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Troubleshooting Amazon WorkSpace Connectivity from an End-User Device

David Ball | July 30, 2020 | AWS, CLOUD

I recently ran into a situation where I was unable to connect to an Amazon WorkSpace. Though everything looked great on the AWS side in that no problems were displayed within the WorkSpaces console, the Get-WKSWorkspace PowerShell command, and the CloudWatch WorkSpace dashboard, my connection would launch, present me with a black screen, and then […]

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Migrate to VMC using HCX and Powershell

Adam Fisher | March 18, 2020 | AWS, VMWARE

HCX is an application mobility platform that is available at no extra cost for VMC customers. It can perform a number of functions, most notably VM migrations, Disaster Recovery and L2 Network Extensions between sites that are paired within HCX. I’ve deployed VMC/HCX a number of times as a POC for customers that are evaluating

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Veeam Backup for AWS – File-Level Recovery (FLR) Task Stops with Failures

David Ball | January 14, 2020 | AWS, CLOUD, VEEAM

I had a curious issue recently while testing Veeam Backup for AWS. I had no issues deploying it, initializing it, configuring backups, nor restoring instances or volumes. I did however, run into an issue when performing a file-level restore (FLR). About 40 seconds after starting the FLR, I received the error (shown below) stating that

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Whitelisting Lambda Functions

David Ball | July 31, 2019 | AWS, CLOUD

As you continue your journey in and to the cloud, you may find yourself using Lambda functions to send data to remote/3rd party API servers. Not only that, you may find that these 3rd party API providers only accept requests from whitelisted IP addresses. This may shock you, but Lambda functions are not the same

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