Recent Articles on the tecRacer AWS Blog

While Infrastructure-as-Code slowly becomes omnipresent, many of the communicated advantages of the approach stay mostly unrealized. Sure, code style checks (linting) and even automated documentation get more common every month. But one of the cornerstones often gets ignore: testing. Let’s see which types of code testing are available and how to do it without writing too much code. The promise of the Infrastructure-as-Code (short: IaC) movement is to handle infrastructure just as if it was a program.

AWS BI solution Amazon QuickSight provides a neat and powerful web console to handle most use cases. Nevertheless, as soon as a need for automation appears, relying on IaC can help increase productivity.

We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our new series “Insider Stories” Terraformi will tell you how it found its way to the company as well as how it experiences working for tecRacer.

Recently, I blogged about a security incident where CloudTrail was not set up to log S3 data events. But while this is the most common type of data events, there are some more. And one of them has really scary implications. But good news: you can protect yourself about that.

As AWS Cloud adoption becomes more widespread throughout the industries, challenges arise how to govern IT resource usage and implement a coherent management for systems across on-premises and the AWS Cloud. This blog post gives insights in how the AWS offered Systems Manager capabilities could be extended from the cloud environment to your hybrid and on-premises environments.

In today’s post, I will talk about a hacking investigation I recently took part in. We will look into what went wrong, what the attackers did, and how we can improve detection and prevention to manage such incidents better.

To our pleasant surprise, Chef awarded tecRacer the “2021 Technology Partner of the Year” title at the opening keynote of ChefConf 2021.

We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our series “Insider Stories” Matthias will tell you how he found his way to the company as well as how he experiences working for tecRacer.