by Cloudaxis | Jan 10, 2019
About the Customer: Urban.com.au is a online showroom for properties and real estate investments located across Australia. Most of the properties are newly developed and lean toward the high end of the market. For those looking for either a new apartment/townhouse to...
by Michael Welsh | Sep 24, 2018
Greetings. We have been asked so many times about how to configure cross-account S3 access that we decided to wrote a blog post about it. Here goes. What you will need 2 separate AWS accounts 1 S3 bucket in each account Enough privileges on the accounts to create IAM...
by Michael Welsh | Aug 24, 2018
Coming from a development background, notably as a Java developer, the use of automated build tools has always been a top priority. People at Cloudaxis, myself included, have been using Jenkins for over ten years, all the way back to when it was known as...
by Cloudaxis | Dec 15, 2017
Our friends at Google have revealed plans to open a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) region in Hong Kong next year as part of its ongoing Asia-Pacific expansion. The new GCP Hong Kong region will be the sixth in Asia-Pacific, joining facilities in Taiwan and Tokyo as well...
by Sindrew Shih | May 28, 2017
Container technology, and more specifically Docker, is hot right now because of the productivity improvements it brings. Containers make it very simple to automate application deployment and speed up application delivery. Other key benefits of Docker include:...
by Sindrew Shih | May 2, 2017
You may have already found yourself in front of a bad surprise at the end of the month, when you realize your cloud bill was much more than you expected. Perhaps someone in your team started some services and forgot to terminate them, uselessly running up the bill...
by Cloudaxis | Dec 29, 2016
A report came out last week about the fastest average internet speeds in the world. South Korea topped the list with an average 26.3 Mbps, more that four times the global average of 6.3Mbps. Hong Kong was not far behind, tapping in at 20.1 Mbps, largely ahead of its...
by Cloudaxis | Dec 20, 2016
Cisco announced this week that it would be shutting down its cloud service, known as Intercloud. After investing $1 billion USD into the project, they have decided to call it quits. The service will stop in March of 2017. At this point they claim that they will be...
by Cloudaxis | Dec 8, 2016
AWS announced today the availability of the new Canada (Central) region. This is the first region opened in Canada and the fifth in North America (North Virginia, Oregon, Northern California, Ohio and the AWS GovCloud) and the fifteenth worldwide. As of the time of...
by Michael Welsh | Nov 21, 2016
One of our clients was highly concerned about DDoS attacks, as this had brought down their site before and apparently it took them days to fully recover. There is an architectural best practice known as the “WAF Sandwich” that can be used to protect you...