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It does make it more difficult to customize using all the various options the AWS services offer but that's the tradeoff for the simplicity.

Shubham Murty shows the setup of a ReactJS front-end with an AppSync GraphQL backend including Cognito for auth and a DynamoDB table for data storage. (3️⃣/3️⃣)

AWS Amplify allows you to pull in Cognito for Auth, S3 for Object storage, DynamoDB for Key/Value DB, and more. It can get you up and running quickly to build a prototype or Proof of Concept. Much of the complexity of integrating with AWS services is abstracted away when using Amplify. (2️⃣/3️⃣)

AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q CLI and MCP on Windows Subsystem for Linux Creating a professional architectural diagram is a task required of solution architects, developers, system administrators, network…

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Building full-stack apps on AWS can be done using various approaches but one that is rather straightforward involves Amplify. Amplify provides libraries and tools for front-end frameworks making it easy to integrate with AWS services. An example of this is below. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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The example application below from Dan uses these services and more. (3/3)

Eventbridge allows you to run actions based on schedules or when specific events are seen. Lambda allows you to write custom code to interact with any AWS service SQS is great for decoupling services and allows operations to be handled at any scale. (2/3)

Serverless Architecture: Building a System Using EventBridge, SQS, Lambda, and DynamoDB Introduction

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Some of the key AWS services used in Serverless and event-driven applications include Eventbridge, AWS Lambda, and SQS. Seeing examples can always help understanding how things work. (1/3)

Vladimir Dimitrijevski shows an example using Lambda and Eventbridge to trigger scaling of ECS services based on events received from the Simple Notification Service (SNS). (3/3)

AWS Eventbridge has a scheduler that can be used to trigger actions on a schedule and also has a rule processor to react to events. Using AWS Lambda you can trigger almost any kind of business logic. Combining Eventbridge and Lambda allows you to automate just about anything. (2/3)

Stop Paying for Idle AWS ECS Services: Automate Start/Stop Scheduling Today in this blog post I’ll explain what steps I took to shut down my testing environment outside of business hours.

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Paying for resources that are doing nothing is a total waste of $$$'s. The good thing is all the tools needed to shut them down are available. This example shows how you can use AWS serverless components to shut down Elastic Container Service (ECS) services. (1/3)

The article from Ravi Sharma discusses an interesting example of using Kinesis and AWS Lambda to process large amounts of records and investigation of bottlenecks in the process. (2/2)

How to Optimize AWS Lambda & Kinesis to process 5 million records The learning outcomes of optimizing the Kinesis Data Stream flow to support high throughput

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When you need to process large stream of records on AWS a good approach is to use Amazon Kinesis. (1/2)

Michael Ortiz shows examples below of setting up the hosts using Terraform and how to connect to it. (3/3)

Opening an SSH port to servers will result in lots of attempts to hack. When using SSM you can setup hosts in private subnets on Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Instead of passwords you can use IAM permissions to define who has access. You can use your favourite SSH tools on top of SSM as well. (2/3)

AWS: Don’t SSH into Your Public Bastion — Use SSM Session Manager Instead Using a Public EC2 Bastion to access your VPC resources through SSH from your local computer? There’s a better, more secure way and that is…

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In order to access infra running in AWS when support access or config changes are needed teams traditionally used SSH and Bastion hosts. A better approach with AWS is to use Systems Manager (SSM) Session Manager. The example below shows using Terraform for this. (1/3)

Issue #237 - IaCConf, Writing Terraform Provider, Meaningful Terraform Test Workflows, Kamal with Terraform, Monitoring Streamlit Apps

Terraform Weekly #237 - IaCConf, Writing Terraform Provider, Meaningful Terraform Test Workflows, Kamal with Terraform, Monitoring Streamlit Apps
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If you read the articles from Miguel Angel Muñoz Sanchez on DSQL you can get a better understanding of what problems it's trying to solve and how it works. The latest article discusses about using precision time service to deal with simultaneous updates to the DB. (3️⃣/3️⃣)

In order to optimize for performance and multi-region support, the DSQL team has to come up with new approaches along with som sacrifices in Postgres functionality that many are used to. For example there is no foreign key support in the DB itself and many Postgres extensions are not supported.(2️⃣/3️⃣)

Aurora DSQL: How to Control Time In the previous article, we explored how we arrived at Amazon Aurora DSQL and why we need a database...

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It's not very common for us to see new database tech get released but AWS recently put out Aurora DSQL service which takes a new approach to support a highly scalable and multi-region Postgres compatible database. The series of articles below go in depth on it. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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This article from Kenta Goto describes some of the best approaches you can take and offers examples of using them. (3️⃣/3️⃣)

Using the CDK allows you to build and manage resources using your favourite programming language. Internally this code gets converted to CloudFormation templates before being applied and by default isn't completely validated. Using various techniques can help here. (2️⃣/3️⃣)

How to Choose Validation Approaches in AWS CDK Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Validation in AWS CDK AWS CDK...

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Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools is really important to be able to maintain your setup and be able to clean it up when needed. The Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an excellent IaC option when working with AWS. Validating CDK input is an important step. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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It's great to see constant improvements from AWS in many services. (3/3)

SQS is one of AWS's oldest services and is widely used to decouple components and build highly scalable event driven architectures. (2/3)

Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB - AWS Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB

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This is a really nice change to the Simple Queue Service (SQS) on AWS! You can now send 4x as big of a payload in your queues (up to 1MB of data). This increased size includes standard and FIFO queues. (1/3)

down the problems and fix their misconfiguration.

Teams running in the cloud need to have people with knowledge of how VPC networking and AWS pricing works or they will likely end up paying a lot of unneeded $$$s to AWS. (3️⃣/3️⃣)

AWS charges a fix price to have NAT Gateways up and running but the big concern is the per GB charges for data passing through it.

This article from Eran Levy discusses how they were seeing huge NAT Gateway costs and used tools like VPC Flow Logs and Athena to query those to narrow.. (2️⃣/3️⃣)

How We Cut 40% in NAT Gateway Costs Further analysis uncovered valuable insights that allowed us to reduce NAT costs by 40%

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One part of how NAT Gateways work on AWS that many don't understand is that calls to AWS services from within a VPC will go over NAT Gateways unless you setup VPC Endpoints to allow a more direct connection to these AWS services from your VPC. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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Serverless Rules CDK Nag Pack

"How we can use the Serverless Rules Nag Pack in the AWS CDK, discussing the common findings from running against production apps."

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One that I recently saw and plan to setup is the Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway solution. It's a production ready implementation of LiteLLM running inside AWS. You could set this up yourself but having a very flexible and configurable packing already built can really help. (3️⃣/3️⃣)

I recently have seen some presentations from the AWS Solutions Library team and am very impressed with what they have put together. They have a wide range of solutions that are tested and vetted by AWS for real world use. These are all installable in minutes via Infrastructure as Code (IaC). (2️⃣/3️⃣)