Rob Stewart

Rob Stewart has over 25 years of experience driving technology innovation. As a cloud architect at SMS, he spearheads the design and implementation of cutting-edge cloud solutions for government and private sector customers, unlocking efficiency and scalability. Prior to SMS, Rob led a global team developing a learning management platform deployed on AWS and was instrumental in driving the adoption of modern devops practices resulting in a dramatic increase in the consistency of software delivery. He is an accredited expert in cloud technologies, with multiple AWS, Azure and Kubernetes certifications. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and two cats.

Getting Started with Amazon EKS Backups Using Velero and Terraform

Discover how to create a robust, fully automated backup strategy so you can recover quickly.
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Leveraging EKS Pod Identity on AWS EKS (Part 3 of 3): Cross-Account Access

In Part 3, we’ll tackle the challenge of granting EKS pods access to AWS resources in a different
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Leveraging EKS Pod Identity on AWS EKS (Part 2 of 3): Cluster Management

Explore how you can simplify EKS cluster administration by using and securing Amazon EKS Add-Ons.
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Leveraging EKS Pod Identity on AWS EKS (Part 1 of 3): Securing Application Access

In the first post of this series, see how EKS Pod Identity is the more secure way to
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AWS EKS Upgrades: Don’t Pay the Price for Outdated Clusters

Amazon EKS updates are crucial for security and updated features. Read about our best practices for regular upgrades
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SMS Engineering is Keeping a Close Eye on OpenTofu

SMS has more than 50 person-years of experience leveraging infrastructure as code (IaC) technologies to address the complex

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Deploying DokuWiki on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) – Part 2 of 2

How to move on from a "Click-Ops" deployment via the AWS console to an Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
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Deploying Your First Container on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) – Part 1 of 2

The experts have all weighed in and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is the only option worth considering.
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