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DynamoDB pitfall: limited throughout due to hot partitions

Is your application suffering from throttled or even rejected requests from DynamoDB? Even if you ...

How to move a DynamoDB table to another region or account?

How to move data from one DynamoDB table to another? For example, when it becomes ...

Using DynamoDB Entity Store for cleaner TypeScript code

DynamoDB is a cloud-hosted NoSQL database from Amazon Web Services (AWS). DynamoDB is popular for ...

Download YouTube videos with AWS Lambda and store them on S3

Recently, I was faced with the challenge to download videos from YouTube and store them ...

Does your VPC endpoint allow access to half of the Internet?

Are you using VPC endpoints to enable private connections between your VPC and AWS services? ...

Dockerizing Ruby on Rails

Did you dockerize your Ruby on Rails application already? You definitely should! Read on to ...

Dockerizing legacy applications with confd

A legacy application typically uses files to read configuration parameters. But working with configuration files ...

DNSSEC with Route 53: Protecting the core of the Internet

The Internet relies on DNS. This makes it all the more important to do everything ...

DIY AWS Security Review

A regular security review of your AWS account can reveal security issues with little effort. ...

Discovering Machine Learning with Iris flower data set

Today I want you to show how you can use the Amazon Machine Learning service ...