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Nordcloud at AWS Summit London

Meet our team at AWS Summit London!

AWS workshop in Poznan, Poland

Together with AWS we want to promote public cloud and enable you all to know more about. So, we’ve decided to host another great workshop organized in Poznan, Poland.

AWS Summit Stockholm

Join Nordcloud at AWS Summit Stockholm to explore the latest tools and services!

Nordcloud Reaches more than 200 AWS Certified Cloud Architects

We're excited to announce that we have reached over 200 AWS certified architects!

Why not Both: Learning AWS and Azure Fundamentals Hands-On

Becoming familiar with cloud fundamentals with two providers sounds like a daunting task, but it can also be very rewarding – especially if you're not going the usual way.

Tutorial: Setting up AWS in China

When it comes to setting up an AWS account, China is quite the exception. Here's what I have discovered so far.

Nordcloud accelerates its growth with new €20 million funding

Nordcloud, the European leader in public cloud services accelerates its growth with €20 million in funding from Finnvera plc and OP Corporate Bank plc.

Petri Kallberg returns to Nordcloud to lead its Finnish technical expertise

Nordcloud Finland appoints Petri Kallberg as their Chief Technology Officer. Kallberg makes a return to the cloud company, where he previously began working in 2013.

Nordcloud appoints Minna Lindholm to lead its people-driven growth

Nordcloud appointed Minna Lindholm to lead its people-driven growth as the Senior Vice President of Professional Services.

Nordcloud prepares for growth by appointing a new country manager in Sweden

Nordcloud appoints a new country manager Malin Stålbrand to lead its growth in Sweden.

AWS Summit Berlin

Join Nordcloud at AWS Summit Berlin to explore the latest tools and services!

Data Lake best practices in AWS

Notes from AWS Data Lake Formation session at re:Invent 2018.

Counting Faces with AWS DeepLens and IoT Analytics

AWS DeepLens is a smart webcam with built-in artificial intelligence capabilities. In this article we'll take a look at how you can use it to count the number of faces seen by the camera.

Nordcloud is proud to support the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region Launch

AWS Region in Stockholm enables Swedish and Nordic customers to benefit from decreased latency, local data sovereignty, to move the rest of their applications to AWS and enjoy cost and agility advantages across their entire workload.

AWS re:Invent 2018: our recap

What a week it was!

Lambda layers for Python runtime

What is AWS Lambda and Lambda Layer?

The close relationship between SAP and AWS provides benefits

The public cloud seems to be the promised land where IT grows flexibly with business and costs are low. This also increasingly applies to on-premise SAP ERP systems.

Nordcloud at AWS re:Invent 2018

We are attending AWS re:Invent Nov. 26-30, 2018 in Las Vegas.

Nordcloudians’ international opportunities

Time for Nordcloudian story of Senior Cloud Architect Hans who moved from Nordcloud UK to Nordcloud Sweden!

What is Amazon FreeRTOS and why should you care?

Amazon FreeRTOS could radically simplify your IoT edge solutions.

Cloud Computing News #13: Coming soon: AWS re:Invent 2018 and two new regions

Cloud Computing News is our curated series on news and innovation on cloud adoption.

#NordcloudianStories: “Legends and union of cloud architects”

Warm welcome to follow a new project with fellow Nordcloudians

Cloud computing news #10: Serverless, next-level cloud tech

Cloud Computing News is our curated series on news and innovation on cloud adoption.

Creating a business case for Reserved Instances

Reduce your costs by creating a solid business case for using AWS Reserved Instances

Cloud-Native Development (AWS CodeStar with AWS Cloud9)

Recently, I have had the pleasure to play with AWS CodeStar. But before we begin, let me give you some background on what the service actually is.

Cloud Computing News #8: Cloud is the new normal for public sector

Cloud Computing News is our curated series on news and innovation on cloud adoption.

Join Nordcloud at AWS Pop-up Loft

Drop in anytime to use the co-working space, gain hands-on AWS experience through free technical workshops on serverless, containers, AI, machine learning and more

Two new Amazon CloudFront Edge Locations in the Nordics

The new Amazon CloudFront Edge locations in Oslo and Copenhagen complete the set for the Nordic countries.

Containers on AWS: a quick guide

Containerisation allows development teams to move quickly and deploy more efficiently. Instead of virtualising the hardware stack (like virtual machines), containers run on top of the OS kernel, virtualising at the OS level.

Cloud Computing News #1: Financial institutions need cloud

Cloud Computing News is our curated series on news and innovation on cloud adoption.

Taking the fast-track to become a Cloud Expert

Training to become a cloud engineer with Nordcloud’s first Talent Acceleration program.

My journey to AWS Certification

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.

Nordcloud Reaches 100 AWS Certified Cloud Architects

We're excited to announce that Nordcloud has reached over 100 AWS certified architects!

SSM parameter store: Keeping secret information structured

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

AWSome Day Oslo: We Had An Awesome day!

AWSome Days (a play on words reflecting Amazon Web Services), are hosted around the world, and will take you through a step-by-step deep-dive into AWS core services.

AWS Fargate – Bringing Serverless to Microservice

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

Persisting Docker Volumes in ECS using EFS

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

How to set up an Azure AD identity provider in AWS Cognito

This post describes step-by-step how to set up an AWS Cognito User Pool with an Azure AD identity provider to allow your application to leverage single sign-on with Azure AD.

AWS opens new availability zone in London

AWS announced last week that they would be opening their 50th availability zone in London.

AWS Pop-Up Loft Munich: The Full Experience

Last Friday, the AWS Pop-Up Loft Munich 2017 came to an end, with a nice little closing party exactly where we spent the last month learning, exchanging and building.

NEW MACHINE LEARNING SERVICES ANNOUNCED AT THE RE:INVENT KEYNOTE

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

ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY GENERATION – THIS TIME, RE:IMAGINED

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.

Day 2 at Re:Invent – Builders & Musicians Come Together

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.

Nordcloud’s managed cloud offering first to bring Sumo Logic’s cloud-native machine data analytics platform to Europe

Sumo Logic forges its first European managed services partnership with Nordcloud to help improve security and incident management and deliver continuous intelligence for modern applications.

New Amazon CloudFront Edge location arrives in Finland!

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

Keeping up with the latest skills: AWS IoT, Polly, and Rekognition

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

How to create stateful clusters in AWS

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

How can I decrease my costs? Enable centralised billing using AWS organisations

AWS Organizations provides policy-based management for AWS accounts.

AWS Lambda@Edge: Running Lambda code in Edge locations

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?

Update: A new generation of EC2 instances from AWS

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

5 AWS services that help you create and monitor secure environments in the cloud

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.

GDPR and the public cloud industry

As of May 2018 a new data regulation law will be put into place by the European Union.

The future is innovation: 5 cloud predictions for 2017

We’re well into this particularly dark and chilly New Year.

Deliver your content quickly with Amazon Cloudfront

In today's world, people don't have time or patience for unnecessary delays.

How to fully automate retrieving TLS certificates with Kubernetes

Writing Kubernetes controllers when problems arise

5 Things To Know When Starting To Use DynamoDB & NoSQL Databases

What is DynamoDB and how can you use it?

AWS WELL ARCHITECTED FRAMEWORK UPDATES

A little over a year after AWS published the Well Architected Framework, it has had its first update. The Framework was developed from AWS’s experiences helping organisations architect, test, develop and deploy into AWS.

Nordcloud is an AWS Managed Services Partner

Nordcloud has become a member of the audited group of AWS Managed Service Partners.

Transforming enterprises through cloud infrastructure

A bi-modal strategy for enterprises