container yard

A Practical Example of Container Portability: DynaTrace ActiveGate in AWS ECS

Pre-Flight General Knowledge Requirements The Problem The Workload Scope While containers may be portable; orchestration feature coverage varies widely. For brevity this topic is out…

Tooling: IAM Legend

AWS IAM actions autocomplete, documentation and wildcard resolution for Visual Studio Code. Supports Serverless Framework, AWS SAM, CloudFormation and Terraform. This extension come from Sebastian Bille over…
Speed Gauge

How to: Host an secure, serverless high performance static website in AWS

The Situation In todays internet website hosting complexity goes from simple to complex very quickly. With the multitude of requirements scaling from just a webpage…

Release: OptOut of data gathering used to AI/ML by AWS

In response to an article published by Corey Quinn coupled with my personal dislike of big-corps using my action to profit I put together a…
AWS EC2 + S3

Bye bye s3fs-fuse, hello S3 Mountpoint

AWS recently released Mount point for S3 into general availability. The TL;DR is the ability to mount an S3 bucket as a Linux volume. In…
AWS RDS

RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones… but why would you want to?

After over two decades in tech. I have learned there are three things you never, ever, ever want to mess with short of research or…
AWS EC2 + S3

Mounting non us-east-1 AWS based S3 bucket into an EC2 instance

The Problem AWS S3 is a global service for storing block data; however, when using a bucket as a file system is can be confusing…

AWS announces the ability for different user/pass from Amazon.com

Got this email less than 30 minutes ago; hopefully this is the first in many step to separate AWS and Amazon operations entirely.
Miro

Case Study: Miro and AWS

So proud to be a team member at Miro, so awesome! The case study by AWS is the latest cap stone of my time with…
AWS & Terraform

How to: AWS Service Endpoint for S3 / DynamoDB

This Again? A few months back I published an article reviewing the different ways to pass traffic between a Lambda in a private subnet and…