Are you Well-Architected ?

Recently, we got asked a few questions that really made us think and step back. The questions look fairly simple Our storage costs are going out of roof for system that is not even in production, can you analyze ? We have our Web Application Firewall (WAF) configured but it does not look like it is working right, can you review our configuration

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The buzz around #Serverless

Today, some of us @BizCloud Experts spent the day in a Knowledge Share session at AWS titled, “Driving Business Agility with AWS Serverless”. #Three years ago we saw this coming and built our entire organization to deliver “Serverless Solutions faster, cheaper and better”. Over the years we have delivered Serverless solutions that involved delivering Cloud Migrations, Application Packaging, Continuous Delivery, IoT and Web/Mobile Applications. Today, we are seeing the push by everyone to go Serverless !  We are 100% committed…

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We LOVE Small Business

Last week our CTO and a couple of our Solution Architects joined the community in support of the Small Business Expo held in downtown Dallas. We were among many small business owners all looking to make right connections. Our strategy was simple, educate the crowd on smart office and voice solutions and help redefine the modern workplace. We are showing clients just how building on the cloud combined with DX solutions — can change the way they interact and learn…

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AWS re:Invent – Key Reflections Day One

It’s that time of the year when we begin to reflect on what we accomplished the prior year and initiate what we could do better next year. AWS re:Invent allows us the pause and reflect, realize and plan what’s next to come. Key Reflections — Day One There is a pipeline for everything; monitoring, deployment, migration, application architectures to name a few. For BizCloud Experts 2018 was the year we put our focus towards Service Catalog driven applications, packaging and…

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Let’s build a Serverless Application !

Sounds easy, until you get this picture as the Serverless solution architecture frame work that needs to get deployed! Worried about how to configure Infrastructure that includes, VPC, Route 53, RDS, cloud-front, S3, configure s3-hosting, SSM Parameter store, API Gateway, CFT’s, Lambda, SNS, Cognito  …… and the list goes on ! …

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Smart Office: Simplifying Secure Access to Workplace Services

On an average day, engineers @BizcloudExperts have access to over 10 internal AWS accounts like Agile Project Management tools, time tracking and CRM tools. For each service we were enforcing our security policy, such as password rules, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and so on, individually and all time-consuming. We’re a small business, simplifying how we work is key, so we changed all that by: Enforcing Single Sign-on using SAML / Google ID Enforcing 2 factor authentication on all Google ID’s Now…

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TECH SUMMIT DALLAS 2018

Yesterday we took part in a local event hosted by Tech Summit, the focus was Key IT Trends and Best Practices. The event brought together IT and technology leaders across multiple industries to engage with solution providers and strategists like BizCloud Experts. We got a chance to share what BizCloud Experts is all about— Emerging technologies, best practices, and technology strategies that make up who we are. We were glad to hear positive feedback on our solutions related to the…

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Education Outreach: #DevOps Starter Course @UT Dallas

@BizCloud Experts everyone is proud that they were a part of a successful 5-day Cloud DevOps Bootcamp, July 21 at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. This was first of a kind for us @bizcloudexperts, as we introduced trainers from recent graduates to over 20+ years of experience blending real-world experience into the classroom along trainers skilled in Emerging tools and technologies. The following quote from a student epitomizes our intent,…

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BRIDGING THE GAP!

Successful startups are not created in a vacuum. They are connected to networks comprised of faculty, mentors and other innovators. Higher education institutions can play a crucial role in an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and even a more important role within developing economies. Startups benefit from university involvement in ecosystems in a number of ways. Universities are hubs of human capital, knowledge, and expertise. At BizCloud Experts, we  are proactively outreaching to the universities. Bringing awareness of the benefits is key to…

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Rackspace to AWS Migration

Who is F&I Express? F&I Express is leading the automotive aftermarket industry into the digital age with innovative F&I eContracting solutions. They provide their customers with a hosted PHP application, which helps the customers in eContracting. FIE, which is the application that provides the eContracting functionality, processes anywhere between 5000 and 6000 contracts per day. Issues with current setup FIE is currently hosted on Rackspace, a public cloud provider. Their availability has being going down due to the setup they…

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Service Catalog Accreditation (Beta)

BizCloud Experts Engineers participated in beta program for Accreditation for “Service Catalog”. We had 8 of our AWS certified engineer participate in the program with 100% pass rate. For a small company, like ours, to have the highest participation and pass rate is a unique achievement.

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