Comparing DevOps and MLOps: Unlocking Collaboration and Efficiency
Introduction In the dynamic world of software development, two powerful approaches have emerged to streamline processes and enhance collaboration: DevOps and MLOps. While they share similar goals, each has its unique focus and applications. Let’s explore these methodologies, their histories, and how they revolutionize software and machine learning operations. History and Evolution DevOps emerged in […]
Control Tower Guardrails overview (Preventive, Detective and Proactive)
A Guardrail (or Control) is a high-level rule that provides ongoing governance for your overall AWS environment. It’s expressed in plain language. AWS Control Tower implements preventive, detective, and proactive controls that help you govern your resources and monitor compliance across groups of AWS accounts. A control applies to an entire organizational unit (OU), and […]
GitOps for AWS Cloudformation
What is GitOps GitOps is an operational framework that uses DevOps best practices for application development, such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to infrastructure automation. In the GitOps approach, we use a Git repository as the single source of truth for infrastructure definitions. Git is an open-source version control system […]
Moving to AWS Graviton. Why and How?
AWS continuously improves cloud services and introduces new hardware for processing power, but customers usually do not rush to move to newer instance generations. AWS documents state that newer generations are more powerful and cheaper, but what is the difference in numbers? In this post, I researched and compared four generations of the instance type […]
Implementing “for each” logic in the CloudFormation template for dynamic input parameters.
Problem statement In some cases, CloudFormation’s capabilities may be limited compared with those of other IaC tools, such as Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, etc. For example, in the previous post, we looked at implementing a “sleep” timeout using the Custom CloudFormation resource. Here, we look at the case where we must create a Route 53 Resolver […]
Using AWS IAM Identity Center for SSO to access shared services (OpenVPN, OpenSearch, Grafana, ArgoCD)
Automat-it, as an AWS Well-Architected Partner, gains expertise in building high-quality solutions, implementing best practices, checking the state of workloads, and making improvements to fit business and customer needs. Security Pillar is the most popular for our reviews, and one of the first questions we ask is, “How do you manage identities and permissions for […]
Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework for AWS Organization
According to the Shared Responsibility Model AWS is responsible for “Management of the Cloud”, while a customer is responsible for Security and Operations in the Cloud + attention to costs as AWS provides virtually unlimited capacity on the “pay as you go” model. There are native AWS tools like AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Cost Explorer, […]
Simulating failures in Amazon Aurora MySQL / PostgreSQL
Clouds allow us to design highly-available and fault-tolerant systems quite easily. Moreover, we can use managed services (for example, databases) to reduce the operational overhead and focus on our business logic. Design and implementation are not enough; we should also test how our system tolerates failures and continuously improves. In this post, we will look […]
Determining data sentiment in the Amazon Aurora database using Amazon Comprehend
Problem statement Collecting customer feedback is essential for every business. But collecting is not enough. We must understand and react to them to improve our product and grow the business. Processing feedback manually was a common thing earlier, and many companies still do it nowadays, but we live in the era of machine learning, and […]
Monitoring costs of containerized workloads in EKS using OpenCost and AWS Managed Prometheus / Grafana
Problem statement Using clouds is convenient and has many advantages, like allocating as much workload as you need immediately, deploying globally pretty fast, focusing on business instead of maintaining a data center, etc. But on the other hand, you need to be really careful about costs, understand how cloud providers charge you, and how to […]
