How Beaty Consultancy helped a motor-trade entrepreneur
My Car Inspections What Jim Parkes from www.mycarinspections.co.uk doesn’t know about cars probably isn’t worth knowing. He has built up…
How Beaty Consultancy Helped the Words Unwasted Book Shop
Books There’s just something about physical books isn’t there. The smell, the feel of the pages, the tangible progress through…
Remote Working Using The AWS Cloud
AWSTransformationPosted on 26/02/2021We’re all used to working remotely now, right? Well, kind of, but how efficiently are you and your…
Apple Macs in AWS – CI/CD or bust
AWSCost OptimisationPosted on 10/12/2020Apple Macs in a cloud environment are nothing new. MacStadium have been doing it for years now,…
Amazon Sidewalk Is Sharing My WiFi! Oh, Wait, No It Isn’t.
SecurityPosted on 30/11/2020Many-a-wave was made in the technology press this week by Amazon. It seems our beloved Alexa devices are…
Avoiding Cloud Vendor Lock-In
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 04/11/2020At Beaty Consultancy, we speak to new clients all the time, which is awesome! People build really…
AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect
AWSPosted on 21/10/2020I write a lot of blog posts about a lot of different cloud subjects – but why should…
Backing Up Your Managed Cloud Services
Cloud BasicsPosted on 14/10/2020Managed cloud services give you everything, don’t they? Wicked availability, speed, simplicity, and backups built right in. …
Stop Your Cloud Environment Breaking Down
Cloud BasicsPosted on 07/10/2020Is it possible to Stop Your Cloud Environment Breaking Down? Yes, of course it is. For that,…
Layered Security In The Cloud
Cloud BasicsSecurityPosted on 30/09/2020Security isn’t just one thing, it’s lots of little things. It’s software, and standards and processes within…
Encryption Will Save Us All, Won’t It?
Cloud BasicsSecurityPosted on 23/09/2020Everyone talk about encryption these days – whether they understand what it is or not. For more…
What Is A Brute Force Attack?
SecurityPosted on 09/09/2020I bet you wish you could stop reading about all the different ways our cloud platforms can be…
Logfiles And Logging In Your Cloud
Cloud BasicsPosted on 02/09/2020Servers and cloud services are chatty little critters. They like to keep a note of everything they…
How DNS Poisoning Attacks Work
SecurityPosted on 26/08/2020We love to explore the common security threats which are being leveraged against every cloud platform every day. …
Typosquatting – Who Are You Talking To?
SecurityPosted on 19/08/2020Typosquatting is where someone else owns a web address, or domain, that looks just like yours. If your…
Serverless Websites Are Awesome!
AWSPosted on 12/08/2020It’s no secret that we are proper geeks. Cloud geeks specifically, but we do just love any good…
What Is Serverless?
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 05/08/2020We have been writing blog posts about cloud technology for a long time now. Each week, we…
Using The Cloud To Focus On Your Business
Cloud BasicsCost OptimisationPosted on 29/07/2020This blog post was inspired a pal of mine. He’s one of these guys who has…
Documentation Is Not Sexy, But It Is Necessary
TransformationPosted on 22/07/2020Cloud technologies are awesome; it’s the reason Beaty Consultancy exists. We get to work with world-class developers and…
MITM – And Why Your Servers Need Protection
SecurityPosted on 15/07/2020Man In The Middle, or M-I-T-M attacks are nothing new, but they can still be the cause of…
SQL Injection And Why Your Servers Need Protection
SecurityPosted on 08/07/2020We’re continuing our series on specific security concerns and how we protect against them. This week, we’re talking…
What Is DDoS And Why Your Servers Need Protection
SecurityPosted on 01/07/2020I blog about security and hacking all the time. Information security is super interesting to me, but also,…
Beaty Consultancy at the AWS Summit 2020
AWSPosted on 24/06/2020Here at Beaty Consultancy, we’re always keen to get our message to small and medium sized businesses, that…
How Secure Is Secure-Enough?
SecurityPosted on 17/06/2020I’m a security nut. I mean, I write a security-focused technology blog for goodness sake, I’m hardly revealing…
Information In The Information Age
Cloud BasicsPosted on 10/06/2020This morning, I was thinking about what to talk about in this week’s blog post as I…
How Hacking Works
SecurityPosted on 03/06/2020I’m writing this post during the UK Corona virus lockdown in May 2020. All around the world, scientists…
The Right Cloud Tools For The Job
Cloud BasicsPosted on 27/05/2020I’ve been back to the classroom recently. The virtual classroom, for obvious reasons, but I’ve been learning…
What Is Change Management
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 20/05/2020Documentation is boring. But then so is eating your vegetables, and apparently now we’re adults, we shouldn’t…
What Is Infrastructure as Code
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 13/05/2020We spoke about disposable infrastructure last week, and about how we shouldn’t name our servers anymore. The…
What Is Phishing And How To Protect From It
Cloud BasicsSecurityPosted on 06/05/2020We like to cover security basics here at Beaty Consultancy, and Phishing was certainly on our list…
Operational Security From Home
Cloud BasicsSecurityPosted on 29/04/2020There are some scary sounding buzzy buzzwords going on here aren’t there? Well this week, we’re demystifying…
Let’s Learn Stuff While We’re Locked In
Cloud BasicsPosted on 22/04/2020We’re all staying at home, protecting the NHS and saving lives. It’s super important, but it’s tough…
Zoom-bombing and the Park Bench
SecurityPosted on 15/04/2020Zoom is the new darling of the Internet, and with good reason. It allows really simple video conferencing,…
Don’t Give Your Cloud Servers Names
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 08/04/2020My dog is brilliant. He’s a ginger and white collie cross mongrel rescue thing, and he’s such…
Save Money By Using AWS Reserved Instances
AWSCost OptimisationPosted on 31/03/2020Part of the AWS Well Architected Framework is a pillar called Cost Optimisation. It’s a pretty simple…
Managing Your Cloud Resources In Times Of Crisis
AWSAzurePosted on 25/03/2020For context, this post is being written on a beautiful sunny Wednesday afternoon here in Carlisle. It also…
Remote Working Tools
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 18/03/2020I write all our blog posts for Beaty Consultancy. Generally I write them on a Sunday afternoon. …
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
SecurityPosted on 11/03/2020Security experts within an organisation, or even as contractors or advisors, are often though of as the team…
Security Isn’t Sexy
Cloud BasicsSecurityTransformationPosted on 04/03/2020Here at Beaty Consultancy, we love talking about new technology, and helping you to understand it too.…
Understanding Disaster Recovery
Cloud BasicsPosted on 26/02/2020It is easy to think of the cloud as an amazing place, where nothing could ever go…
How The Cloud Works
Cloud BasicsPosted on 19/02/2020This blog post comes from my little brain-box as I was writing another post about Disaster Recovery. …
Open Source Software
Cloud BasicsPosted on 12/02/2020Today, we’re investigating another buzzy buzword you might hear bandied around by techy-types. What is Open Source…
Technical Writing Services
TransformationPosted on 29/01/2020There are a few stings to our cloud-shaped bow here at Beaty Consultancy. Sometimes other cloud services providers…
Securing Access to your Cloud Resources
AWSAzureCloud BasicsSecurityPosted on 24/01/2020We all know about the amazing things we can build in cloud environments – I bang on…
Cloud Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch
AWSCloud BasicsPosted on 22/01/2020This week, we’re looking at one of my favourite products within Amazon Web Services, and that is…
Microservices – The Production Line of Cloud
AWSCloud BasicsPosted on 15/01/2020Today, we’re talking about Microservices – The Production Line of the Cloud! We talked about Containers a…
Internet of Things – IoT – Explained
SecurityPosted on 08/01/2020We love to bust jargot wherever we can, so this week, we’re talking about the Internet of Things…
What is a VPN?
Cloud BasicsSecurityPosted on 18/12/2019Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs are all the rage at the moment. Every other video I watch…
Why Your Servers Need Updates
AWSPatchingSecurityPosted on 11/12/2019We have spoken about software updates before. However with the imminant end of Windows 7 and Windows Server…
Why You Need Good Passwords
SecurityPosted on 04/12/2019In last week’s blog post, we showed you how to check if your online accounts have been compromised. …
Security Precautions as a Managed Service Provider
SecurityPosted on 27/11/2019We talk about security an awful lot here at Beaty Consultancy. We’re a little bit obsessed with it. …
Here’s How To Find Out If Your Data Is At Risk
SecurityPosted on 20/11/2019Most of us are comfortable online nowadays. In fact I’m happier online than I am in a room…
Cloud Consultancy in Cumbria
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 13/11/2019Beaty Consultancy is a proudly Cumbrian brand, based in the great border city of Carlisle. Carlisle changes…
Containers Don’t Need to be Scary
Cloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 06/11/2019We throw around all the buzzwords here at Beaty Consultancy, but we like to give you explinations…
Here’s Why You Need a Web Application Firewall
SecurityPosted on 30/10/2019If you’re reading this, the chances are that you run a web application. What do we mean by…
Solving Problems Using The Cloud
AWSAzureCloud BasicsTransformationPosted on 23/10/2019When people talk about cloud technologies, they talk about the problems they’re sovling using Cloud. But what…
Protect your servers from Ransomeware
PatchingSecurityPosted on 16/10/2019We have spoken about cryptocurrency a couple of times before, so by now we know it’s just another…
Managing your cloud account logins
Cloud BasicsSecurityPosted on 09/10/2019We’ve spoken about what cloud is before, so you already know that you’re using cloud technologies everywhere. …
Protecting your business from Ransomware
SecurityPosted on 01/10/2019First thing’s first – what is Ransomware? Ransomware is when your data is maliciously encrypted, and a ransom…
A day in the life of a cloud consultant
Cloud BasicsPosted on 25/09/2019Our CloudBasics posts are the most popular content on our blog. That’s no surprise to us, since…
Build it (in the cloud) and they will come
AWSAzureCloud BasicsPosted on 18/09/2019A popular mis-quote from Field of Dreams, but in the world of cloud-computing, it often is the…
Why use one cloud database when 7 will do?
This post was prompted by a recent AWS Podcast. If you’ve never listened to it, and you’re as geeky as…
The White Apple Company
The White Apple Company offer a range of online English language learning tools to help bring students and world-class language…
The Best Cloud Technologies for Backup
We all know we should be backing up way more than we do, and we know there are hundreds of…
Encryption in AWS; the Key, the Secret
So you read our recent post about encrypting your EBS storage. You have encrypted all your data in transit, and…
Azure Security Lab: Bug Bounties as a Service?
Beaty Consultancy is regarded within the industry as the guys with the tin hats. We are security nuts. With this…
Cut through the buzzwords to understand cloud
The technology space is chock-full of acronyms, strange units of measurement, and general techno clap-trap. And guess what, when we…
Data data everywhere, but how much to keep?
With almost unlimited amounts of storage available to anyone who wants it, how much should you use? How do you decide what’s worth keeping and where?
Encryption in AWS; let’s do some! Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Let’s look at encrypting EBS volumes in AWS!
AWS Anomaly Detection; Machine Learning for us Ops guys!
Machine learning powering ops monitoring I’m an old fashioned Ops guy at heart. I came up from a company who…
What is cloud? …asking for a friend
all the toys in the toybox I have happily been running cloud consultancy business for the past couple of years…
Why AWS Consultancy?
A blog posting around the reasons for starting Beaty Consultancy, the friendly, affordable AWS consultancy services specialists.
Tag your assets, please
When a new client asks me to check out their AWS estate and make recommendations for improvement, one of the…
Thanks for the downtime
It’s Saturday morning, early. I’m feeling super productive today, so I’ve already walked the dog, put last night’s dishes away,…