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AWSCloudVMware

Migrating AWS EC2 Instances to VMware (Free software)

Earlier this week I posted about how to Migrate VMware Virtual Machines into AWS EC2 instances. I had a lot of interest from this post (1000's hits in the first 24 hours) and several people have asked me about migrating AWS EC2 Instances back to VMware Virtual Machines. So here...
AWSCloudVMware

Migrating VMware VMs to AWS – A to Z (Zero Cost)

There comes a time when you might need to leverage the benefits a public cloud such as AWS has, to host some applications. In my day to day experience, this generally applies to public-facing web applications. There are many benefits as to why you might want to migrate such an...
Cloud

VMware Cloud on AWS – Now on-premises! – AWS Outposts

Today AWS announced AWS Outposts. This new service will allow you to extend your AWS VPC back to your on-premises datacenter while letting you consume AWS services but run them in your own datacenter! Essentially, it will be an on-premises version of AWS. This means you can choose to deploy your...
Certification

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate (Exam Experience)

Yesterday I sat and passed the AWS Solutions Architect - Associate exam. This is a (short) post on what I did to get there and my tips for the exam. This exam was probably the fairest exam I have ever taken. There is little ambiguity, almost no grammar or spelling issues...