AWS Recommends GorillaStack At re:Invent 2017
05 Dec 2017
Cost Optimization Tops the List of Cloud Initiatives For Enterprises
19 Mar 2018We love responding to customer feature requests! Our customers get in touch over our public slack and let us know what features they’re after. We socialize these with the broader user base, sharing over our public roadmap on Trello and with specific customers who are in a special group we call “Friends of GorillaStack”.
I’m always proud to announce new features, but especially so when they are requested by our amazing customers.
Reboot EC2 Instances
This comes from a customer who had issues with some old legacy applications with memory leaks. Sometimes, because of costs, licensing, resources or a litany of other reasons/realities, it is not practicable to go and fix the underlying issue, but rather reboot EC2 instances periodically on a schedule. We heard the pain in this customers voice and beyond this the frustration that they had to create two rules, one to stop and one to start. Easy fix there.
Bunker EBS Snapshots
We heard that customers have been finding it hard to move EBS snapshots between regions. It is proving increasingly difficult to manage the mapping of KMS keys between regions, and deciding whether to encrypt unencrypted snapshots, copy them unencrypted, ignore them, so on so forth.
Bunker RDS Snapshots
Similarly to EBS snapshots detailed above, we can bunker RDS snapshots, such that we are ready to restore snapshots for either purposes of disaster recovery preparation or perhaps the management of UAT/preproduction environments that require production data updates.
Have a use case that we’re not covering? Get in touch and let us know what you’re after!
