Archives for June 2016

In this post, I will demonstrate how you can develop, test, deploy and operate a production-ready Serverless Microservice using the AWS ecosystem. The combination of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway allows us to operate a REST endpoint without the need of any virtual machines. We will use Amazon DynamoDB as our database, Amazon CloudWatch […]

AWS announced Amazon EFS, a scalable network file system, at re:Invent 2014 almost two years ago. Finally, EFS is now generally available and production-ready in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland). Are you interested in giving EFS a try? This article shows you how to setup your first EFS environment within […]

A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, June 20 AWS announced EC2 is now supporting SQL Server 2016. AWS Blog published a guest post: Zynga Gets in the Game with Amazon Aurora. Software Engineering Daily is discussing Serverless Code. Tuesday, June 21 AWS Blog announced EBS is supporting cross-account […]

DynamoDB is offering a managed, scalable and highly available database. Compared to SQL databases a big advantage of DynamoDB is the ability to scale the read and write throughput. This allows you to scale the database along with your application layer, no matter if you are using EC2 behind ELB or API Gateway with Lambda. […]

Quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, June 13 Cloud Academy explained Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Amazon Kinesis Firehose Tuesday, June 14 AWS SES Blog announced Amazon SES Now Supports Email Headers in Notifications AWS announced More Details from Service Last Accessed Data AWS announced AWS Config […]

Hosting a static website is possible with S3, an AWS service that offers unlimited cloud storage capacity. You are able to deliver static content like HTML, CSS, images (e.g., PNG and JPG), audio or videos. You can’t execute server-side scripts like PHP or JSP, but it is of course possible to deliver client-side scripts (e.g., […]

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) allows you to manage AWS services. Using the CLI from your terminal interactively allows you to half-automate tasks and frees you from logging into the AWS Management Console. In addition integrating the CLI into shell scripts allows you to automate your infrastructure and the configuration of EC2 instances during […]