Eyal Estrin articles - 89 total
AWS re:Inforce 2025 keynote highlights
A blog post by Amy Herzog, VP and CISO at AWS summarizing the...
Introduction to Day 2 Serverless Operations – Part 2
In part 1 of this series, I introduced some of the most common Day 2 serverless operations, focusing...
Introduction to Day 2 Serverless Operations – Part 1
In April 2023, I published a blog post called "Introduction to Day 2 Kubernetes", discussing the...
Resource-based Scaling vs. Request-based Scaling in the Cloud
When designing modern applications in the cloud, one of the topics we need to consider is how to...
Kubernetes Troubleshooting in the Cloud
Kubernetes has been used by organizations for nearly a decade – from wrapping applications inside...
Kubernetes and Container Portability: Navigating Multi-Cloud Flexibility
For many years we have been told that one of the major advantages of using containers is portability,...
Navigating Brownfield Environments in AWS: Steps for Successful Cloud Use
In an ideal world, we would have the luxury of building greenfield cloud environments, however, this...
Navigating AWS Anti-Patterns: Common Pitfalls and Strategies to Avoid Them
Before beginning the conversation about AWS anti-patterns, we should ask ourselves – what is an...
Hosting Services – The Short and Mid-Term Solution Before Transition to the Public Cloud
Anyone who follows my posts on social networks knows that I am an advocate of the public cloud and...
Stop bringing old practices to the cloud
When organizations migrate to the public cloud, they often mistakenly look at the cloud as "somebody...
Benefits of becoming an AWS Community Builder
The first time I heard about the AWS Community Builders program was back in 2020, in a blog post on...
Enforcing guardrails in the AWS environment
When building workloads in the public cloud, one of the most fundamental topics to look at is...
My 2025 Wishlist for Public Cloud Providers
Anyone who has been following me on social media knows that I am a huge advocate of the public...
Highlights from Werner Vogels Keynote at re:Invent 2024
Complexity warning signs Declining feature velocity Frequent...
Announcements from Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian Keynote at re:Invent 2024
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans Amazon SageMaker HyperPod announces...
Announcements from Matt Garman Keynote at re:Invent 2024
Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances, powered by 16...
Highlights from Peter Desantis keynote at AWS reinvent 2024
Many topics were shared during the keynote, and in this short blog post, we will review some of the...
Qualities of a Good Cloud Architect
In 2020 I published a blog post called "What makes a good cloud architect?", where I tried to lay out...
Unpopular opinion about "Moving back to on-prem"
Over the past year, I have seen a lot of posts on social media about organizations moving back from...
Comparison of Serverless Development and Hosting Platforms
When designing solutions in the cloud, there is (almost) always more than one alternative for...
Time to move on to Day 2 cloud operations
Anyone who has been following my past content on social media knows that I am a huge advocate for...
The Container Orchestration vs Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Debate
When designing modern applications in the cloud, there is always the debate – should we base our...
Fighting the imposter syndrome
I recently asked ChatGPT what is the definition of the term "Imposter Syndrome", and I have got the...
Announcements from AWS re:Inforce 2024 Keynote
AWS re:Inforce is the Amazon Web Services annual event focused on security. The event was led by...
Comparison of Cloud Storage Services
When designing workloads in the cloud, it is rare to have a workload without persistent storage, for...
Poor architecture decisions when migrating to the cloud
When organizations are designing their first workload migrations to the cloud, they tend to...
Journey for writing my second book about cloud security
My name is Eyal, and I am a cloud security architect. In my spare time, I promote cloud adoption, by...
Checklist for designing cloud-native applications – Part 2: Security aspects
This post was originally published by the Cloud Security Alliance. In Chapter 1 of this series about...
Checklist for designing cloud-native applications – Part 1: Introduction
This post was originally published by the Cloud Security Alliance. When organizations used to build...
Trade-Offs When Designing Workloads in AWS
When designing architectures for modern applications in the cloud, we have multiple ways to achieve...