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Major Improvements to Amazon Health Events
Major improvements to Amazon alerting for Managed Services customers. Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2018 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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UPDATE - Lifecycle Management for Amazon EBS Snapshots
Posted Jul 24, 2018 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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NEW!! - Support for EBS Volume Health Monitoring and Alerting
Automatic monitoring with alerting of impaired EC2 EBS Volumes Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2018 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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UPDATED!! -- AWS Service Health Monitor
Blumetech AWS Managed Service updated to handle future outage of the AWS Service Health Dashboard due to large scale events like the recent S3 Outage Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2017 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Helpful links to help keep with smart computing
Secure computing time requires that all users take an intelligent approach at all times. We all at least know someone who has productivity or even lost files due to viruses and malware attacks. Someone recently announced that the most important thing that anyone can do is to SLOW DOWN. We... Continue reading
Posted Dec 21, 2016 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Windows 7 update struggle
We’ve been struggling with some computers which won’t update. During updates, the system hangs searching for updates but never completes. After several hours of struggling with various suggestions, following this post finally did the trick! Thank you plugable for this post. http://plugable.com/2016/06/08/windows-7-wont-update-what-to-do/ Continue reading
Posted Dec 10, 2016 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Stop and eliminate the Windows 10 ‘free upgrade’ prompt
This may be old news but we continue to have user’s computers incessantly prompting them to upgrade to Windows 10. Some may not mind this but most find this annoying enough that they are tempted to click on the link to upgrade just to make the icon go away. Most... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2016 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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UPDATED - Support for Longer Resource IDs
Blumetech adds for support for Amazon's longer Resource IDs Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2016 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Updated - Reduced E-mails for AWS Scheduled Events
We have made adjustments to our e-mail sending algorithm as it pertains to scheduled events. Scheduled event e-mails will now only be sent once per day. This change will reduce the e-mail volume for scheduled events by over 99%. Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2016 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Updated - Faster Backups
Blumetech releases new feature that drastically reduces backup times. Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2016 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Automatically Encrypt AWS Instances
Automatically encrypt existing AWS instances. Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2016 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Updated - Reserved Instance Expiration Alerts
Blumetech's AWS Managed Service now includes monitoring Reserved Instance expirations for RDS and ElastiCache Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2015 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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New - Reserved Instance Expiration Alerts
Blumetech Managed Service now includes Reserved Instance expiration monitoring. Continue reading
Posted Dec 17, 2015 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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AWS Security and Blumetech Clients
High level overview of security on AWS for Blumetech's customers Continue reading
Posted Dec 8, 2015 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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New - Monthly Snapshots
Posted Nov 27, 2015 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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New - Custom Backup Profiles per Instance for AWS Managed Service
Posted Nov 27, 2015 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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SSD Drives really do make a difference!
Some of you already know this but replacing a standard mechanical or even hybrid hard drive with an SSD makes an incredible difference in system performance. At the urging of one tech savvy client, we have replaced all desktop hard drives and their 5+ year old machines are now blazing... Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2015 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Scripting VPC and VPN configurations on AWS
As part of Blumetech’s managed service, we’ve created applications that provision your AWS infrastructure. These services follows AWS published best practices and is based on our many years as an AWS Advanced Partner. Our team has created scripts which will streamline the configuration your AWS infrastructure (VPC, CloudTrail, and S3... Continue reading
Posted Nov 13, 2015 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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AWS EBS Encryption
AWS adds encryption at rest to EBS Continue reading
Posted May 22, 2014 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Scripting EC2 Restore from Snapshots
Automatically restoring EC2 instances from snapshots Continue reading
Posted Dec 6, 2013 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Update AWS Managed Services Automated Backup
Posted Dec 6, 2013 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Python Workshop - Session 10
Overview of connecting to Amazon Web Services using the Python BOTO library. Get list of all instances. Get IP and name for each instance. Create a new instance. Create a new volume and attach to instance Video: Click Here Python Code: Download Boto_Project Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2013 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Python Workshop - Session 9
In this workshop we handled a problem Comcast gave us. They needed 8000 files edited but sent us 20000 files. We wrote a program to filter out the files we needed. In addition, we fixed up the files which were in the wrong and\or inconsistent formats. We also implemented a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2013 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Python Workshop - Session 8
In this session we covered How to browse a directory tree for files Using LXML to parse files Real world application to edit metadata XML file for Comcast Session Video Session Python Code - Download Comcast_RENT_Meta Continue reading
Posted Sep 17, 2013 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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Python Workshop - Session 7
Video - Session 7 Python Code - Download UFO_Project Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2013 at Blumetech's Tech Blog
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