To be relevant in the future, financial institutions should partner with hyper-scale cloud providers and enablers like Nordcloud.

• Cloud /
• Financial Services /
• FinTech /
• Public Cloud

I am going to share with you how I prepared for the AWS certification because I believe it's best to hear from the source.

• AWS /
• AWS Certification /
• Cloud Practitioner /
• Cloud Training

The first public cloud region in Finland is finally open!

• Finland /
• Google Cloud /
• Regions

What many businesses still don't realise is that the public cloud is a shared responsibility, from both the cloud provider and customer.

• Applications /
• Cloud Platform /
• Cloud Security /
• Migration

Ensuring cost clarity and optimisation on any public cloud platform is valuable.

• Cloud Capacity /
• Cloud Infrastructure /
• Cost /
• Public Cloud /
• Spend

In public cloud you only pay for consumption, not for development, maintenance etc. The private cloud costs start to stack up over time.

• Cloud Costs /
• Infrastructure /
• Public Cloud

Buying cloud is, on the surface, very similar than fine tuning IT purchasing to outsourcing deals, but also very different.

• Cloud Costs /
• Infrastructure /
• TCO /
• VM

Before you invest your time and money into hybrid cloud, you should understand the realities in workload movement between clouds.

• Hybrid Cloud

Cloud is moving forward so fast that most hybrid cloud platforms and tools will probably be outdated before you get them up and running. Choose carefully what you need as core features, and plug into the knowledge of a company like Nordcloud.

• Hybrid Cloud

Nordcloud proves leadership in information security compliance through ISO 27001 certification.

• Certification /
• Cloud Security

There has recently been a lot of news about data breaches on AWS S3 (Simple Storage System). Sensitive data, passwords and access credentials have been exposed to the whole world.

• AWS S3 /
• Cloud Security /
• Security

We deal with a number of major providers, each with its own outstanding features and strengths. A business just has to identify its needs and pick the service that best meets those.

• Azure /
• Cloud Governance /
• Cloud Security /
• Cloud Solution Provider /
• Microsoft Azure /
• Multi Cloud

Microservices architecture has been a key focus for a lot of organisations in the past few years.

• AWS /
• AWS Fargate /
• Microservices /
• Serverless

'Anything that a typical person can do in less than one second AI can learn. This is an imperfect rule, but holds pretty well.'

• AI /
• Artificial Intelligence /
• Deep Learning /
• Design

So does that mean there is a chance your data lake could dry out very soon? Don’t worry, here are some relatively easy ways to address this challenge.

• Data Lakes /
• Data Management /
• Data Protection /
• GDPR

There might be a service for each of your needs, but how are you going to win overall in the marketplace?

• Data /
• IaaS /
• PaaS /
• SaaS

Our aim is to take a pragmatic approach and use best-of-breed algorithms, libraries and tools, fine tuning them to make truly remarkable, smart applications and digital services.

• AI /
• Machine Learning

The beauty of applications that employ machine learning is that they can be extremely simple on the surface, hiding away much complexity from users.

• AI /
• Artificial Intelligence /
• Machine Learning

Customer needs are nearly impossible to predict when developing new products.

• Agile /
• B2B /
• Micro-Architecture

This post introduces four general design guidelines that can help on the way to start to build applications.

• AI /
• Artificial Intelligence /
• Design Solutions /
• Machine Learning /
• Personalization

Last Wednesday, AWS's CEO Andy Jassy held his traditional keynote, and on the machine learning front, there were several interesting announcements.

• AWS /
• Cloud /
• Compute /
• Machine Learning

Modern cloud platforms offer infrastructure but also building blocks that enable developers to focus on the development of the actual service, whilst leaving the infrastructure work to the cloud provider.

• APIs /
• Digital Transformation

Much like the last 5 years at re:Invent, we were treated on the Thursday to a keynote by Werner Vogels, speaking at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

• AWS /
• Managed Services /
• re:Invent /
• Well-Architected

When Werner Vogels makes bold statements, expectations are set high. So when Vogel's tweeted 15 minutes before the start of re:Invent's day 2 keynote, we had to wonder what was coming.

• AWS /
• Back-up /
• Compute /
• Data /
• DynamoDB /
• Instances /
• re:Invent /
• Restore /
• Serverless

AWS re:Invent kicked off in Vegas yesterday, and a number of the Nordcloud team have travelled across the pond to attend what is probably the biggest Cloud event on the planet.

• AI /
• Machine Learning /
• re:Invent

Contemporary service designs acknowledge the potential – and danger – in big data, but the tools to transform the potential into a revolution in the ways of working is still missing.

• AI /
• Data /
• Data-Driven Solutions /
• Design /
• Machine Learning

I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about how Nordcloud Germany have managed to stay on top of the industry for the last year or two.

• Cloud Computing /
• Public Cloud

Amazon CloudFront key benefits include extensive integration with other AWS services, ease of use, a cost effective pay-as-you-go pricing scheme, and the growing global distribution network exhibited by the latest Edge location.

• AWS /
• Cloudfront /
• Content Delivery Network

For the first time ever the largest and most technical gathering of the German AWS community took place in Cologne.

• AWS Transformation /
• Cologne /
• Containers

AWS recently announced some more features for Spot instances, an exciting prospect for anyone wanting to make some significant savings. In this blog, we'll take you through what Spot instances are and how they differentiate from Reserved instances.

Azure App Services is arguably the most popular Azure PaaS service, allowing you to host Web Sites and App Functions in a fully managed service.

• Azure /
• Cloud Applications /
• Cloud Security

AWS Organizations provides policy-based management for AWS accounts.

• AWS /
• AWS Organizations /
• Consolidated Billing /
• Cost Explorer /
• Instances

One typical concern when moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services is that you may lose control over it, but the truth is quite the opposite.

• AWS /
• Cloud Security /
• CloudTrail /
• CloudWatch /
• SNS /
• Virtual Private Cloud

The financial services industry is being challenged by more digitally focussed banks that are able to offer their services quicker and more efficiently because they have built their infrastructure on the cloud.

• Cloud /
• Cost /
• Data /
• Financial Services /
• FinTech /
• FSI

Agile cloud platform allows your business to respond quickly to changes in the market and embrace digital transformation.

• Agile /
• Cloud Computing /
• Digital Transformation

Training to become a cloud engineer with Nordcloud’s first University of Cloud program (UCN)

• AWS /
• Cloud Platform /
• Cloud Training /
• UCN /
• University of Cloud

Are you interested in the latest cloud technologies? We have developed a new way of on-boarding,  a six-week-long course, University of Cloud, in which you will be able to gain the skills you need to work with the cloud.

• Cloud Engineer /
• UCN /
• University of Cloud

- Developer Leo Lehtonen tells what makes a workplace different

• Career /
• Developer /
• Life at Nordcloud

- Cloud Architect Jani Eränen is not afraid to prove himself wrong

• Cloud Architect /
• Life at Nordcloud

Don't be a Security Idiot - you are the first line of defence! Know if the data is being stored in a secured manner by using encryption and if backups are being stored offsite or in an isolated location.

• Cloud Security /
• Patching /
• Public Cloud /
• Security

Containerisation in the industry is rapidly evolving. Fortune 500 organisations all use cloud containers because they provide portability, simple scalability, and isolation.

• Cloud Container /
• Containers /
• Security

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store (SSM) provides you with a secure way to store config variables for your applications.

• SSM

Building a secure environment is one of the most important aspects of the Public Cloud.

• Azure /
• Azure Policy /
• Microsoft Azure

This month, Microsoft announced the general availability of Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database in all Azure regions.

• Microsoft /
• Microsoft Azure /
• PaaS /
• VNET

- using EFS as a means to persist your Docker Volumes in your ECS cluster

• AWS /
• Capacity /
• CloudFormation /
• Docker Volumes /
• Migration

- A fast and easy way to get started on the Internet of Things.

• Artificial Intelligence /
• AWS IoT /
• IoT /
• Machine Learning

Global VNET peering enables customers to connect Azure networks in different regions by easily leveraging Azures global networking backbone.

• Azure /
• Express Route /
• MPLs /
• VNET

The latest version of aws-cfn-bootstrap package aws-cfn-bootstrap-1.4-25.17.amzn1.noarch that was signed November 2 around 21:00 UTC changed how cfn-signal works. 

• cfn-signal /
• CloudFormation /
• Deployment

Improving skills and know-how around the ever-expanding technology selection in modern IT environment

• Android /
• AWS /
• AWS IoT /
• AWS Lambda /
• AWS Rekogniton /
• CloudFormation

With stateful clusters, the idea is to create storage and network interface before a VM is created.

• AWS /
• Clusters /
• ENI

Last week, Microsoft launched two new series of virtual machines, the D_v3 and the E_v3 which are follow-ups to the D_v2-Series

• Azure /
• VM

AWS has recently introduced Lambda@Edge which gives you the possibility to run Lambda code in Edge locations. What does it mean for CloudFront users and what can you achieve with it?

• AWS /
• AWS Lambda /
• Code

AWS announced yesterday they had released a new set of EC2 GPU-powered instances specifically geared towards graphic intensive applications

• AWS /
• AWS EC2

The recent Onelogin breach showed us that account access permissions can be devastating if not done right.

• Onelogin /
• Security

In this blog post we want to describe some of these aspects and encourage all of you to take a look at opsidian.ai in the near future.

• AWS Lambda /
• ChatOps /
• Slack