“I’ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive.” - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Developing Cross Organisational Cloud Solutions at Scale with AWS Service Catalog

Working with credentials within ECS and passing them around is not entirely straighforward. As one way of doing this, this solution bases all environment variable storage in the AWS Parameter Store, then automatically synchronises them with the running tasks in a set of specified ECS clusters and tasks.

Moving government into the cloud turned out all about asking the right questions. The arguments against had been around for many years, and put doubt in the minds of those with more traditional attitudes to IT. Is the cloud secure, is data safe? Many of these questions were the result of the disparity in experiences and conceptual understanding of the change between running in-house servers and running cloud infrastructures. Luckily as time has moved on, understanding and experience has moved in…