Managing Your AWS Credentials
Given that hardcoding is a bad idea, how should you manage your AWS keys? AWS gives you three options, which we analyze in this post.
Media Giant Migrates From Bare Metal to AWS
A Chariot team led by Eric Snyder migrates a local media giant’s data to the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Comparing Infrastructure Tools: A First Look at the AWS Cloud Development Kit
This post is a head-to-head comparison between CDK, Terraform, and CFNDSL, using a common task: managing the users and their roles in your AWS accounts.
Picking the Right AWS Compute Infrastructure
The correct compute platform depends on the workload that you’re running. This post contains criteria for picking the right environment from the choices that AWS gives you.
Philly ETE 2019 – Aaron Mulder – Zero to Serverless in 45 Minutes
Abstract So I have this production AngularJS on Java/Spring REST app. It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. I mean, how many Internet Dog Years ago was that? It would work better as a cloud-native app — faster to load, cheaper to run, more reliable, let them do all the maintenance work, HTTPS out … Read More
Philly ETE 2019 – Dan Koch – Getting Out of Cloud Jail
Abstract AWS has made our life easier. And it has made scaling easier – but too often, when you go to scale, it’s a matter of reaching for the credit card to add more, more, more. Soon, you’re in Cloud Jail. Learn how we dealt with this at TUNE, and how we ultimately did a … Read More
Philly ETE 2019 – Keith Gregory – So You Want to Move to the AWS Cloud….
Abstract In 2009, Amazon Web Services was simple: EC2 for compute, S3 for storage. In 2019, it’s far more complex: well over 100 services, covering the entire software life-cycle. This talk is intended for the person who is looking at AWS as an alternative to running in a data center, and focuses on the important … Read More
Philly ETE 2019 – Keith Gregory – So you want to migrate to AWS
In 2009, Amazon Web Services was simple: EC2 for compute, S3 for storage. In 2019, it’s far more complex: well over 100 services, covering the entire software life-cycle. This talk is intended for the person who is looking at AWS as an alternative to running in a data center, and focuses on the important topics and strategies for a successful migration.
Production iOS Push Notifications with AWS Simple Notification Service
In this post we’ll be setting up Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle the delivery of push notifications to the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) and eventually to your users. In order to use AWS to push notifications to your users devices you’ll configure three different AWS Services; Cognito, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and … Read More
Terraform
At the time of this writing the main AWS landing page lists twenty product categories, under which is an overwhelming number of resources to be deployed and configured. All resources can be created and configured via the collection of AWS consoles (the web UIs) and while this is probably the simplest option it does not … Read More