Nicolas Jardot

Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2025

Last week I attended the Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2025 with my colleague Adrien from the Cloud team. It was the 1st time for us but it was already the 6th edition of the event. This is a community event(…)

AWS Summit Zürich 2024

Last week, I attended the AWS Summit Switzerland 2024 in Zürich with one of my colleague from the Cloud team. These kind of events are interesting to see the trends and stay informed on what’s new in AWS Cloud. There(…)

Renew expired certificate for your SAML SSO application in Azure

Using Single Sign-on to manage accesses to cloud applications is really convenient. However SAML is using a certificate between the Identity Provider (IdP) and the Service Provider (SP) application and this certificate may expire. Once this certificate is expired, it’s(…)

AWS re:Invent 2022 – Day 4 – Keynote day

Thursday starts with one of the most awaited keynote of the conference. The keynote Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com. He started with a video inspired by the famous scene from Matrix when Neo has to choose between the blue pill(…)

AWS re:Invent 2022 – Day 3

Traditionally, the 3rd day is almost always the busiest and the most crowded in the sessions. I followed 4 breakout sessions, one 2 hours workshop and found some time to visit the Expo to see some sponsors and look for(…)

AWS re:Invent 2022 – Day 2

The second day usually starts with the keynote from Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS. The keynote is not a technical session but it’s a good place to learn about new products or services launches. In such big event, it’s show(…)

AWS re:Invent 2022 – Day 1

This week I feel lucky to attend the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. This event is so big there are multiple ways to go through it. For the first day I made a mix between breakout sessions and a(…)

Automated patching at Idorsia with AWS Systems Manager

Servers patching is very important but can be very challenging. One of our customers, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd implemented successfully AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to automate patching not only of instances running in AWS Cloud but also covering on-premises(…)

AWS CLI tips and tricks

When working with AWS, I would not advice to run all operations through the AWS Console. And it’s not always possible or easy to do it only with pipelines and Infrastructure as Code. Sometimes, we just need to perform the(…)

AWS re:Invent 2021 – 4th day

On Thursday morning, I attended the keynote Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. I have the feeling it’s one of the most awaited keynote, Werner Vogels is not just launching new services but also provide a better view on the(…)