Blog Archives - Rhythmic Technologies, Inc.

Default Encryption for EBS Volumes

Written on June 20, 2019. Posted in Blog.

AWS recently announced default encryption for EBS volumes, which is incredibly useful for compliant environments. Previously, it was necessary to use AWS Config Rules to identify EBS volumes, either...

AWS News – May Round Up

Written on June 1, 2019. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

With the endless flood of new products, features and changes from AWS and its surrounding ecosystem, it can be easy to miss an update. Our monthly round up highlights major AWS news, announcements,...

AWS News – April Round Up

Written on May 1, 2019. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

AWS News – March Round Up

Written on April 2, 2019. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

Using Kube2Iam with EKS

Written on March 12, 2019. Posted in AWS, Kubernetes.

Kube2iam lets you attach IAM roles to running pods in your Kubernetes cluster. Kube2iam is a bit confusing to install at first but is actually trivially easy to use once you understand how it works....

AWS News – February Round Up

Written on March 2, 2019. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

Route 53 Resolvers

Written on February 18, 2019. Posted in AWS, CloudFormation.

To minimal fanfare, AWS released Route 53 inbound/outbound resolvers at re:Invent 2018. That’s unfortunate because if you’re one of the [all of us] running a hybrid infrastructure or using centralized...

AWS News – January Round Up

Written on February 6, 2019. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

Understanding GP2 Volume Performance

Written on January 2, 2019. Posted in AWS.

GP2 Performance in EBS is widely misunderstood, resulting in many writing off EBS as a choice between “slow” or “expensive”. While there is some truth to that, I often see EBS implementations that fail...

AWS News – December Round Up

Written on January 2, 2019. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

AWS News – re:Invent Recap

Written on December 3, 2018. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

Another re:Invent is in the books, and there were dozens of major announcements—too many to summarize effectively in a single post. This recap focuses on the ones most relevant to developers and engineers,...

AWS re:Invent: The Guide To Not Going

Written on November 23, 2018. Posted in AWS.

AWS hosts their annual conference next week in Las Vegas, bringing in 40,000+ people from around the world to showcase their company and roll out new and enhanced services for the coming year. AWS re:Invent...

S3 Public Access Policies: What You Need To Know

Written on November 20, 2018. Posted in AWS.

Last week, AWS announced S3 Public Access Policies, new bucket-level controls to restrict public access to buckets. This is a big deal, as prior to this there was no way to definitively make a bucket...

AWS News – October Round Up

Written on November 12, 2018. Posted in AWS, Industry News.

Kubespy shines a light on your Kubernetes cluster

Written on November 8, 2018. Posted in Kubernetes.

The IT landscape is one that evolves rapidly and, when providing a service, one that is very dynamic in meeting demand. Since Google open sourced the Kubernetes project in 2014, it has gained a lot...

Setting Password Policies via CloudFormation

Written on October 5, 2018. Posted in CloudFormation.

One of the first things you set up in any new account is an IAM password policy. Ideally, you’d like to create as much as possible in your AWS account with CloudFormation templates. Particularly when...