Cloud Computing

AWS Video Tutorial: How to Orchestrate Serverless on AWS (While Building a Slack App)

In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup, Johnny Boursiquot presents on how to orchestrate serverless on AWS. Johnny performs an interactive presentation where he builds a serverless Slack app that allows you to give “shoutouts” to colleagues who exemplify hard work and the core values

HIPAA-Compliant File Transfers: Everything You Need to Know

HIPAA and HITECH were created to ensure that patient data is secure and private. Understand how they impact your file transfers to the cloud. It’s no secret that the majority of businesses are moving to the cloud due to its numerous benefits. One of the

AWS Tutorial: How to Implement User Authentication with Application Load Balancer and Cognito (Video)

Here’s a video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on August 16, 2018 about how to implement user authentication using AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Cognito without modifying your source code. One of our software developers, Kate Ryabtseva, builds a simple web application with

Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud Computing is the Answer to Your Big Data Initiatives

The cloud can help you process and analyze your big data faster, leading to insights that can improve your products and business. This is the first article in our “big data in the cloud” blog post series. Click here to sign up for our email

Thinking Serverless – Using AWS SAM CLI to Build and Test a Serverless App Locally (video tutorial)

Here’s a video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on May 17, 2018 about how to use AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) to build and test a serverless app locally. In this presentation, Meetup member Neil Giarratana uses SAM CLI to

Containers vs. Serverless: Which Should You Use, and When?

Serverless and containers are often viewed as competing development technologies. But when integrated, they can be a powerful combination. An enterprise cloud architect (let’s call him Jack, not his real name) from a large and well-known finance company reached out to us about a dilemma

SFTP Gateway product update, July 2018 – version 1.003.2 available, annual pricing, and more!

Version 1.003.2, annual billing, and advanced support plans now available, and sign up to beta test version 2.0 We hope that SFTP Gateway has been helpful for you! There’s been a lot of exciting things going on and we wanted to give you a quick

How to create a Redshift stack with AWS CloudFormation

Use this CloudFormation template to launch Redshift into your VPC subnet with S3 as the data source This is the seventh and final article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. You can read the first six here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You

How to incorporate S3, EC2, and IAM in a CloudFormation template

Here’s how you can use CloudFormation to have EC2, IAM, and S3 work together This is the sixth article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. Check out our other posts here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should Implement IaC Now 6 best

How AWS CloudFormation Works (and How to Create a Virtual Private Cloud with it)

Here’s an in-depth walkthrough of how CloudFormation works and an analysis of a template that creates a VPC This is the fifth article in our Infrastructure as Code blog series. Check out our other posts here: Infrastructure as Code: 5 Reasons Why You Should Implement