AWS

CloudWatch Agent on Lightsail

AWS, CloudWatch, DevOps, Lightsail
2018-11-062018-11-06

Lightsail is an affordable low barrier VPS service from AWS; but it lacks proper monitoring and metrics. Herein read how to use CloudWatch with Lightsail compute instances.

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‘SpotInst’; use EC2 instance types dynamically to save money.

AWS, Cloud Computing, Community, DevOps
2018-10-312018-10-31

Save money, use more spot instances.

Achievement Unlocked! All AWS Associate + Practitioner Certifications obtained.

AWS, Cetifications, Community, General
2018-10-222018-10-22

In a little a year I have been able to take and pass all 3 associate + practitioner certifications from AWS. Here are my thoughts about this past year.

Migrating from AWS EC2 to AWS Lightsail.

AWS, Cloud Computing, DevOps, General, Lightsail
2018-10-042018-10-07

Migrating a Wordpress App from EC2 to Lightsail for cost savings.

The case against Terraform to prevent vendor lock-in.

AWS, Cloud Computing, Terraform
2018-09-262018-10-07

While I like Terraform, using it to prevent vendor lock in is bul***it; The belief of preventing vendor lock in is a false promise of freedom framed by a non-issue.

Achievement Unlocked: AWS Certified Developer Assoc. (DA)

AWS, Certification, General
2018-09-192018-09-28

After many months of delay and procrastination I finally scheduled to sit the AWS Developer Assoc. exam. I was passing the practice exams from acloud.guru with > 90 repeatably and… Read More »Achievement Unlocked: AWS Certified Developer Assoc. (DA)

PHP serverless abstraction framework…

Lambda, PHP
2018-05-24

…as serverless architecture picks up steam in the market I predict we will see more and more languages adopting it; is not whole sale from the vendors then from the… Read More »PHP serverless abstraction framework…

AWS Lambda internals

Community, Lambda, Python
2018-05-15

Ran and Nitzan over at epsagon did a two part article on Medium about AWS Lambda and its internals / runtime environment. It is a pretty interesting read if you are… Read More »AWS Lambda internals

NoSQL search results in MICRO-seconds; via AWS’s new DynamoDB Accelerator.

DynamoDB
2018-05-01

If you have a noSQL data store and need the fast machine possible response time; check this out: Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Regional Expansion “…Using DAX, you can improve the… Read More »NoSQL search results in MICRO-seconds; via AWS’s new DynamoDB Accelerator.

Deleting an AWS API Gateway resource.

API Gateway, AWS, AWS, Cloud Computing, General
2018-04-30

Because it is not well documented in the AWS docs herein is how you delete an AWS API Gateway resource. Click on the end point in the left hand side.… Read More »Deleting an AWS API Gateway resource.