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#63 Serverless Software Engineering | Builder's Diary Vol. 4

#62 [Hot off the Cloud] re:Invent + CodeCatalyst + EventBrige Pipes + Step Functions Distributed Map

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#61 [Hot off the Cloud] re:Invent + Cross-Account CloudWatch + AuthZ Verified Permissions + ELB Resilience

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#60 [Hot off the Cloud] AppSync JavaScript Resolvers + IAM MFA + CloudFront CD

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#59 [Hot off the Cloud] EventBridge Scheduler + Resource Explorer + ECS scale-in protection

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#58 [Hot off the Cloud] Neptune Serverless + WAF Bot Control + Private App Runner + Fault Injection Simulator

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#57 Infrastructure Pipeline with GitLab and Terraform Cloud | Builder's Diary Vol. 3

#56 [Hot off the Cloud] Lambda Parameters + Dark Mode + SQS FIFO + Nitro Enclaves + Interactive Video Service

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#55 Serverless ETL with Athena and Airflow | Builder's Diary Vol. 2

#54 [Hot off the Cloud] Lambda event filtering Kafka + Athena query engine v3 + more

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#53 [Hot off the Cloud] Monitor VPC Network Address Usage + Aurora Serverless v2 + AWS IQ

Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.

#52 [Hot off the Cloud] Amazon File Cache + EBS Snapshots Archive + EC2 Auto Recovery

#51 AWS-to-go Vol. 4: Programming your infrastructure

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#50 AWS-to-go Vol. 3: Using Virtual Machines EC2

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#49 AWS-to-go Vol. 2: WordPress in Fifteen Minutes - an Example

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#48 AWS-to-go Vol. 1: What's Amazon Web Services?

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#47 Builder's Diary Vol. 1: Successful Cloud Migrations

Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Monika Oblonczek from our partner tecRacer talks about how cloud migrations succeed.

#46 Review: Aurora Serverless v2

I was excited when AWS announced Aurora Serverless at re:Invent 2017. Disappointment followed shortly after. Even after Aurora Serverless became a generally available service in August 2018, it was missing important features like multi-AZ deployments and read replication. Unfortunately, the innovative service never achieved a breakthrough. Therefore, I used Aurora Serverless in exceptional cases only. Four years later, AWS is making a fresh start with Aurora Serverless v2. Reason enough to take ...

#45 The AWS Cookbook

Andreas invited John Culkin and Mike Zazon to talk about their latest book: the AWS Cookbook which includes 70 self-contained recipes to help you creatively solve common AWS challenges you'll encounter on your cloud journey. This show includes the following recipes: * Testing IAM Policies with the IAM Policy Simulator * Automatically Scanning Images in ECR for Security * Redacting PII from text using Amazon Comprehend And don't forget to get the whole book!

#44 AWS Security: Stephen Kuenzli and Andreas Wittig on IAM

Stephen Kuenzli and I lead several cloud migration projects. In this conversation, we shared our learnings focusing on AWS security and IAM (Identity and Access Management). The result is advice and inspiration that will help you in your daily work. Our conversation is available as a video or podcast episode. In the following, you will also find a summary of our discussion.

#43 AWS Architect Mindset

Architecting applications on AWS is challenging. On the one hand, you need a broad understanding of AWS services. On the other hand, you have to know the details as well. In this episode, Michael outlines the mindset you need to build on AWS successfully.

#42 EC2 Checklist: 7 things to do after launching an instance

Launching an EC2 instance takes minutes. Keeping your virtual machines secure and maintaining your VMs is more work. In this episode, I share seven things to do after launching a Linux, Windows, or macOS instance.

#41 Getting Started with Free Templates for AWS CloudFormation

Writing CloudFormation templates from scratch is a lot of work. You will run into many issues along the way: the documentation is incomplete, magic values are required, unsupported combinations of attributes, etc. The feedback cycles are long. In the end, we have to provision real infrastructure to test the template. If you ever created an Elastisearch cluster, you feel the pain. We also observe that AWS architectures follow similar patterns (aka best practices). So why not make a collection of ...

#40 Review: AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)

AWS allows us to run applications distributed across EC2 instances and availability zones. By adding load balancers or message queues to the architecture, we can achieve fault tolerance or high availability. But how can we test that our system can survive faults in reality? Assuming an application has five consumers and seven downstream dependencies. What happens if one of them fails? Are all timeouts configured accurately? Are all applications retrying? What happens if the network is slow? So m...

#39 Serverless in the Enterprise

We coached developers building their first Serverless applications for a large company recently and want to share our learnings and observations with you.

#38 5 good reasons not to get AWS certified

I completed my first AWS certification in 2014: AWS Solutions Architect Associate. During the following years, I accomplished all five associate and professional certificates. However, Michael and I decided not to renew our AWS certifications about a year ago. In the following, I will share five good reasons not to get AWS certified!

#37 How to choose an EBS volume type?

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) provides solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD) for EC2 instances. The virtual machine accesses the persistent storage via the network. In December 2020, AWS announced another volume type called General Purpose SSD (gp3). So now there are three volume types based on SSDs. In this episode, Andreas compares gp2, gp3, and io2 volumes and guides how to choose the volume type that fits best a specific scenario.

#36 re:Invent 2020: Recap of Werner Vogels's Keynote

Werner Vogels's keynote was a blast and definitely the highlight of re:Invent 2020. Michael and I are going through the announced features and services. As usual, we also take a look at the technical details.

#35 3½ ways to workaround missing CloudFormation support

Are you following the Infrastructure as Code approach using CloudFormation? If so, I bet you encountered a situation where CloudFormation misses support for a service's latest features. I run into those issues weekly! So what can we do about it?

#34 A recap of the re:Invent 2020 Keynote with Andy Jassy

Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig from cloudonaut are discussing Andy Jassy's keynote from re:Invent 2020. The focus is on the newly announced services and features: ECS Anywhere, EBS volumes (gp3), Aurora Serverless v3, Lambda Container Support, and many more.