Aws

SIEM on AWS: What are the Options?

Network Monitoring for Amazon Lambda Applications

Running Splunk Enterprise on the Amazon Cloud: Costs and Considerations

Cloud Migration to AWS: Tools and Best Practices

Implementing Istio in AWS

Monitoring ML Models in AWS

The Danger of Lateral Movement on AWS: 6 Ways to Prevent It

AWS Lambda or AWS Batch: Making the right choice for your workload

This article provide detailed comparison of AWS Lambda and AWS Batch which helps in making choice of AWS Batch or AWS lambda for computation of workloads

Blue-Green Deployment on AWS

Application Security in the AWS Cloud

Accelerate Your Cloud DevOps Workflow with Klotho & Adaptive Architectures

Whether on AWS or Azure, DevOps done right helps you move fast and innovate. But what if DevOps were more accessible? What if you could make big architectural changes in seconds and prototype rapidly, with just one line of code?

Managing Kubernetes RBAC with Amazon IAM

How to Automate AWS IAM Best Practices Using the Principle of Least Privilege

AWS IAM automation with Klotho to help you implement security best practices via Infrastructure-as-Code, and abstracting the complexity of writing least privilege IAM policies away from your developers.

Network Security in the AWS Cloud

Continuous Delivery with EKS and ArgoCD

ArgoCD is a continuous delivery tool used for Kubernetes. I see customers often submit cases where they need to understand why a service went down and who made the changes to this service…

Using Dependency Mapping to Reduce Costs on AWS

Centralized Error Handling in NestJS

A guide on how to handle all errors in a NestJS application.

Cluster-Autoscaler | Amazon EKS

Autoscaling is a function that automatically scales resources up or down to meet inconsistent demands. This is a major Kubernetes function that would otherwise require extensive human resources to…

GitLab CI/CD Pipeline with Terraform

The Best Way to Gain an AWS Gold Jacket (12x certifications)

A roadmap for achieving and maintaining the 12 certificates that AWS currently offers. It’s a long and demanding road, but that doesn’t have to discourage you.

How to install MongoDB in AWS EC2

AWS does support NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB and DocumentDB but not MongoDB. So if you would like to host your MongoDB to the AWS cloud but do not want to migrate to another DB, you may install…

Amazon Aurora Serverless (v1 vs v2): What's the Difference?

Learn the difference between Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 and v2.

Everything You Need to Know About AWS Lambda Layers

AWS SQS CLI commands with examples

The AWS SQS is the first service AWS offered to the public. It is a stable, robust, fast, and scalable service widely used in asynchronous systems. In this tutorial I will show with examples the AWC CLI commands to manipulate with SQS.

How to Setup AWS Client VPN

How to configure and connect in the AWS Client VPN using the OpenVPN client

Solution for Amazon S3 Error “AccessControlListNotSupported”

Here’s how I resolved the “AccessControlListNotSupported” error in Amazon S3

The Cost of the Cloud: Here's What You Need to Know about AWS Pricing

Adding an SSL Certificate to an Application Load Balancer in AWS

AWS Certificate Manager(ACM) is a service that allows you to create, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS…

Triggering Lambda to Send Messages to SQS

How to Manage Your CIAM

How to Deploy a Node.js application in AWS EC2

Node.js, AWS, EC2, NginX as a reverse-proxy and more

How to Configure AWS SFTP Server with AWS S3

A tutorial on configuring AWS SFTP Server with AWS S3

Configure Nginx Web Server using AWS EC2 User Data

How to create an Amazon EC2 instance with an Nginx web server — all while using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to launch it.

Hosting a static website with S3 & CloudFront

3 Types of Cloud Services and APIs you Can Use to Join the Video Revolution

DevSecOps in AWS

How to Create an AWS Application Load Balancer for Your EC2 Instances

A load balancer will make it possible to distribute the workload across multiple EC2 instances. A client application will connect to the load balancer without knowing which EC2 instance will handle…

RBAC vs ABAC with Amazon Cognito

3 Ways To Optimize AWS Costs For a New Project

Rename and Move S3 Object using Python Boto3

Moving Object in S3 using Python

Using Layers on AWS Lambda — Node.js

Simple walkthrough of creating and using layers on Lambda function.

Invoking AWS Lambda with gRPC Protobuf

A detailed guide on how to use AWS Lambda with gRPC Protobufs.

How to Change the Node Exporter Port if It is Already in Use

The Node Exporter is a service from Prometheus that allows for the extraction of node information via an Application Program Interface (API). If you are reading this then you probably are well aware…

A Simple Example of “Lambda-backed Custom Resource” in AWS CloudFormation

The minimal working snippets of the custom resource function.

How to Dump and Restore Databases with mysqldump in an RDS Instance in AWS

A guide on dumping and restoring databases with mysqldump in an RDS instance in AWS.

Serverless Proxy with AWS: How It Works

AWS Cloud Practitioner Study Notes 2021

What you need to know to successfully pass your certification.

How to Send an Email Notification Using AWS Lambda

A guide to Amazon SNS.

How to Copy a File Using AWS Lambda

A guide on copying from source S3 to destination S3.

How to Run a PySpark Application on AWS Lambda

A proof of concept to see if we can run Spark on AWS Lambda.

How to Deploy a Set of EC2 Instances behind an ALB Using Terraform

Extract Zip Files From and Back to the S3 Bucket using Node.js

A lambda function to unzip files from an S3 bucket.

AWS SNS Events: SNS to Lambda vs SNS to SQS to Lambda

3 Common AWS Lambda Errors and Workarounds for Them

Caching with ElastiCache(Redis) and Spring Boot

Postman: Automate Generating Amazon Cognito Token

Let's Make Sense of Amazon EKS VPC Networking

Exploring the EKS VPC networking setup.

3 Tier Architecture on AWS using EC2 or Serverless

How To Automate Application Deployments Using Terraform and AWS CodeDeploy

AWS S3: Different Types of Storage Types Available in S3

AWS S3: Generating Logs in S3 Bucket

Using Jenkins for File Upload to AWS S3: Step-by-Step Guide

How to Upload Any Type of Binary File to S3 via API Gateway

Upload any type of file to the S3 bucket using Lambda proxy integration with API Gateway in Python

AWS Icons for Designs and Presentations (Great AWS Resource)

A Great AWS Resource for designers

How to Setup AWS Amplify Infrastructure with Terraform

A short tutorial on setting up the Terraform infrastructure required for a static web app built with React. The article focuses on the Terraform code and settings needed to set up an AWS Amplify project for continuous deployment. The AWS Amplify project makes use of CodeCommit as a source repository.

Choosing between AWS PrivateLink and Transit Gateway

When connecting your AWS environment to a SaaS solution in another AWS account, what do you say if you get asked whether you want to use AWS PrivateLink, Transit Gateway (TGW), or VPC Peering to…

AWS Lambda Testing and Debugging using IntelliJ, AWS SAM, and Docker

AWS Lambda is very popular nowadays. It is easy to develop and deploy without any hassle with providing and maintaining infrastructure. But sometimes it is difficult to test and debug your Lambda code locally on a PC. Here I will show you how to configure your PC to be able to test and debug AWS Lambda.

How to Change Sharding of Existing Indices on an Elasticsearch Cluster

AWS IAM Role Chaining

Use an IAM role to assume another IAM role

AWS ECS Cluster using the EC2 Launch Type

The diagram below shows you what exactly I will create in this tutorial. I will create a cluster in one region spreading instances across three availability zones. All instances will be isolated…

How to Push a Docker Image to the AWS ECR

In this tutorial, I will show how to push an image to AWS. All the steps shown below were performed on Ubuntu 18 with Docker version 19.03.6 and AWS CLI version 2 installed.

AWS TypeScript CDK and Step Functions

How to deploy a TypeScript step function composed of 3 lambdas.

AWS TypeScript CDK and Lambda

This quick tutorial will show the steps for deploying a TypeScript lambda that is deployed behind API Gateway and can be used to calculate the sum of 2 numbers. This is an introductory tutorial and…

Deploy from Gitlab to AWS EC2

Gitlab CI pipeline for AWS EC2 deployment

How to Use the CloudFormation Sub Function

Since I started using AWS CloudFormation 4 years ago, I have seen many people using the Fn::Join command to merge information such as static text and variables in their CloudFormation templates. While this works, it can get messy and difficult to understand when things get complicated. Fn::Sub helps simplify our template definitions.

AWS CLI Commands Cheatsheet

All the generic AWS CLI Commands you need to know — MacOS Specific

Trigger Lambda On S3 Events Using CDK

Setup AWS CDK In 2 Minutes

In 2 Minutes — Setup AWS CDK for You AWS Cloud Projects

The Simple Way to Connect AWS EC2 Instance with Your Domain Name

Explore the easiest way to bind EC2 IP with your Domain Name to host your content.

Build a Docker Image and publish it to AWS ECR using Github Actions

CI/CD Cloud Image Build on Github to AWS Registry

How Much Does AWS Really Cost?

Typical AWS pricing for a MERN stack example

Configuring AWS ALB with CloudFront — You are Probably Doing It Wrong

Not passing an auth token header from CloudFront to AWS Application Load Balancer can be a huge mistake

The Difference Between Elasticsearch, Open Distro, and OpenSearch

How to Deploy React App with S3 and CloudFront (Updated for 2021)

Use S3 to Store Images From Your Application

A walkthrough of how to use S3 as image storage for a NodeJS/Express application.

Hands-on CI/CD for Spring Boot applications using GitHub Actions and AWS

Want to build a full CI/CD Pipeline? Well, you’re at the right place!

How to set up simple CI/CD using AWS CodePipeline with GitHub

A step-by-step example demonstrating how to deploy a static single page website to AWS S3

AWS EC2 Terraform Module Utilizing the aws_ami Data Source

Building a Terraform module that builds a bare-bones EC2 application server, qualifies for the AWS free-tier, and auto-assigns the ID of a registered AMI.

What is Lambda Throttling and How to Fix it?

How to Mock AWS S3 in a Jest (Unit) Test

Upgrade AWS EKS Cluster with Zero Downtime

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes service offering from AWS.It provides high availability and scalability for the Control Plane to run across multiple…

Connect to a Private Instance Using a Bastion Host Within a Custom VPC

JSON Logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights

Excel at using CloudWatch Logs Insights by sending in structured JSON logs.

Run Kubernetes Using Minikube Cluster on The AWS Cloud

How to run Kubernetes using Minikube Cluster on the AWS Cloud.

Localstack Resource Creation on Initialization

This tutorial explains how to create the resources on the Localstack initialization.

How to Upload Files to AWS S3 in React

In 2 different ways

AWS SES: How to send a mail with an attachment in Node.js

AWS Step Function Tips and Tricks

4 hacks to help construct workflows

Using Node.js to Display Images in a Private AWS S3 Bucket

Bypassing the File System and Using Streams

Send Email Attachments with AWS Lambda + AWS Simple Email Service (SES)

How to send email attachments with AWS Lambda and AWS Simple Email Service (SES)

Using Node.js + S3 to Create, Delete, List Buckets and Upload, List Objects- Part 2

Use AWS Lambda + Python to Rotate IAM Access Keys Automatically

Set it and forget it

Unit Testing of AWS Lambda Functions (Node.js) using Mocha and Chai

S3 Events to Lambda vs S3 Events to SQS/SNS to Lambda

An AWS System Design Comparison

Keep Your AWS Lambda Functions Warm and Avoid Cold Starts

How to Easily Delete an S3 Bucket with Millions of Files in it

Quick automation tips for clearing out your AWS S3 buckets.

How to Upload Files to Amazon S3 using Node.js

AWS S3 CLI Cheatsheet

All the S3 CLI high-level commands you need to know — MacOS Specific