Discover cost-saving strategies for GitHub Actions with our guide on utilizing Octolense for expenditure insights and HyperEnv for deploying economical self-hosted runners on AWS. | Continue reading
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Four years ago, we stumbled into Amazon Connect. In essence, Amazon Connect allows your users to reach your organization repr... | Continue reading
The promise sounds tempting, with AWS you can roll out your infrastructure in 28 regions around the world. And indeed, it is an eye-openi | Continue reading
How do you monitor a container workload running on ECS (Elastic Container Service) and Fargate with on-board resources? Here are the prio | Continue reading
DynamoDB is a cloud-hosted NoSQL database from Amazon Web Services (AWS). DynamoDB is popular for two main reasons: It scale... | Continue reading
After a customer complained that a feature of marbot, our monitoring solution for AWS was not working as expected, I started ... | Continue reading
When defining the version of a Terraform provider, do not use > or => conditions. You will run into troubles caused by ... | Continue reading
Learn about the stumbling blocks when migrating from v2 to v3 of the AWS JavaScript SDK. | Continue reading
Three approaches to deploy self-hosted GitHub Runners on AWS: EC2 instance, Auto Scaling Group, Event-driven EC2 instances. | Continue reading
Discover Effective AWS Security Monitoring Strategies. Combining the right AWS services is key when setting up AWS Security Monitoring. | Continue reading
Through the AWS documentation, books like AWS in Action or AWS training, you can gain theoretical knowledge. But beyond that, it is very | Continue reading
Imagine customer support informs you that some customers can no longer access your web application. Immediately you check the monitoring, | Continue reading
We are happy to announce the official launch of our new book Amazon Web Services in Action 3rd Edition. The final version of the book is | Continue reading
This is the behind-the-scenes story of our latest product launch bucketAV | Continue reading
In recent months, I was again reminded that EC2 spot capacity is not always available. For years, I was looking for a safety net for my s | Continue reading
When it comes to AWS monitoring, you probably think of Amazon CloudWatch first. That’s right, but there is another source of information | Continue reading
Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Vilius Kukanauskas from our partner DEMICON explains why Serverle | Continue reading
While answering a support request for bucketAV, I stumbled upon the following question: Is there a way to only scan S3 objec... | Continue reading
Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Samia Rabah from our partner DEMICON talks about ECS Anywhere to | Continue reading
Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Florian Dröge and Lars Hüper from our partner tecRacer share insi | Continue reading
Here are our toughts about the latest AWS announcements as well as our lessons learned. Unbelievable, re:Invent starts in 5 ... | Continue reading
While Twitter seems to be in chaos, the free and decentralized alternative, Mastodon, is rising. At first glance, Twitter and Mastodon ar | Continue reading
Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Rico Nuguid from our partner DEMICON talks about automating deplo | Continue reading
What happened at AWS in October 2022? This is our summary and analysis of the announcements that interested us. In November, re:In | Continue reading
Recently, we have become increasingly dissatisfied with the time our AWS CodePipeline pipeline takes to deploy a change to production. Th | Continue reading
Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Peter Reitz from our partner tecRacer talks about how to build Se | Continue reading
Listen to the AWS-to-go podcast series to get started with AWS. | Continue reading
Through the AWS documentation, books like AWS in Action or AWS trainings you can gain theoretical knowledge. But beyond that, it is very | Continue reading
Two significant aspects of data security are access restriction as well as confidentiality. In the following, you will learn two techniqu | Continue reading
Learn to deal with Step Function's "The execution reached the maximum number of history events (25000)." error | Continue reading
Many VPC designs make use of public and private subnets. A NAT gateway is needed to communicate from a private subnet with the Internet. | Continue reading
cfn-init is a little helper to install and configure EC2 instances managed with CloudFormation. Lately, I was running into is... | Continue reading
We have been selling software through AWS Marketplace since 2019. Selling SaaS is very popular nowadays, and most software vendors are mo | Continue reading
What’s the simplest way to run containers on AWS? My first relevant container workload was running on a fleet of EC2 instances managed by | Continue reading
For many years, we used a hosting partner for serving the [apid Docker on AWS Video Course. When someone bought the video course, we crea | Continue reading
Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Monika Oblonczek from our partner tecRacer talks about how cloud | Continue reading
Which load balancer fits my workload best? As is often the case, AWS offers more than one solution. Read on to learn whether to use the A | Continue reading
How many options are there for deploying containers on AWS? ECS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, and Fargate, to name a few. And there’s ano | Continue reading
What do my MacBook Pro and my container workload running on ECS and Fargate have in common? They both run amazingly well on the ARM proce | Continue reading
Did you recently switch to a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM processor architecture)? The chances are high that you will see an Error: | Continue reading
This is a warning about AWS Security Hub. Organizations that use AWS Security Hub to monitor and mitigate risks pay too much attention to | Continue reading
CloudFormation StackSets rollout CloudFormation stacks to all or some of your AWS accounts. Also, stack sets allow you to dep... | Continue reading
I was excited when AWS announced Aurora Serverless at re:Invent 2017. Disappointment followed shortly after. Even after Aurora Serverless | Continue reading
We launched our blog cloudonaut in 2015, and published more than 340 articles and started to record and publish a podcast episodes and vi | Continue reading
About seven years ago, Michael and I started to write a book about Amazon Web Services. We were beginning our consulting business, and wr | Continue reading
In this blog post, you will learn to implement authentication and authorization for your own HTTP(S)-based applications on AWS. Mo | Continue reading