Apple Macs in AWS – CI/CD or bust
Apple Macs in AWS – CI/CD or bust Apple Macs in a cloud environment are nothing new. MacStadium have been doing it for years now, and they have offerings as cheap as $59 per month. So why is it such big news when AWS announce that you can now run a Mac Mini in the […]
AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect
AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect I write a lot of blog posts about a lot of different cloud subjects – but why should you listen to me? I don’t make a big deal of it, but I’m an AWS certified Cloud Solutions Architect. Yeah, I know, I exams and everything! Where Did AWS Come From? […]
Serverless Websites Are Awesome!
Serverless Websites Are Awesome! It’s no secret that we are proper geeks. Cloud geeks specifically, but we do just love any good tech. Serverless technology is a good example of tech we think is cool, but serverless is often difficult to set up. Not so with serverless websites; serverless websites are awesome! What Is A […]
Beaty Consultancy at the AWS Summit 2020
Beaty Consultancy at the AWS Summit 2020 Here at Beaty Consultancy, we’re always keen to get our message to small and medium sized businesses, that we’re not like other consultants. We’re not paid shills for one platform or another. And we pride ourselves on talking plain english, and saving you money by cutting the rubbish. […]
Save Money By Using AWS Reserved Instances
Save Money By Using AWS Reserved Instances Part of the AWS Well Architected Framework is a pillar called Cost Optimisation. It’s a pretty simple concept – let’s make sure you get your money’s worth from your cloud spend. But how do we achieve cost optimisation? Well, like most things in technology, there are a few […]
Cloud Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch
Cloud Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch This week, we’re looking at one of my favourite products within Amazon Web Services, and that is CloudWatch! As usual we’re just going to cover the basics here, but if you need more help and advice on defining and deploying a cloud monitoring solution, just get in touch! What is […]
Microservices – The Production Line of Cloud
Microservices – The Production Line of Cloud Today, we’re talking about Microservices – The Production Line of the Cloud! We talked about Containers a little while ago, and the feedback was awesome. People love how we take topics on the cutting edge of technology, and break them up into pieces. But one piece we could […]
The White Apple Company
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 teachers together, and provide online classrooms. Beaty Consultancy helped to rationalise their AWS estate, and was able to cut their monthly spend by more than 50%, while improving service delivery at […]
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 […]
