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Check Point launches Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall

Well, the time has come.  It is finally here.  Launch day has been and gone, and I now have time to write my own blog article on an initiative I have been leading at Check Point. Check Point Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall I have spent the past few months working with Check Point R&D and AWS Engineers and GTM teams to build this launch and integration.  I am excited to see it showcased at AWS Re:Invent which is coming straight after thanksgiving. What Are Check Point Managed Rules? Check Point Managed Rules are pre-built, continually updated rule groups designed specifically for AWS Network Firewall. Instead of manually building and maintaining large rule sets, customers can subscribe to these managed rule groups and instantly apply Check Point’s threat research to their AWS environments. This includes coverage across: Known and emerging threats Malware command-and-control detection High-risk outbound traffic patterns Suspicious […]

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ARM vs x86: The change in Cloud with AWS

The cloud has always been about choice—choice of services, architectures, and cost models. Over the last few years, another choice has emerged that’s reshaping cloud economics and performance: moving from traditional x86 instances to AWS Graviton, Amazon’s ARM based processors designed specifically for the cloud. The Shift Away from x86 For decades, x86 architecture dominated enterprise workloads. Its ecosystem of software, tools, and developer familiarity made it the default choice. However, as workloads moved to the cloud, organizations started questioning whether “default” equals “best.” In a world where efficiency, scale, and sustainability matter more than ever, x86 often can’t deliver the optimal balance. AWS Graviton is purpose built for cloud workloads. Designed inhouse by AWS, Graviton chips take advantage of Arm architecture, which is inherently more power-efficient. But the value isn’t just about energy savings—it’s about total performance per dollar. Key Benefits Driving Migration: Performance Gains Graviton delivers up to […]

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Automate adding your AWS EC2 instances to your backup policies

Automate adding your AWS EC2 instances to your backup policies

One of the cool use features in N2WS Backup and Recovery is the ability to automate adding your EC2 instances to your backup policies. By leveraging tags this allows you to launch EC2 instances and assign them specific tags and never worry about those instances being protected. This works across AWS accounts too. Whats makes this even easier is when your using something like cloud formation to deploy anything in EC2 you can just have these tags propagated immediately. Lets take a quick look at how we do this. First we need to make sure that N2WS Backup and Recovery is configured for tag scanning.  This is really simple.  Go to General Settings Locate Tag Scan and turn Scan Resources to Enabled You can specify how long the scan interval is.  Default is 6 hours. Once you have this configured, you need to define the tags in EC2.  How this […]

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Clarifying the confusion on the VMware Cloud Strategy

Clarifying the confusion on the VMware Cloud Strategy

Now that VMworld is in full swing, I have had the opportunity to talk to a considerable amount of VMware Service Providers, Customers, and Cloud Consumers.  Everyone has asked the question what does the AWS announcement mean for [Insert vCAN, vCA, IBM] as cloud providers. From a vCloud perspective, adding AWS into the mix is simply just another VMware operated cloud provider.  VMware powers over 4200 service providers around the globe offering capabilities from Managed Services, Hosting and Cloud Services.  This announcement doesn’t change that, so how does it actually all fit together?  Lets try clarifying the confusion on the VMware Cloud Strategy with a diagram; This diagram speaks a thousand words (provided by Jenny Fong for VMworld). vCloud Air Lets start by looking at VMware vCloud Air, this is a VMware owned, VMware operated public cloud.  It runs in a VMware managed data center, is operated and supported by […]

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AWS Summit Review

AWS Summit Review by a VMware guy – Part 2

Yesterday I attended the AWS Summit in San Francisco.  I wrote part 1 of my AWS Summit Review series yesterday, and this can be read by clicking here. That article focused on the feel of the conference and gave some details on the keynote. What I want to talk around in Part 2 is the technical sessions I attended, and what I felt about those. Lets start with Session 1: Introduction to AWS I selected this session, as I hardly know anything about AWS EC2.  I created an account in November and deployed a few things but never used it in anger. An interesting area I thought were that they provide different types of service that are optimised for the workload: Compute-Optimized General Purporse Micro INstances Memory Optimized Storage Optimized GPU Instances They are updating the hardware revisions, and have multiple hardware revisions, for example, compute1 (c1) cluster compute 1 […]

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