What is AWS Storage Gateway AWS Storage Gateway is basically an on-premises software appliance that exposes AWS cloud storage to your local environment. You basically deploy the appliance, connect it to the AWS Storage Gateway backend service and create a File Share (S3 or Glacier backed) or Volume (EBS Snapshot backed): In this blogpost ...
Thoughts on the exam I originally planned to take the exam in 2017 but with some delay, I passed the AWS SAA exam this morning on my first try! I thought the exam was pretty tough but fair. I have not been exposed to AWS very much and the only hands-on experience was labbing around in ...
vRNI and Cross Cloud Architecture As part of last year’s announced VMware’s Cross Cloud Architecture, VMware introduced native Amazon AWS public cloud support for vRealize Network Insight 3.4 Enterprise Edition: “vRealize Network Insight now provides visibility into native AWS constructs such as VPC, VM, Security Group, and Firewall rules. Traffic flows are also analyzed to ...
My very first AWS EC2 instance In this blogpost I will quickly take you through the process of spinning up my very first EC2 instance in my AWS Free Tier lab environment. I will be using T2.micro instances which are eligible for the Free Tier. The first step is to go to the EC2 service ...
My personal motivation I have invested heavily in my VMware certifications the past few years and managed to become certified at the highest level after becoming VCDX-DCV #252 in May of this year. This was a personal mission and I absolutely love VMware technology. However, I am also very passionate about cloud computing. I have ...
I have decided to pursue the AWS Solution Architect certification program so this is a quick blogpost on how to enable the Amazon AWS Free Tier. I will be using this environment for labs during my study but I am kind of hoping I will be able to build some hybrid cloud use cases by hooking ...