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Author: Anup Sivadas
Anup Sivadas is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services and is based out of Arlington, Virginia. With 18 + years in technology, Anup enjoys working with AWS customers and helps them craft highly scalable, performing, resilient, secure, sustainable and cost-effective cloud architectures. Outside work, Anup's passion is to travel and explore the nature with his family.
Use guardrails to protect DynamoDB tables
Access control to AWS services and resources should be governed by the security principles of zero trust and least-privilege. Zero trust requires that users are strongly authenticated and fine-grained authorization is enforced before gaining access to resources. Least-privilege is a principle of granting only the permissions required to complete a task. Least-privilege is also an AWS Well-Architected best […]
Multi-region SQL Server deployment using distributed availability groups
A multi-region architecture for SQL Server is often a topic of interest that comes up when working with our customers. The fundamental reasons why customers adopt a multi-region architecture approach for SQL Server deployments is: Business continuity and disaster recovery Geographically distributed customer base and improving latency for end-users This post explains the architecture patterns […]
How to architect a hybrid Microsoft SQL Server solution using distributed availability groups
Migrating monolithic mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server databases from on-premises to AWS (that is, to SQL Server based on Amazon EC2) is often a challenging task. The challenge comes mostly from the following: A prolonged downtime window during cutovers that can have an adverse impact on the business Challenges involved in keeping the databases (both on-premises […]