Have you no wildcard ec2:* in your IAM policies? Your Security Group rules are as strict as possible? Your S3 Bucket Access Policies only contain rules you know? You know about every single resource that runs in your account? If so, stop reading and please tell me how you achieve that!Otherwise: I’m sorry, your AWS […]
Archives for July 2016
Create a serverless RESTful API with API Gateway, CloudFormation, Lambda, and DynamoDB
This article teaches you how to create a serverless RESTful API on AWS. You will use CloudFormation to define the API Gateway in combination with Lambda to implement the functionality. DynamoDB is used to store the data. The example’s source code is available on GitHub and can be used to speed up your project. If […]
AWS Weekly 2016-29
A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, July 18 Going Serverless: CloudSploit shared their migration story New course from AWS Community Hero Lynn Langit: Amazon Web Services for Data Science Tuesday, July 19 Microservice Software Architecture: Airtime engineering team shares their architecture Wednesday, July 20 Four New AWS Training […]
DevOps and Security #c9d9
What are some of the best practices for building security as an integral part of your tools and practices throughout your delivery pipeline? On Tuesday I participated in an online panel on the subject of DevOps and Security, as part of Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), a series of community panels about Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps. […]
AWS Weekly 2016-28
A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, July 11 Allocating costs: AWS Directory Service supporting tags. Developing serverless applications with Python: AWS has released a developer preview of chalice, the Python Serverless Microframework. Getting started with Docker on AWS: Arun Gupta explains how to get started with Docker for […]
How to Add ESXi Hosts to vCenter using PowerShell
There are quite a few clicks needed to add a host to vCenter. If you are deploying multiple hosts to your environment you have many clicks ahead. You should script it! This PowerShell script will make adding multiple hosts to vCenter easy! Let’s see it in action! ##################################################################### # Load VMware Plugins and connect to […]
Serverless Big Data pipeline on AWS
Lambda is a powerful tool when integrating different services on AWS. During the last months, I’ve successfully used serverless architectures to build Big Data pipelines. And I’d like to share my learnings with you. The benefits of serverless pipeline are: No need to manage a fleet of EC2 instances. Highly scalable. Paid per execution. A […]
AWS Weekly 2016-27
A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, July 4 Selling software: AWS Marketplace supports ISV sellers based in the EU. Wednesday, July 6 Adding a manual approval to your deployment pipeline: AWS announced manual approval actions for CodePipeline. Ensuring encryption: AWS Security Blog explains How to Prevent Uploads of […]
Serverless: Invalidating a DynamoDB Cache
A cache in front of DynamoDB is boosting performance and saving costs. Especially true for read-intensive and spiky workloads. Why? Please have a look at one of my recent articles: Performance boost and cost savings for DynamoDB. Caching itself is easy: Incoming request Load data from cache Query database if needed data is not available […]
AWS Weekly 2016-26
A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, June 27 AWS announced a new region: Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Server Density is discussing Alert Costs for DevOps engineers. AWS Compute Blog explains how to (Create and Deploy a Chat Bot to AWS Lambda in Five Minutes)[https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/create-and-deploy-a-chat-bot-to-aws-lambda-in-five-minutes/]. Tuesday, June 28 AWS announced […]