I’m Mark Ross, Lead Cloud Architect at Atos, specialising in AWS and an AWS Ambassador. I’ve been in the industry for 22 years now, starting out as a field service engineer fixing laptops and desktops as the ‘filling’ in the sandwich of my Computer Science degree, moving on to server…

I’m a Lead Cloud Architect within Atos’ OneCloud practice, spending most of my time working with customers on large cloud projects — migrations, build outs of Landing Zones, new deployments of applications. In addition to my day job I’m passionate about supporting people to help them improve their skills, be…

With the advent of containers and serverless you’d be forgiven for thinking no-one uses good ‘old fashioned’ servers any more, however based on most customer’s cloud bills I’d suggest there’s still a fair amount of VMs in use. With that in mind and a recent question on the best way…

I’ve been passionate about working with and learning about AWS technologies since I dipped my toe with my first ACloudGuru course at the beginning of 2017. Since then I’ve been on a learning journey, both from a training and certification point of view (see My Journey to AWS ‘All 12’)…

I’m a Lead Cloud Architect within Atos’ Cloud Enterprise Solutions practice, spending most of my time working with customers on large cloud projects — migrations, build outs of Landing Zones, new deployments of applications. In addition to my day job I’m passionate about supporting people to help them improve their…

Note — if you’re here to find a repository with preconfigured code it can be found here. To conclude my mini series on using Open ID connect to connect GitHub to the hyperscalers I’m now going to discuss Azure. …

Note — if you’re here to find a repository with preconfigured code it can be found here. I recently wrote an article on how to do this with AWS, but wanted to share how to do it in GCP too. OpenID Connect is a layer on top of the OAuth2.0…

Note — if you’re here to find a repository with preconfigured code it can be found here. Many people use non native CICD to deploy to AWS. Personally in addition to the native tools I’ve used GitHub and GitLab for both code repository and CICD. Typically this approach has involved…

I took my first AWS beta exam today, the SAP on AWS Specialty Certification. The exam follows the standard AWS format of exams - questions with multiple choice, with either one or multiple answers being correct. Questions were pretty long in the main with the final important bit of the…