft Alternative
If you have been working with AWS cloud infrastructure for any length of time, you will probably used or at least heard of Cloudcraft.
Topics: aws cloud azure gcp diagrams api cloudcraft
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 28th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Hava Releases New Diagram Layout Controls
Hava cloud infrastructure diagrams now have more flexibility and control so you can adjust the layout canvas to better suit your requirements.
Topics: Features aws cloud Documentation azure gcp visualization news Version History vpc diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 21st 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Hava announces new automated cloud diagram application UI
We're happy to announce general availability of the new hava.io user interface. The result of many many hours of performance tweaks and design improvements this implementation of the cleaner UI has delivered improved navigation, more screen area for your diagrams so you can focus on the things that matter to you.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation azure diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 14th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Compliance Reporting
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Compliance Reporting as an addition to our AWS diagram tools. Hava's new reporting module centred around the AWS trusted advisor / well architected methodology is available on selected subscription plans and self hosted enterprise solutions.
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Aug 7th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Diagram Software
There are countless reasons why you would want to accurately document your AWS environments. Knowing exactly what is running based on the actual resources configured in your AWS environments is probably the number one reason to use automated AWS Diagram Software over manually drawn diagrams.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation security visualization vpc diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [July 31st 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Cloud Diagram API for AWS, Azure, and GCP
One of the advantages of utilising Hava for your cloud infrastructure diagramming and documentation is the availability of a robust and flexible API.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation azure gcp api
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In Cloud Computing This Week [July 24th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [July 17th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Editing Hava cloud diagrams using draw.io
Out of the box, Hava creates logically laid out network topology diagrams derived from the cloud accounts you connect.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation azure gcp visualization
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In Cloud Computing This Week [July 10th 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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The Ultimate AWS Diagram solution
In the often hectic DevOps world there would be few people that do not appreciate the necessity for well crafted and accurate cloud network topology diagrams.
Topics: aws Documentation visualization Version History diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [July 3rd 2020]
This week's roundup of all the cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [June 26th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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What is PCI Compliance?
What is PCI Compliance?
If your systems or applications process electronic payments or store client payment and transaction data, then PCI compliance should be a high priority for your business.
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In Cloud Computing This Week [June 19th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [June 12th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Cattle vs Pets - DevOps Explained
Base Image source: AWS Marketplace https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/solutions/devops#
Topics: aws cloud cloud formation security azure gcp visualization vpc diagrams
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In Cloud Computing This Week [June 5th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 29th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Network Diagrams
If you have spent any time working with cloud computing infrastructure, you'll already appreciate the value of accurate and up to date network topology documentation.
Topics: aws cloud
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 22nd 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Expanded Search Enables Easy Creation of Custom Cloud Diagrams
Hava is happy to announce the release of a significant enhancement to the search functions used to help you quickly locate cloud resources and create custom infrastructure diagrams.
Topics: Features aws cloud Documentation azure gcp vpc
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 15th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 8th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [May 1st 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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Best free AWS GCP and Azure Training in 2020
There's no question that having industry certifications under your belt is one of the best ways to advance your cloud computing career. It's also a great way to help you break into the industry if you are contemplating a career change or looking to show value to a potential employer.
Topics: aws cloud azure gcp visualization Version History training
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 24th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 17th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Diagram Generator
There's no dev team on the planet that wouldn't benefit from accurate infrastructure diagrams.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation visualization vpc
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Apr 3rd 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 27th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 20th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 13th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Mar 6th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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50 Essential Cloud Computing Podcasts to Listen to in 2020
If you are looking for something interesting to fill your earbuds in 2020, here's a list of 50 podcasts worth a listen.
Mostly focused on Cloud Platforms, DevOps and Security there is sure to be something in there that resonates with you.
Topics: aws cloud security azure gcp
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 28th 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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How An Automated Cloud Architecture Diagram Can Save The Day!
A Cloud Architecture Diagram paints a thousand words.
We’ve all heard the cliche “A picture paints a thousand words”, but there is real value in using images to explain complex technical information.
Topics: aws cloud cloud formation Documentation security azure gcp visualization
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In Cloud Computing This Week [Feb 21st 2020]
This week's roundup of notable cloud news.
Topics: aws azure gcp news
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AWS Icon Set 2019
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have launched a re-designed set of diagram icons, the first version release was for AWS re:invent 2018, with the official public release on the 2nd of February 2019. Hava now supports diagrams using the new icon set, so you can discover, diagram, diagnose, and document your environments straight from the source of truth with a familiar style.
Topics: Features aws
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Cloudcraft vs. Hava
Cloudcraft is known for their isometric AWS diagrams and often one of the tools used to depict the layout of your cloud environments, along with Lucidchart and Draw.io. We all need to start somewhere with our network diagrams, whether it's on a whiteboard, in a drawing tool or in a drag and drop builder.
These diagramming tools are great for the design stage, however as the cloud-native architectures of today continue to evolve, the idea of continually updating diagrams to reflect what's currently running becomes a more impossible task.
Topics: Features
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Cloud infrastructure spend reached US$20b in Q2 2018
Canalys estimates cloud infrastructure services spend reached US$20 billion in Q2 2018. The top three cloud providers account for 57% market share.
Topics: aws cloud azure
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Hava's AWS Security Views
AWS security groups act as a virtual firewall for your EC2 instances to control inbound and outbound traffic.
"Security groups act at the instance level, not the subnet level. Therefore, each instance in a subnet in your VPC could be assigned to a different set of security groups." - AWS Documentation
Trawling through your VPC flow logs helps provide visibility into your network traffic to detect anomalous traffic and provides insights, however, it still comes with its own risk of error.
Generating a visual diagram from the source of truth with automated layouts to display your network infrastructure as it is right now can eliminate the potential risk of human error.
Hava offers several ways to assist with diagnosing security within your network.
Topics: aws cloud security diagnose
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Still manually updating your network diagrams?
There is no doubt that as we continue to move further into cloud networking and infrastructure our environments are evolving daily. This rapid pace of change is failing to keep up with the expectation that your team knows "how it works" and "what it looks like". Keeping network diagrams up to date is often the last thing on most engineers mind, until the time you need them which in some cases is too late.
Manual creation and updating of diagrams are tedious and time-consuming and not that effective with continuous change. These days we have the ability to automate the process of generating and drawing a diagram, getting the information straight from the source of truth.
Topics: aws cloud Documentation
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5 Tips for Onboarding Cloud Consultants
So you’ve got approval to hire a consultant on a six-month contract to fast track your project. You’ve found the perfect consultancy with proven success in everything you need to implement. Your Scope of Work (SOW) has been signed off on and your consultant starts in a week. Hoorah!
You want the project to be a resounding success, right?
Onboarding your cloud consultant properly is the most critical thing to you can do to maximize your ROI. They have limited time to deliver you results, not being prepared means your consultant sits idle, and that costs you money which can significant with the increased level of cloud spend in the IT landscape.
Topics: cloud Consulting Documentation
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Design for failure lessons learnt from the Sydney AWS outage
Sydney’s wild weather brought down an availability zone in AWS’s AP-SOUTHEAST-2 Region on Sunday night.
Websites went down, customer service calls went up, twitter went nuts, engineers scrambled to find work arounds and management started asking “Why?”.
If your website crashed, you know by now that it’s probably because your application wasn’t designed for region failure.
One outage should not be reason for you to start thinking that the cloud isn’t right for you, or that you should move service providers. But it should make you revisit your architecture.
Failure in cloud services is inevitable regardless of your provider. Outages happen so you must design for failure. Your actual infrastructure availability is irrelevant to your application availability. 100% uptime should be achievable even when your cloud provider has an outage regardless of its size.
Topics: aws design for failure aws outage
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Hava + AWS Summit Sydney 2016
AWS Summit extended to two days for the first time this year and the turn out was amazing! Summit really is the place to be for anyone interested in
Amazon Web Services and cloud infrastructure in general.
Team Hava was given a space at the AWS Startup Hub and the response to Hava was HUGE! So far beyond our expectations. We got to talk to so many great people with various levels of experience with the cloud - all loving the visibility of their AWS infrastructure Hava will give them. Many couldn't believe we're only one year old!
Topics: cloud warrior aws cloud formation blackbirdvc
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Meet Team Hava at the AWS Sydney Summit
Come see us at the AWS Startup Pavilion
AWS has invited Hava to be part of the AWS Startup Pavilion on Day 1 of the AWS Sydney Summit. Having attended AWS Summits and conferences for years, it’s exciting to be on the other side demoing Hava.
If you're registered for Summit, we'll be at the Startup Pavilion on Wednesday so come over and say hello. We’d love to step you through Hava and show you how we can save you time and headaches visualizing your AWS cloud infrastructure clearly.
Topics: Investment aws
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Hava Completes Seed Round Funding
How confident are you with your cloud infrastructure?
How are you currently creating your cloud diagrams? Are you spending quality time with your whiteboard hand drawing them? Or are you trolling through your AWS console, then clicking and dragging in a drawing tool?
Imagine being able to extract real-time diagrams of your actual AWS environments. That would be pretty cool, right?
Well that’s exactly what Hava does!
Topics: Investment aws cloud blackbirdvc
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Are you monitoring everything?
With DevOps now firmly placed in the enterprise sights, we are seeing that automation visibility is becoming critical. Having the view of the state of the delivery pipeline ensures there is an increased awareness of the system as a whole. The question that often arises is “Yes, we need monitoring, but what do we monitor?” There are numbers components of your environments that you should be monitoring, and this blog explores what they are, how to track changes in your cloud environment and why it’s important to monitor them.
