What is a Well-Architected Review? https://youtu.be/afFxViWjNcY A well-architected-review is based on an AWS whitepaper from AWS that describes the ideal way of running workloads in AWS, all these findings are combined in the Well-Architected Framework. This framework consists of five pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization. It’s a way of thinking about […]
Introduction Extremely proud to show you how we helped our FinTech costumer Cake to deliver a resilient and secure banking platform using Amazon Web Services. Executive Summary Startup Cake launched its banking app—rapidly and securely—with help from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner IN4IT. Using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS […]
What is AWS Config Every time you’re reading about yet another unprotected S3 bucket that has leaked, you’re probably wondering how is it possible to let this happen. When your AWS footprint gets bigger, it gets more difficult to keep track of all your AWS resources. You might have multiple AWS accounts, making it even […]
AWS Users and Roles can have their permissions limited by a Permission Boundary. The effective permissions are at the intersection of the user or role policy and the permission boundary (which is also defined as an IAM policy). One of the use-cases of using Permission Boundaries is to restrict external access of your AWS users […]
How Cake uses Kinesis to deliver real-time insights. Cake brings together all your existing bank accounts and transactions. The app analyses your financial data and habits, to make your life better. Cake makes your bank accounts pay off again, by sharing its profits with you. It’s the app that rewrites the rules. To make sure […]
Employees typically get a laptop or workstation to do their work. Contractors use their own laptops or workstations in most cases. This brings all kinds of challenges on how to manage and secure these. In small and medium companies there is often no time or resources to ensure the laptop is and stays secure. When […]
JWTs (JSON Web Tokens) provide an easy and scalable way to perform user access control. JWTs are often used in microservices. As shown in the diagram, JWTs are signed by an authentication server, stored by the user, and can be validated by one or more application servers when a user makes an API call. The […]
Data partitioning helps to speed up your Amazon Athena queries, and also reduces your cost, as you need to query less data. Partitioning data means that we split the data up into related groups of data. Possible partitions could be date (time-based), zipcode, different types (contexts), etc. When querying the data, the query is constrained […]
Learn how we ingest, process, and visualize data at a price point you never thought was possible. BI Software is notoriously expensive. Today there are a lot of great tools to choose from, like Tableau, IBM Cognos, Microsoft PowerBI, etc. For a customer, we implemented Amazon QuickSight, and we are surprised by the low price […]
IN4IT offers 24/7 support contracts to its customers. It’s very important for us that our customers can easily and reliably reach IN4IT when they need assistance. Instead of capturing the calls to a support engineer, we want our customers to be able to reach the correct engineer directly. We are not a telecommunications company, so […]