Itâs 2:00 a.m. your phone buzzes. Alerts are flooding in. The production database is down, your main region is unresponsive, and customers are already posting on social media. Panic? Not if youâve prepared.
In this gripping episode of The Cloud Engineerâs Playbook, Disaster Recovery in the Cloud : where milliseconds matter and preparation separates chaos from control.
Weâll start with the basics: What exactly counts as a disaster? From accidental deletions and server crashes to regional outages and cyberattacks, youâll learn how to identify and anticipate threats before they take your business offline. Then, we break down how to plan, design, and execute cloud recovery strategies that keep your systems and your sanity intact.
In this episode, youâll discover:
The anatomy of a disaster and why itâs not always what you think.
The difference between high availability, backup, and true disaster recovery.
How to build a cloud architecture that can survive anything using multi-region deployments, automated failovers, and replication strategies.
How to measure resilience with RPOs and RTOs, and why those two numbers could save your business.
The importance of regularly testing and updating your DR plan before disaster tests it for you.
This isnât just a technical discussion itâs a playbook for survival in the unpredictable world of cloud computing.
Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Letâs make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.
Incidents happen.They just do. As our systems grow in scale and complexity, failures are inevitable. Incidents are also a learning opportunity.
The best way to work through what happened during an incident and capture any lessons learned is by conducting an incident postmortem, also known as a post-incident review.Â
An incident postmortem brings people together to discuss the details of an incident: why it happened, its impact, what actions were taken to mitigate it and resolve it, and what should be done to prevent it from happening again.
In this episode we took a deep dive into why it's neccesary and how to implement an incident postmortem.
Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Letâs make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.
The farther users are from your servers, the slower their experience with your application. In this episode we explored how caching and CDNs bridge that gap bringing data closer to users, cutting latency, and boosting reliability. We dived into caching strategies, edge delivery, and real-world practices that help developers overcome distance, scale globally, and deliver blazing-fast performance.
Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Letâs make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.
Downtime, outages, and unexpected crises can derail any business. This episode, From Chaos to Control: The Incident Management dives into the strategies, tools, and real-world stories that help teams respond faster, reduce impact, and learn from every incident. Insights from IT leaders, SREs, and operations experts on how to turn high-pressure moments into opportunities for resilience, growth, and continuous improvement.
Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Letâs make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.
Struggling with slow, overloaded databases as your application scales? Database Sharding: Breaking Up Databases (Without Breaking Them) offers clear insights into how sharding can solve performance bottlenecks, boost scalability, and keep systems resilient. This episode breaks down concepts, real-world strategies, and best practices so you can confidently design, implement, and manage sharded databases without the headaches.
Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Letâs make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.
In the business world today, organizations face constant pressure to stay compliant, manage risks, and make smarter decisions. Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Blueprint Strategies for Cloud Success dives deep into Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC), a unified approach that breaks down silos and brings IT, business, and leadership together under one coordinated model.
Whether you are an IT leader, compliance officer, risk manager, or executive decision-maker, this podcast gives you the knowledge to navigate uncertainty, cut risk management costs, and unify your organizationâs policies, decisions, and actions.
Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Letâs make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.
In todayâs cloud-driven world, monitoring alone is no longer enough to ensure the health, performance, and security of modern applications and infrastructure. Observability goes beyond simply detecting issues, it empowers IT teams to understand why problems occur, pinpoint root causes faster, and take proactive steps to prevent future incidents. By leveraging metrics, logs, traces, and events supported by tools like AWS CloudWatch organizations can achieve deep visibility across complex, distributed systems. This not only reduces downtime and improves user experience but also fuels innovation, operational agility, and business resilience. In short, observability isnât just a technical capability itâs a strategic advantage in the cloud era.
Need a team to migrate workloads to the cloud, secure your infrastructure, automate your processes, and train your team for optimal adoption, email: contact@diogomic.me to start your transformation today. Letâs make your operations and workloads more optimize and more secured.
AWS is built from the ground up to be the most secure and resilient global cloud infrastructure, making it an ideal platform for developing, migrating, and managing applications and workloads at any scale. With a comprehensive suite of Security, Identity, and Compliance services, AWS enables you to embed robust security controls to safeguard your application architecture helping you protect sensitive data, manage user access, detect threats, and maintain regulatory compliance.
In this episode, we explore the wide range of AWS security tools and best practices that can help you strengthen your cloud security posture. From services like AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Shield, AWS Cognito and AWS WAF, to logging and monitoring solutions such as AWS CloudTrail and Amazon GuardDuty, weâll show you how to leverage these tools to build layered defenses and ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of your workloads in the cloud.
In this episode of The Cloud Engineerâs Playbook, we unpack the full landscape of compute services in AWS from traditional virtual machines to serverless functions, containers, and edge computing.
We discussed about:
Amazon EC2: Flexible VMs for any workload
AWS Lambda: Serverless functions that scale effortlessly
ECS, EKS & Fargate: Container services with the level of control you need
Trainium & Inferentia: Specialized compute for AI/ML workloads
Outposts & Wavelength: Hybrid and edge compute made simple
Elastic Beanstalk, App Runner, Lightsail: Fully managed deployment options
Savings Plans, Spot Instances & Compute Optimizer: Cut costs while staying performant
Whether youâre a developer, architect, or cloud enthusiast, this episode is packed with insights on how to choose the right compute service for your application workload.
đď¸ Episode 12 is here!
Title: Exploring Database Services in AWS The Right Tool for the Right Job
In this episode of The Cloud Engineerâs Playbook, we dive into the wide range of database offerings from AWS from traditional relational databases to purpose-built solutions for modern applications.
Tune in to learn about:
Amazon RDS: Simplified relational database management
Amazon DynamoDB: Fully managed NoSQL powerhouse
Amazon Redshift: Fast, scalable data warehousing
Amazon Neptune: Managed graph database for connected data
Amazon DocumentDB, Keyspaces, and moreâŚ
Whether youâre optimizing your appâs performance or designing scalable, cloud-native solutions in this episode will help you choose the right database for the job.
In this episode, we dive deep into the storage services you can access in AWS, from File Storage Services to Object Storage Services.
In this episode, we discussed the Linux Operating System, which is widely used in Cloud Computing. Some basic commands to start your Linux adventure, commands like:
ls - list items in the current directory
cd - change directory
pwd - show current directory path
mkdir - create a directory
touch - create a file
rm - remove a file
rmdir - remve a directory
cat - displays a file in read state
head - is used to display the first part of a file
tail - is used to display the last part of a file
grep - used to search for text patterns within files or output
curl - transfer data from or to a server
vim and nano (editors) - used to edit
chmod - change file mode (read, write, execute)
chown - change ownership
echo - displays a line of text or variable in the terminal
In this episode of The Cloud Engineerâs Playbook, we zoom in on one of the most fundamental AWS services: Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud).
In this episode, we discuss:
Here is a Cloud Formation template to spin up an Ubuntu OS in EC2.
If youâre building in the cloud, EC2 is mission-critical knowledge. Tune in and level up!
This episode emphasizes a multi-layered approach to AWS account security and management, focusing on:
In this episode of The Cloud Engineerâs Playbook, we take a crucial step back from launching cloud resources like virtual machines and focus on the core infrastructure concepts you need to understand first, using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the cloud platform.
đ What youâll learn in this episode:
đ What are AWS Regions, and why does your choice matter?
đ˘ What are Availability Zones (AZs) and Local Zones, and how do they support high availability
đ What is Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
đ Key features of Amazon VPC, including subnets, route tables, and security groups
đ ď¸ How to work with Amazon VPC to securely host cloud resources
đ° A breakdown of pricing for Amazon VPC so you can plan your infrastructure cost-effectively
If youâre starting your journey in cloud engineering, understanding these foundational concepts is a must before deploying anything. This episode lays the groundwork to help you build in the cloud confidently and securely.
What is SaaS?
Software as a service (SaaS) is application software hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection by way of a web browser, mobile app or thin client.
Why is SaaS important?
SaaS is important because it gives businesses access to powerful software that would previously have been too expensive or energy-intensive to run from on-premises environments. The SaaS vendor manages the hardware, the software tools, and the application in its own data center or cloud environment.
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model that provides a complete on-demand cloud platformâhardware, software and infrastructureâfor developing, running and managing applications.
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a form of cloud computing that delivers on-demand IT infrastructure resources such as servers, virtual machines (VMs), compute, network and storage to consumers over the internet and on a pay-as-you-go basis.
You can use IaaS to scale your compute capacity while reducing your IT expenditure. Traditionally, enterprises purchased and maintained their own computing devices in an on-premises data center. However, this often required a heavy up-front investment to handle only occasionally high workloads.
What is Virtualization?
Virtualization is a technology that you can use to create virtual representations of servers, storage, networks, and other physical machines. Virtualization softwares mimics the functions of physical hardware to run multiple virtual machines simultaneously on a single physical machine. Businesses utilise virtualization to use their hardware resources efficiently and get greater returns from their investment. It also powers cloud computing services that help organizations manage infrastructure more efficiently.
Cloud deployment defines where your cloud infrastructure is hosted and how it is managed, while Cloud services define what type of functionality youâre consuming.
Choosing a cloud deployment model and service model is a basic, but necessary, part of cloud adoption.
Itâs important to know the advantages and limitations of different types of cloud computing so you can understand how they will impact your business.