Last one out turns off the light. What works for boring light bulbs can be adopted to your cloud infrastructure as well. Are you using a development and testing environment that is only used during working hours? Why not turning off the cloud infrastructure with the press of a button when the last one leaves […]
Archives for August 2017
New CloudFormation Template – Backing up DynamoDB the easy way
DynamoDB is an easy-to-use NoSQL database available only on AWS. It comes with many useful features such: Time-to-live for items Secondary indexes Scalable read and write throughput Streams that contain all changes of a table Unfortunately, there is no backup feature. You might say: But DynamoDB replicates my data. The durability guarantees are super high. […]
CloudFormation vs. Terraform
The most reliable way to automate creating, updating, and deleting your cloud resources is to describe the target state of your infrastructure and use a tool to apply it to the current state of your infrastructure (see Understanding Infrastructure as Code). AWS CloudFormation and Terraform are the most valuable tools to implement Infrastructure as Code […]