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Sustainable Infrastructure: Carbon-Aware Computing

Cloud computing consumes enormous energy. As infrastructure scales, so does environmental impact. We started measuring and optimising for carbon emissions alongside cost and performance. The Problem Cloud made infrastructure invisible—including its environmental cost. Spinning up resources was …

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Cloud Cost Optimization Without Sacrificing Reliability

Cloud bills have a way of growing faster than the applications they support. When finance asked for a 30% reduction, we had to find savings without compromising reliability. The Problem The bill had grown organically. Resources provisioned for load tests never deleted. Development environments …

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Updated: Terraform 101 Tutorial

We’ve updated our Terraform 101 Tutorial to work with the latest stable version, which at the time of writing is Terraform 0.14.6. If you are just starting out on your Cloud journey and would like to have a go at Infrastructure As Code on AWS then feel free to give it a whirl. Over 5 steps the …

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Delete AWS IAM users virtual MFA

There seems to be some kind of bug in the AWS web console around users assigning MFA tokens. If a user starts the process then get cold feet and back-out, it still creates an unassigned token, blocking their completion of the process during futute attempts. The only way around this seems to be using …

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