Migrating from Azure to AWS
About Ferret Ferret is a company providing a Relationship Intelligence solution. It collects data from tens of thousands of sources, uses AI and machine learning to classify this data, and allows its customers to have access to exclusive databases, such as historical and real-time negative news, politically exposed people, papers and leaks, illegal activity, social […]
Using DbT and Redshift to provide efficient Quicksight reports
TL;DR: Using Redshift as a Data Warehouse to integrate data from AWS Pinpoint, AWS DynamoDB, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and other external sources. Once the data is ingested to Redshift, DbT is used to transform the data into a format that is easier to be consumed by AWS Quicksight. Each Quicksight report/chart has a fact table. […]
DNX is accredited with the AWS Security competency
Many organisations are moving to the cloud seeking benefits like slashed IT costs, more flexibility, increased efficiency, and potential for innovation and developing new capabilities. However, for most, this is not a simple lift-and-shift process. To attain and maintain their licensed status, which is fundamental to their business, many of these organisations need foundational, operational, […]
Appearition and its Omni platform for Immersive Technology
About Appearition Appearition is an Australian technology company focused on creating immersive technologies that serve multiple industry verticals via a flexible API led interface. Appearition was created with the purpose of providing cutting edge technology and also to be the agent of change by reducing the barriers to entry into immersive technologies for all sizes […]
Launching Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Joining a Self-managed Domain using Terraform
TL;DR:The github repo with all scripts are here. Because of specific requirements, reasons, or preferences, some customers need to self-manage a Microsoft AD directory on-premises or in the cloud. AWS offers options to have their fully managed Microsoft Windows file servers (Amazon FSx for Windows File Server) join a self-managed Microsoft Active Directory. In this […]
AWS OpenTelemetry for centralised observability in a multi-account architecture
As a cloud consulting company, we at DNX work directly with many Fintechs and SaaS companies using AWS. Many of these companies need to meet high levels of compliance providing their software in a single-tenant architecture, where each of their customers has their own AWS account to guarantee full isolation between customers. This raises a […]
Scalamed: Building a HIPAA compliance environment while migrating from Heroku to AWS
About Scalamed Scalamed is an Aussie startup that allows patients to receive prescriptions directly from their clinician to their mobile phones. Taking a patient-centred approach, Scalamed believes the company must empower patients with the right information at their fingerprints to make health personalised for them. Combining the experience of patients, care-givers, doctors, pharmacists, and geeks […]
Verifier: Building a compliant CDR data environment and supporting Verifier on their Accredited Data Recipient journey
Introduction to CDR Australia Consumer Data Right (CDR) is well underway across Australia. Under the CDR framework, Data Holders (Australian banks and credit unions) will enable consented sharing of consumers’ data through standardised open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) with Accredited Data Recipients (ADRs). By streamlining and securing the transfer of personal data, the CDR framework […]
How to deploy an ALB + ASG + EC2 using AWS CDK and TypeScript
Have you heard about Cloud Development Kit or CDK? [Yes, No] What is AWS CDK? The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), lets you define your cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in one of five supported programming languages. It is intended for moderately to highly experienced AWS users. In this blog post, you will see how […]
Using taints and tolerations in EKS to run machine learning pods on GPU nodes
One of our clients uses EKS and they had a problem: running machine learning pods on a special Kubernetes node group that has GPU nodes. We solved this problem using Kubernetes taints, tolerations, labels, and node selectors. This is how to configure it: Choose an Amazon EKS-optimized Arm Amazon Linux AMI and install the NVIDIA […]