AWS CloudWatch Basics (.NET and NodeJS Applications)

Introduction AWS CloudWatch is Amazon’s monitoring service which provides logging and alarm functionalities and used with almost every AWS service available. Monitoring helps us drive to improvements of the experience for our stakeholders and architecture. CloudWatch monitors AWS resources using matrices, alarms and alerts. Using the matrices, you can have alarms fire (e.g. CPU utilization … Read more

.NET on AWS – Data Persistence using RDS

Introduction In previous Post on this topic, we started by publishing a .NET Core API to AWS Lambda function. Today, we will extend the API and add more functionality to it (database operations) and then redeploy it to AWS Lambda and see how it goes. Database Setup We’ll be using Postgres database (AWS RDS Service) … Read more

.NET On AWS – Basics

Introduction .NET platform can be used to build variety of different applications. You may be developing .NET applications for on-prem or azure cloud solutions. But you may not know that AWS is supporting and investing in .NET development for more than a decade. In this post, we will learn the basics of .NET development and … Read more

AWS API Gateway Basics

Introduction APIs are mechanism that facilitates two software components communicating with each other. APIs act as a front door for applications to access data, business logic or functionality from backend services. AWS API Gateway is a service that facilitates the creation, publishing, maintenance, monitoring and security of your APIs at any scale. It is a … Read more

AWS Lambda Basics – Writing Serverless Code

Introduction There are four key capabilities for a service or platform to be serverless: No server management. Flexible Scaling. High availability (fault tolerence) No idle capacity In this post, we will learn the basics of AWS Lambda and how you can use it for different use cases with ease. This will be an introduction post, … Read more

AWS Cognito Basics – User Pools

Introduction Amazon Cognito is a robust user directory service that handles user registration, authentication, account recovery & other operations for easy and fast web/mobile application development. This service helps you manage your authentication, authorization and user management functions so that you can focus on your application management rather than managing users and authentication. AWS Cognito … Read more

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) Exam Journey and Tips – Part 3

Introduction Welcome back, here we are with final part of AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) Exam Journey and Tips. In previous two posts, I covered the Background and Preparation parts. This post will be focused on topics like exam registration and taking the exam along with some more tips and experiences. If you are new … Read more