AWS

AWS Summit Zurich 2025

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(…)

Guidance for a SQL Server backup strategy in AWS EC2

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(…)

Random permission denied when backing up SQL Server databases to AWS Storage Gateway

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(…)

How to: Restore a Nutanix virtual machine to AWS using HYCU R-CLOUD

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(…)

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(…)

AWS Summit Zurich 2024

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(…)

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(…)

An AWS journey in Geneva

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(…)

Attach database error (SMB Fileshare)

Starting with SQL Server 2012, SQL Server supports databases using the Server Message Block (SMB) file server as a storage option. For performance and reliability reasons, SMB 3.0 or later is preferred to use.For architectures like Always On(…)

AWS Monitoring with Zabbix

Until recently, I did not notice that Zabbix templates can also include Hosts prototypes under (Low Level) Discovery Rules. I wondered why, so I decided to look at pre-existing templates to check what is the aim for it. I chose(…)