I’m not a fan of WordPress, as it is neither cloud-ready nor serverless. That’s why this blog runs on CloudFront and S3 and is built by Hexo. But 25% of all websites are proudly published with WordPress. You will learn about the easiest way to run WordPress on AWS . Including fault tolerance and scalability. […]
Archives for October 2016
AWS CloudFormation Update Evaluation – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Simplified Substitution
In mid-September, AWS released a big update to CloudFormation. The update contained: YAML Support – You can now write your CloudFormation templates in YAML. Cross Stack References – You can now export values from one stack and use them in another. Simplified Substitution – You can more easily embed variables in strings. After one month […]
New CloudFormation Template – Authentication Proxy using your GitHub Organization and YAML
We released one new CloudFormation template and updated all of our templates to make use of the new YAML format, cross-stack references, and simplified substitution. It was never easier to use our templates: cross-stack references are used to link dependent stacks together. Using our Infrastructure as Code templates will help you to bootstrap common setups […]
Serverless Slack Bot Hero Award
marbot, our chatbot, won the Serverless Slack Bot Hero Award at the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competition! Andreas and I are proud and happy winners. Thanks to Amazon and Slack for organizing the hackathon. marbot forwards alerts from Amazon Web Services to your DevOps team via Slack. Watch the video and learn how it works: To […]
Beyond the default: a Multi-VPC architecture
I created my first AWS account on December 23, 2012. The one thing that surprised me most was the possibility to define private networks with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). As this allowed me creating isolated areas, a fundamental prerequisite for building a high-security infrastructure. Default VPC Each AWS account created after December 2013 contains a […]
Introducing the real-time data store: Kinesis Streams
Kinesis is all about real-time data: Kinesis Streams are a temporary store for real-time data. Append new events or read all events in order. Kinesis Analytics helps you to analyze data in real-time. Kinesis Firehose ingests real-time data into data stores like S3, Elasticsearch or Redshift for batch analytics. This blog post will introduce Kinesis […]