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Aurora PostgreSQL Express Configuration: From Zero to Production Database in 30 Seconds
Discover how Aurora PostgreSQL Express Configuration eliminates setup friction, enabling a production-ready database in under 40 seconds with managed internet access and IAM authentication.
Bash Commands I Use Every Day: A Practical Guide to Terminal Productivity and Text Processing From an Old-School Terminal Guy
Discover essential Bash commands and workflows for terminal productivity, organized by daily tasks: navigate, search, process, and manage. Ideal for efficient text processing and problem-solving.
Processing Industrial Telemetry at Scale with AWS Batch, Spot, and Bedrock
AWS Batch with Spot EC2 efficiently processes large Parquet files of industrial telemetry, enabling scalable, cost-effective predictive maintenance with Amazon Bedrock LLM incident reports.
Lambda Managed Instances with Terraform: Multi-Concurrency, High Memory, and Compute Options
Lambda Managed Instances with Terraform enables multi-concurrency, high memory workloads on EC2, offering a blend of Lambda's simplicity and EC2's power.
Amazon Aurora DSQL: A Practical Guide to AWS's Distributed SQL Database
Aurora DSQL merges DynamoDB's serverless benefits with Aurora PostgreSQL's SQL power, offering a unique, multi-region, serverless SQL database solution on AWS.
EKS and The Cross-AZ Tax: How to Stop Paying AWS $0.02/GB for Traffic That Should Never Leave Your Availability Zone
Avoid costly cross-AZ traffic in EKS clusters with a simple YAML change, saving on AWS charges for unnecessary inter-AZ data transfer.
It's All About That Memory - Using Long and Short Term Memory with Agents
Explore 'The Blackwell Murder,' a noir detective game using AgentCore Memory's 4 long-term strategies and short-term memory for continuous, multi-session gameplay.
AWS Lambda Now Knows Where It Lives: Exploring the New AZ Metadata
AWS Lambda now reveals its Availability Zone via a new metadata endpoint, simplifying functions that need AZ awareness.
Elastic Container Service (ECS): My default choice for containers on AWS
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is the go-to solution for running containers on AWS, offering simplicity, deep AWS integration, and advanced deployment features.
Amazon EventBridge: The Event-Driven Backbone of AWS (And My Favourite Service)
Discover why Amazon EventBridge is the author's favorite AWS service, offering event-driven architecture, serverless capabilities, and seamless integration across AWS services.
AWS Lambda Durable Functions - Build a Loan Approval Workflow with Checkpoints, Callbacks, and a React Frontend
I have been using AWS Step Functions for workflow orchestration for a long time now. I used it in my Serverless Data Processor project to coordinate batch data processing and in the Serverless Cloud Pizzeria to manage pizza order progress with task t...
My AWS Summit Toronto experience and GenAI
I have been experimenting and working with AWS for many years now. Way back when, I started out by purchasing a training course put out by Yan Cui (featuring his cat) and have learned so much since then. I was fascinated with the idea of the scale an...
Managed Secure SFTP using Terraform
There are many ways to securely transfer data around today. One approach that has been around for a long time involves using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file manag...
Serverless Cloud Pizzeria Shop
I have spent lots of time learning about various areas of software and cloud development so far in my career and wanted to work on a project that combined many of those components. In recent years most of my focus has been on backend technologies but...
Serverless AWS Account Watcher
Keeping track of all the actions being done in your AWS account can be a real challenge - especially when you have multiple team members using the same account. All actions in your account get recorded in the AWS CloudTrail application in AWS. This t...
AWS SSO Credentials With Multiple Accounts
AWS IAM Identity Center Traditionally everyone has used usernames and passwords to access everything and has to keep track of the credentials for all the accounts they use. Now there are much better approaches available with many services and applica...
Serverless Site Health Check Notification System
I have been spending lots of time the last few years working on projects in cloud environments. Most of my adventures involve AWS but i have spent time with all the major clouds and have tried out many of the components they provide. There are so man...