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!

AWS Anomaly Detection; Machine Learning for us Ops guys! I’m an old fashioned Ops guy at heart. I came up from a company who had a big, loud, cold datacentre, whiring and flashing all day and all night. That kind of thing still does it for me too. If you’ve got a steady workload and […]

What is cloud? …asking for a friend

What is cloud? …asking for a friend I have happily been running cloud consultancy business for the past couple of years now, and my clients are proving that there is a space in the market for a trusted advisor to help with getting cloud right.  But what is this cloud everyone goes on about? How […]

Why AWS Consultancy?

A blog posting around the reasons for starting Beaty Consultancy, the friendly, affordable AWS consultancy services specialists.

Tag your assets, please

Tag your assets, please When a new client asks me to check out their AWS estate and make recommendations for improvement, one of the most common is that tags should be implemented. It’s something that most of us don’t give enough thought to when we’re busy deploying exciting new projects in our cloud environments, but […]