CloudWatch is the most undervalued service on AWS. It’s like an empty control room. All data is there, but no one is looking at it. Together with IAM and VPC, CloudWatch provides the basis for modern infrastructure. CloudWatch combines an extensive set of functionality that could also be divided into three dedicated services: Metrics, Logging, […]
Archives for July 2017
Maintaining an Open Source library of production-ready CloudFormation templates
CloudFormation is the standard to provision AWS resources. But developing a template is a lot of work. Let’s speed up development and maintenance by working together on high-quality templates: reviewed by experts secure highly available scalable easy to deploy and update built-in monitoring, logging, and visibility documented automatically tested As a maintainer of Free Templates […]
Move to the Next Level of Load Balancing on AWS
Are you still using the Classic Load Balancer – formerly known as Elastic Load Balancer – for distributing incoming requests among a fleet of EC2 Instances? AWS announced the Application Load Balancer, as a new alternative to the Classic Load Balancer in November 2016. It’s about time to benefit from the next-generation load balancer! The […]