Amazon Web Services from a database perspective: RDS and Aurora, databases on EC2, storage, networking, IAM, migration and keeping the bill under control.
New AWS Summit, new day to learn new stuff and deepen my knowledge of this cloud provider. As a starter, I attended the Keynote. The various speakers explained to us the benefits of AWS for startups, how they push newcomers to join the cloud and also help students with their AWS projects. We also had a few customer feedbacks where…
Last Thursday I could go to the AWS Summit Zurich 2025 edition. So it’s time to do a little recap of what I could see and what was presented during the event. Amid the infinite sessions about AI, I could also find some on other topics. I started my journey with a session on security best practices. Then came the…
INTRODUCTION S3 storage is the most resilient and available service in AWS: is a trusted service for storing backups over the long term. From a Windows Server machine, in AWS EC2 or elsewhere, the easiest and most reliable way to make a backup from SQL Server: 1- Concept For data that must be available over a long period of time…
Before addressing the issue of backup size reduction with compression enabled, let me provide some context. When SQL Server is hosted on AWS EC2 instances, you’ll need to manage the backup strategy appropriate to your business. In order to persist and archive your SQL Server backups securely and permanently, AWS S3 is a prime target: it’s the service with the…
YaK core Multi-Platform open source Automation Tool simplifies the deployment of Ansible playbooks through a clean UI and API. It offers an intuitive interface where users can upload playbooks, configure parameters, and deploy them seamlessly across various platforms, and all managed through a centralized inventory stored in a PostgreSQL database. With YaK Core, developers can focus on writing application code…
In this blog I will show you how to restore a Nutanix virtual machine in AWS using HYCU R-CLOUD, formerly HYCU Protege. Context Our HYCU setup is composed of multiple environments, on premise in our datacenter and in the cloud in our AWS accounts. We have a HYCU instance deployed on our Nutanix cluster which is the “master” instance, meaning…
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…
Today I was at the AWS Summit in Zurich. I could have a glance at the latest AWS news and hot topics. Here is a resume of what I saw and learnt during the day. Starting with the keynote, I understood clearly that the main topic of the day would be generative AI. We were show various AI solutions created…
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…
This week I could go to the AWS re:Invent re:Cap in Geneva. This event, organized by AWS, gives a resume of the biggest announcements made in the famous re:Invent in Las Vegas. The topics addressed during this event covered various cloud technologies where AWS is investing resources to develop. We had a recap of the news regarding Generative AI, Data…
Is the Oracle Cloud a hot topic for you? dbi services organized an event about the Cloud today in Lausanne: “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration“. After a welcome coffee to meet each other, Pascal Zanette shortly introduced the event and the agenda of the day. Our CTO Hervé Schweitzer presented then YaK, developed by dbi services.The idea…
In a previous blog I demonstrated how to migrate an Oracle database from AWS to Oracle OCI using Data Guard. But what if you want to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, but don’t have a direct connection between the Cloud Providers, neither of the database servers are available in the public internet or you are using Oracle Standard Edition where…
