Overview With the increasing demands and the advantages of Cloud technologies, moving Jira to Cloud is definitely inevitable regardless it is self-hosted Jira in Cloud (IaaS) or Atlassian Jira Cloud (SaaS). As our current project is to migrate Jira to AWS cloud, I will be focus on the challenges vs solutions to run Jira in … Continue reading Run Jira on AWS – Challenges vs Solutions
Three years ago, I wrote a blog on how to Consolidate Elastic Beanstalk ELB. If you have not done it yet, then you don't need to do it in that way now. As just a couple days ago, AWS finally announced that AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk … Continue reading AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing ALB (finally)
We recently migrated Confluence Data Center to AWS. And by using the Read-Only mode, we achieved zero downtime! Everything works well since the migration. During the working hours, the normal load is between 6000 to 7500 RPM (request per minute). And the two node cluster is still able to provide satisfying response time while the … Continue reading Load Balancing Algorithm for Confluence
Question: Using the credentials for one IAM role 1 to assume a different IAM role 2, what is the maximum duration of the new credentials? A. Same as Role 1B. Same as Role 2C. Same as the role (1 or 2) which has longer maximum duration D. Same as the role (1 or 2) which … Continue reading AWS IAM Role Chaining
Identity & Access Management Secure AWS account (AWS organization, MFA).Rely on centralized identity provider (SSO).Use multiple AWS accounts ot separate workloads and workloads stages such as production and non-production (SCP, Guardrails, Control Tower).Store and use secret securely (STS, Secrets Manager). Detection Enable foundation security services (AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub).Configure service and … Continue reading AWS Security Checklist
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