The Business Compass LLC Podcasts

Building Secure and Scalable AWS Infrastructure with EC2, Key Pairs, and EBS Volumes

Building Secure and Scalable AWS Infrastructure with EC2, Key Pairs, and EBS Volumes
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/building-secure-and-scalable-aws-infrastructure-with-ec2-key-pairs-and-ebs-volumes/
 
Building a secure and scalable infrastructure on AWS requires a well-thought-out approach to access control, data storage, and resource allocation. In this podcast, we’ll walk you through setting up and securing Amazon EC2 instances, using key pairs for secure access, configuring security groups for optimized protection, and creating Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes to ensure reliable, flexible storage solutions for your applications. Here’s everything you need to get started.

Proactive EC2 Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch and SNS Alerting

Proactive EC2 Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch and SNS Alerting
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/proactive-ec2-monitoring-with-aws-cloudwatch-and-sns-alerting/
 
In today’s cloud-driven world, proactively monitoring the performance of your infrastructure is crucial to maintaining system reliability and efficiency. AWS CloudWatch offers robust monitoring for AWS services, enabling you to set alerts for performance metrics like CPU utilization, memory usage, and more. Integrating CloudWatch with Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) lets you receive timely email alerts, ensuring your team can respond swiftly to potential issues. This podcast will walk you through setting up CloudWatch for EC2 monitoring and alerting via SNS.

Building Modular Infrastructure with Terraform: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Modules

Building Modular Infrastructure with Terraform: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Modules
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/building-modular-infrastructure-with-terraform-a-comprehensive-guide-to-mastering-modules/
 
Terraform, a powerful tool developed by HashiCorp, is widely used for managing infrastructure as code (IaC). Terraform is a declarative language that allows engineers to define cloud and on-premises resources in configuration files, simplifying deployment and maintenance. By adopting Terraform, organizations can streamline infrastructure management, increase reproducibility, and reduce manual intervention, ensuring a consistent and automated resource provision.

Unlocking the Full Potential of AWS S3: An In-Depth Guide to Its Capabilities and Features

Unlocking the Full Potential of AWS S3: An In-Depth Guide to Its Capabilities and Features
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-aws-s3-an-in-depth-guide-to-its-capabilities-and-features/
 
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service, or S3, is a leading cloud-based object storage service designed for massive scalability, high availability, and robust data management. This podcast dives into the key concepts, features, and best practices for utilizing S3 to achieve secure, efficient, and cost-effective data storage.

Deploying Scalable Microservices on AWS with Terraform, ECS Fargate, and CloudMap

Deploying Scalable Microservices on AWS with Terraform, ECS Fargate, and CloudMap
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/deploying-scalable-microservices-on-aws-with-terraform-ecs-fargate-and-cloudmap/
 
In today’s fast-evolving cloud landscape, microservices architecture is a powerful approach for building scalable, resilient, and efficient applications. Using microservices on AWS with Terraform, ECS Fargate, and Amazon CloudMap enables organizations to streamline service management, automate deployment, and implement service discovery for flexible, containerized applications. This podcast will take you through the essential steps to set up a microservices architecture on AWS.

Mastering AWS CloudFormation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Infrastructure Automation

Mastering AWS CloudFormation: A Step-by-Step Guide to Infrastructure Automation
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/mastering-aws-cloudformation-a-step-by-step-guide-to-infrastructure-automation/
 
AWS CloudFormation is a powerful tool for automating AWS infrastructure, offering a streamlined way to deploy and manage resources. CloudFormation templates enable users to define all AWS resources required for a particular infrastructure setup as code, creating a structured and repeatable deployment process. In this podcast, we’ll explore how to automate infrastructure deployment with CloudFormation, covering every stage from template creation to testing scalability with Auto Scaling.

Automating Kubernetes Cluster Deployment on AWS EC2 with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide

Automating Kubernetes Cluster Deployment on AWS EC2 with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/automating-kubernetes-cluster-deployment-on-aws-ec2-with-terraform-a-step-by-step-guide/
 
This podcast will explore deploying a Kubernetes cluster on AWS EC2 instances using Terraform, a robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. Terraform enables scalable, manageable, and repeatable infrastructure setups, making it ideal for orchestrating Kubernetes clusters in a cloud environment like AWS. This podcast walks you through each step of configuring, creating, and managing a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform on AWS.

Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS with Node Autoscaling

Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS with Node Autoscaling
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/optimizing-kubernetes-clusters-on-aws-eks-with-node-autoscaling/
 
Node autoscaling in Kubernetes is a powerful feature that adjusts the number of nodes in a cluster to align with fluctuating workloads. By enabling node autoscaling, we allow the system to allocate resources dynamically, scaling up during traffic peaks and down during idle times. On AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), node autoscaling integrates seamlessly with Cluster Autoscaler, creating resilient, cost-effective clusters capable of handling diverse workloads efficiently.

Building a Resilient AWS Infrastructure with Auto Scaling and Application Load Balancer

Building a Resilient AWS Infrastructure with Auto Scaling and Application Load Balancer
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/building-a-resilient-aws-infrastructure-with-auto-scaling-and-application-load-balancer/
 
In today’s digital-first world, high availability is essential for any application architecture to ensure minimal downtime and high reliability. AWS provides powerful tools, such as Auto Scaling and the Application Load Balancer (ALB), to help achieve a robust high availability (HA) architecture. By combining these tools, businesses can automatically scale their applications based on demand while efficiently distributing traffic across healthy instances, resulting in a seamless user experience. This podcast will walk you through setting up a high-availability architecture on AWS using VPC, Auto Scaling, and ALB.

Seamless AWS Authentication on Windows: Installing saml2aws with Ubuntu WSL

Seamless AWS Authentication on Windows: Installing saml2aws with Ubuntu WSL
 
https://businesscompassllc.com/seamless-aws-authentication-on-windows-installing-saml2aws-with-ubuntu-wsl/
 
Secure and seamless authentication is paramount in AWS cloud environments. saml2aws is a command-line tool that simplifies AWS authentication by integrating with various SAML-based Single Sign-On (SSO) providers. With saml2aws, users can leverage their SSO credentials to obtain temporary AWS credentials for accessing resources, improving efficiency while meeting security requirements. For those working on Windows, setting up saml2aws via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can provide a Unix-based environment ideal for seamless AWS access.
This podcast will walk you through installing saml2aws on Ubuntu via WSL to streamline your AWS authentication process.