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How can a Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Solution help my team monitor the cloud?

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | Aug 20, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Data & Analytics

By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers Existing Monitoring Systems There are hundreds of monitoring products in the marketplace that cover monitoring from enterprise scale to small and medium businesses. How can a monitoring system help your team?...

How can I verify my EC2 instances are patched in AWS?

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | Jun 27, 2019 | Data & Analytics

By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers The typical process of patching on-premise systems Most IT environments have a requirement to keep systems up to date on vendor patches. Typically, in on-premise environments there are dedicated systems that...

What is technical debt & how can I avoid it in AWS?

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | May 15, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Data & Analytics

By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers What is technical debt? The term “technical debt” originated from Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. He once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. Technical debt...

In Memory of Katy Dynes

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | May 8, 2019 | Company

We at Impact Makers are reflecting on the memories of our long-time colleague and friend Katy Dynes. We are grateful to have spent time with Katy, who was a driving force behind our mission and culture since 2011. The impact that Katy made in her lifetime was...

Chaos Engineering: Deliberately Sabotage your Systems

by [Impact Makers](/content/author/impactmakers/ "Posts by Impact Makers"/index.html) | May 1, 2019 | Data & Analytics, Risk

By Suresh Gowda, ICP-ACC, CSM, CSPO, SPC4, AWS-CSA-Associate Senior Consultant, Impact Makers How to quickly recover from services outages Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices, and cloud best practices can result in the creation of loosely coupled...