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Born in the cloud and 100% focused on AWS, Trek10 specializes in leveraging the best tools and AWS managed services to design, build, and support cutting-edge solutions for our clients.

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With multiple production deployments under our belt, our team is one of the foremost experts on building serverless applications and enabling enterprises to migrate to cloud-native architectures. Massive scalability, heavy automation, and remarkably low operating costs are our hallmarks.

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Client Testimonials

Facing increasing demands in the technology space, we needed an enterprise ready solution to take us to the next level in supporting a business-critical activity. Trek10 built us a scalable serverless solution on AWS that allows for quick and responsive access to our content across the world, coupled with automatic scaling as our needs increase.

Leveraging standard AWS tooling, open source technologies, and custom services, the very talented Trek10 team built us one of the most flexible deployment and QA processes around.

Trek10 is more than a partner, they have become part of our team and success. We committed to an internal deadline, and these guys worked all hours with my team to make it happen. Dedication, talent and teamwork! I am blessed to be working with these guys.

Recent Posts from the CloudProse Blog

September 24, 2018

Custom Metrics Deep Dive

While custom metrics are an afterthought for many when initially operationalizing their systems, we view custom metrics as one of the things that separates the “good” operations from the “great” ones.

August 15, 2018

Fargate Pricing in Context

If you are looking at containers, you may be weighing the options of Fargate vs other container management options on AWS like ECS, EKS, or a DIY cluster. In this post we’ll try to provide some context to that pricing comparison.

March 05, 2018

Enforcing the 'Two-Person Rule' with AWS CodePipeline

Maybe your business’s software isn’t quite as dangerous as a nuclear warhead, but you’d still prefer it didn’t blow up in your face. For that reason, you might choose to integrate some form of the two-person rule as part of your CI/CD pipeline: requiring multiple people to sign off manually on a code change before it enters your production environment.

February 20, 2018

Datadog Event Mapping

Learn about serverless computing in less time than it takes a Lambda function to run. Today’s topic is ‘Talkin’ Lock-In’. So put five minutes on the clock - it’s time to ‘Think FaaS’.

September 15, 2017

Introducing Live Debugging in AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda makes it easy for developers to write and deploy code at almost limitless scale. What has been hard is debugging that code. Live debugging has been a pipe dream, and offline tools work most of the time but not for everything. We managed to change that with AWS Lambda Debugger.

October 24, 2017

Our Approach to IAM Escalation

At Trek10, one of the great things about our CloudOps offering is that we often have to solve problems on AWS for ourselves and then use our learning to implement the same solution for our customers. In this case, it was a security challenge. How do we balance the principle of least privilege with a reasonable level of productivity in a wide-ranging set of AWS accounts?

September 13, 2017

A Big Step Forward for Trek10

We founded Trek10 three and a half years ago with a mission to transform our clients’ IT infrastructure by leveraging the very best and latest in cloud technologies. Since then, we’ve been racing at full speed to build a company that provides world-class engineering expertise and support for high-performance environments on Amazon Web Services.

July 14, 2017

AWSume - Now in Python!

In case you’ve missed it, AWSume is a cross-platform AWS command-line tool that makes working with the AWS CLI under different profiles or roles super easy. You no longer have to manually set environment variables, or pass the --profile to the end of your AWS CLI calls.

June 20, 2017

Making CI easier with GitLab

At Trek10, we always try to consider the need for automation and repeatability with everything that we do. That’s why we focus on using tools like CloudFormation, Serverless, and CI, as well as building other tools.

June 07, 2017

Trek10 Announces Support for AWS Greengrass

Trek10, Inc., an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner with the DevOps and IOT Competencies, today announced support for AWS Greengrass. AWS Greengrass is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that seamlessly extends AWS to devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage.

April 17, 2017

What is the Difference Between Dedicated Hosts and Dedicated Instances on AWS?

Way back in March of 2011, AWS announced the release of [Dedicated Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-dedicated-instances/), which allows organizations to launch EC2 instances on dedicated infrastructure. Typically, when an EC2 instance is launched in a VPC, the virtualized infrastructure is built from a pool of shared resources (e.g., CPU units) that is in use by all customers within a given [Availability Zone](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/).

April 05, 2017

AWS Data Ingestion Cost Comparison

There are multiple AWS services that are tailor-made for data ingestion, and it turns out that all of them can be the most cost-effective and well-suited in the right situation. We'll try to break down the story for you here.

March 31, 2017

DynamoDB Auto Scaling - Open Sourced

We have several projects that use DynamoDB heavily. And, while DynamoDB works great, you can hit throttle limits if you are trying to tightly match your provisioned capacity to your actual demand. What about scaling up during the day and down during the night to meet your need? To do this, you would essentially need DynamoDB Auto Scaling.

February 14, 2017

Using Lambda and Datadog to Monitor VNS3 IPsec Tunnels

For all of our customers, any downtime for an IPsec tunnel results in significant business impact. This is why we built a Lambda function in Python that leverages the VNS3 API to check all IPsec tunnels for any outages and then posts a custom Datadog metric to notify our 24/7 CloudOps team of any IPsec tunnel issues.

October 20, 2016

Lambda Error Hound

Lambda Error Hounds is command line utility, written in node, for getting the CloudWatch logs around Lambda error metrics, or even a specific time from any CloudWatch log group.

September 20, 2016

CloudFormation YAML is Here

You may have seen the announcement recently about what we at Trek10 consider to be the biggest update to CloudFormation since CloudFormation itself. AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Simplified Substitution.

August 05, 2016

What is Serverless and Why Does it Matter?

When you hear “Serverless” I know what you’re thinking… oh boy, another buzzword! I get it. And it’s a pretty confusing one, on two levels. There are still servers! We're just talking about a new abstraction above the servers, but of course the servers are still hiding down in the stack.

May 02, 2016

DynamoDB Auto Scaling - The Serverless Way

So you’re building your serverless app on AWS for unlimited scalability and true pay-per-use. Your web server is Amazon API Gateway - unlimited scale with zero scaling effort. Your app server is AWS Lambda - ditto, unlimited scale with zero scaling effort. And your database is Amazon DynamoDB - unlimited scale… but not quite zero scaling effort.

April 02, 2016

AWS Assume Made Awesome

Here at Trek10, we work with many clients, and thus work with multiple AWS accounts on a regular (daily) basis. We needed a way to make managing all our different accounts easier. We create a standard Trek10 administrator role in our clients' accounts that we can assume. For security we require that the role assumer have multifactor authentication enabled.

March 21, 2016

SSL Certificates... for Free!

As a follow up to our post HTTPS Everywhere, today we'll discuss some history behind the SSL certificate and why they seem to cost so much money. We will also dive into the current landscape of SSL certificates and how you can obtain free Domain Validation certs through AWS Certificate Manager and Let’s Encrypt.

March 09, 2016

Introducing LambdaClock

CloudWatch Event rules can be scheduled at minimum intervals of 5 minutes. At Trek10, we saw the need for a smaller interval, namely 1 minute. This need arose specifically in the context of handling Auto Scaling within ECS.

February 15, 2016

Using Roles to Secure Your Environment, Part 2

In Part 1, we reviewed a use case for roles in which console users would be required to assume a role for access to the production environment; we have implemented this for some of our more security conscious customers for the benefits we mentioned in Part 1. In Part 2, we will review cross-account roles and some of the different use cases.

February 03, 2016

Ops in a Serverless World

New technology appears and old job functions become obsolete. The practitioners move on to retrain on higher-value tasks and in the end the whole system is more productive. It happened when cars replaced blacksmiths, when the computer replaced armies of human calculators, and it is happening now as cloud services replace low-level hardware babysitting on a large scale.

August 24, 2015

Static Websites for a Better Tomorrow

The bytes that make up the page you are reading right now were delivered by a set of servers close to you. They were not generated by a server running WordPress or Joomla. In fact, the entire Trek10 website has no traditional server backend at all.

May 24, 2016

The Misunderstood t2 Instance Type

Amazon EC2 has over 40 different instance types and keeping track of them all can feel a little daunting. To simplify it, pay attention to something called an “instance family”. This is the prefix before the period in the instance name, for example the m3.large instance is in the family “m3”.