Writing your first CloudFormation Template
If you’ve spent any time in the land of DevOps over the last few years you will have no doubt heard of the term “Infrastructure as Code”… The idea of defining your infrastructure environment in source code so that it’s easier to track changes and manage versions over time.
An Introduction to AWS CloudFormation
If you’ve spent any time in the land of DevOps over the last few years you will have no doubt heard of the term “Infrastructure as Code”… The idea of defining your infrastructure environment in source code so that it’s easier to track changes and manage versions over time.
Yet another serverless solution for invoking AWS Lambda at a sub-minute frequency
Triggering a Lambda function by an EventBridge Events rule can be used as a serverless replacement of cron job. The highest frequency of it is one invocation per minute so that it cannot be used directly if you need to schedule a Lambda function more frequently. In this post, I’ll demonstrate another serverless solution of scheduling a Lambda function at a sub-minute frequency using Amazon SQS.
Cloud Lego with the AWS CDK
Learn how the AWS CDK empowers development teams to write infrastructure-as-code using the general purpose programming languages they already know.
Amazon AppFlow with Salesforce in Action
Amazon AppFlow is an AWS serverless solution that eases data transfer work from major SaaS products. This post discusses how it’s been used with Salesforce in a client project.
Zero downtime RDS Migration
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups.
AWS Glue Local Development with Docker and Visual Studio Code
As described in the product page, AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. For development, a development endpoint is recommended but it can be costly, inconvenient or unavailable (for Glue 2.0). The AWS Glue team published a Docker image that includes the AWS Glue binaries and all the dependencies packaged together. After inspecting it, I find some modifications are necessary in order to build a development environment on it. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to build development environments for AWS Glue 1.0 and 2.0 using the Docker image and the Visual Studio Code Remote – Containers extension.
Deliver the modern experiences your customers need with Amazon Connect
Anyone whose been following the Cevo blog for a while knows that we are fans of the Amazon Connect product. Originally launched back in 2017, Amazon Connect is a contact centre as a service (CCaS) solution that offers easy, self-service configuration and enables dynamic, personal, and natural customer engagement at scale. However, like any AWS service, it’s not without its pitfalls and problems as shown in our review of the product last year (https://cevo.com.au/post/the-good-bad-ugly-amazon-connect/). Well, it’s another year, and the product team has been hard at work adding new features and addressing customer feedback. In this article, we will take a look at what’s been changed/added to the service over the past 12 months as well as take a look at what’s in store for the product going forwards.
Adding Authorization to a GraphQL API
Authorization is the mechanism that controls who can do what on which resource in an application and it is a critical part of an application. In this post, I’ll be illustrating how to set up authorization in a GraphQL API using a custom directive and Oso, an open-source authorization library.
Cross Account RDS Snapshotting Automation Leveraging Pilot Light DR Strategy
An automated solution in a cost effective way to have RDS snapshots shared on a timed schedule with different AWS accounts in order to centrally manage the data also in a different location. The solution mainly caters for standing an infrastructure and bringing the system back to continue the operations for the business continuity within the approved RPO and RTO when any of the disaster events kicks in.