Blogs

CloudFormation Modules

Copying and pasting code or configuration comes with a lot of challenges. Fixing a bug ...

CloudFormation cfn-init pitfall: Auto scaling and throttling error rate exceeded

cfn-init is a little helper to install and configure EC2 instances managed with CloudFormation. Lately, ...

Cloud adaption strategy: event-based data synchronization

Are you building an application for the cloud without the slightest dependency to an on-premises ...

Cleaning up an S3 bucket with the help of Athena

Imagine your basement or attic would provide unlimited capacity for storing stuff. Sounds great? Maybe ...

Cleaning up AMIs

Costs are like fingernails. You have to cut them constantly. When working with AWS, cleaning ...

Choosing the best way to scale EC2 instances on demand

Migrating workloads into the cloud — and specifically to AWS — comes with many advantages. ...

Checklist: Is your application ready for a container cluster?

Is your application ready to run on a container cluster? Use this checklist to find ...

Cheap, Durable, Fast. How to choose an EBS volume type?

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) provides solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD) for ...

Celebrating five years of marbot

Five years ago, we released marbot - ChatOps for AWS . Back in the day, ...

Calling AppSync GraphQL from Lambda

AWS AppSync provides an easy way to run a GraphQL API that triggers AWS Lambda ...