Blogs

Performance boost and cost savings for DynamoDB

DynamoDB is offering a managed, scalable and highly available database. Compared to SQL databases a ...

Serverless Big Data pipeline on AWS

Lambda is a powerful tool when integrating different services on AWS. During the last months, ...

Send CloudWatch Alarms to Slack with AWS Lambda

As we all know, things go wrong. That’s why monitoring and alerting are essential topics. ...

Selling an AMI and a CloudFormation template as an alternative to SaaS

We have been selling software through AWS Marketplace since 2019. Selling SaaS is very popular ...

Self-hosted GitHub runners on AWS

GitHub Actions became my tool of choice for automating tasks around software development. To execute ...

Security Templates for AWS CloudFormation

This page has moved to GitHub: https://github.com/widdix/aws-cf-templates/tree/master/security

Security Iceberg: AWS Security Hub the right way

This is a warning about AWS Security Hub. Organizations that use AWS Security Hub to ...

Seamless EC2 monitoring with the Unified CloudWatch Agent

Shipping logs and metrics from an EC2 instance to CloudWatch was painful in the past. ...

School’s Out For Summer

Michael and I have just returned from a trip to France where we enjoyed the ...

Show Me Your Architecture Vol. 1: Scanning S3 buckets for malware

Through the AWS documentation, books like AWS in Action or AWS trainings you can gain ...