Nicolas Jardot has more than 10 years of experience in Oracle database infrastructure management and optimization, with a strong recent focus on cloud and automation technologies, including four-plus years building and maintaining AWS applications with CI/CD pipelines via Terraform. He holds Oracle Certified Professional 12c, Oracle Certified Expert Performance Management and Tuning 12c, and AWS Solutions Architect Professional certifications, has spoken at Oracle OpenWorld and UKOUG, and served as an AWS Authorized Instructor for two years. He holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard. His industry experience covers pharma, public sector, health, real estate, and automotive.
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 and non-profit event on an obvious topic: Azure It’s a quite intensive day, 2 keynotes and 15 presentations split in 3…
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 are no surprises for this year, the generative AI is still a very hot topic. This short blog is about…
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 not possible anymore to use the SSO to access the application. In this blog, we will quickly check how to…
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 and red pill. Neo takes the red pill and exit the simulation. Werner also took the pill. But he entered…
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 goodies 🙂 Confidential compute I have not really paid attention beforehand but I attended sessions mainly on security topics. I…
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 as well. When you enter the room, there is a band playing music and I liked the setlist full of…
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 workshop. Cloud and DevOps The very first session was about combining terraform and Github actions to deploy infrastructure in AWS.…
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 instances no matter if it’s bare-metal or virtual machines. What is AWS Systems Manager? AWS Systems Manager is built with many capabilities…
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 same operations on many instances or we already have an automation based on a script. In those situations, AWS CLI…
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 architecture of the Cloud. The keynote started with a movie about Werner Vogels doing a road trip to Las Vegas.…
Time flies, it’s already the 3rd day at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. As I like to have dedicated time for hands-on I started again the day with another workshop. It’s a lot of knowledge to process daily, when taking the workshop here, AWS provides a temporary account and prepared environments but hopefully most of the workshops can be done…
The 2nd day in Las Vegas at the AWS re:Invent started by one of the most important keynote. It was the keynote from Adam Selipsky, the new CEO of AWS replacing Andy Jassy who moved to Amazon after leading AWS since 2006. As usual, the keynote is a good opportunity to speak about the past successes and announce new services…
