Musings / April 8, 2019 / Matt Davies | Partner

The Cloud – Anagnorisis and Peripeteia

In my work here at Cloudstep we have two distinct sides to our business, a consulting practice “Jtwo Solutions” and a cloud modelling software and services practice “Cloudstep”. Working on both sides of these businesses affords me the benefit of hands on consulting, technical architecture and implementation as well as scenario based cost modelling activities with a wide range of government and commercial customers.

Change Management / , Musings / March 20, 2019 / Jason Isitt | Founder

A career with a flammable CV Planned Obsolescence

Few industries suffer from this planned obsolescence like IT.  Other professions are made redundant by change.  Ours has the redundancy built right in.  Through the decades, we have several careers in one

Security / , AppDev / March 18, 2019 / Daniel Mateos | Partner

Cognito authentication integration with Django using authorization code grant

Recently we have been working on a Django project where a secure and flexible authentication system was required, as most of our existing structure is on AWS we chose Cognito as the backend.

Below are the steps we took to get this working and some insights learned on the way.

PowerShell / , Automation / March 15, 2019 / Jason Isitt | Founder

Azure PowerShell ‘Az’ Module

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-powershell-az-module-version-1/ Microsoft released a new PowerShell module specifically for Azure late last year called "Az". On the plus side Az ensures that Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core users can get the latest Azure tooling from PowerShell on every platform be it Windows PowerShell or PowerShell Core for my preferred operating system macOs. Microsoft state that …

Networking / March 14, 2019 / Arran Peterson | Partner

SD-WAN made easy

I'll start by asking you two questions: Are you paying too much for your Wide Area Network (WAN)?And, is it the best method of connecting to the public Cloud? At cloudstep.io we are constantly looking for ways to improve our customers connectivity to the public cloud. We consider cloud network connectivity a foundation service that …