After two years immersed as a principal software developer and infrastructure architect focusing on AWS solutions and public cloud architecture in general, I felt it was time to sit down and write a few AWS certification exams. These are my thoughts on the certifications, exams, preparation, and value of them after the fact.

For this second post on this series on passwords, I am going to discuss one of the best tools for improving personal passwords security, passwords safes.

If you are a business, or even an individual, and you are starting to think about backup, there is a good chance you are going to consider cloud backup or storage providers. This article is intended to be a brief introduction on the how, when, and why to choose a provider, and why choosing a storage product is a bigger question than it seems.

At the end of this article, you will have a better idea of how your choice of storage provider factors into future cloud services adoption, and how to choose one that fits your needs.

For the first post in my series on passwords, I’m going to discuss some methods for choosing good, strong passwords that are still easy to remember.

What follows is a brief tale of cloud adoption caution, and describes what happens when AWS makes something better, you don’t update your code, and your builds start failing sometime in the future because of it.