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Introduction We can create AWS resources directly from web management console. This may be ok when dealing with a very simple PoC type of projects. But imagine you have 50 projects and 4 environments per project. How are you going to provision your infrastructure? Doing this via management console will be a very tedious and … Read more
Introduction AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) handles the complexity of creating, storing, and renewing public and private SSL/TLS X.509 certificates and keys that protect your AWS websites and applications. A very common use case comes to mind where “we have a web application which uses an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)”. To encrypt traffic between ELB and … Read more
Introduction One of the biggest challenges for websites and web applications is latency. Latency can be managed by reducing the distance between users and the application. AWS CloudFront is a Global Content Delivery Network (CDN) designed to reduce latency and reduce application load. CloudFront works by edging contents to locations around the world that are … Read more
Introduction In previous post, we started with basics of AWS Route 53 and learnt how to register a domain and use it with a simple static website which is actually an S3 bucket configured to serve static contents. We can visit the S3 based website on the following URL: http://awsclouddemos.com/ To recap previous post, we … Read more
Introduction AWS budgets alert you when your balance exceeds a certain amount. AWS Budgets allows you to set custom budgets to track your cost and usage from the simplest to the most complex use cases. With AWS Budgets, you can choose to be alerted by email or SNS notification when actual or forecasted cost and … Read more
Introduction AWS DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service all managed by AWS. As per the official website “Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. DynamoDB offers built-in security, continuous backups, automated multi-region replication, in-memory caching, and data export tools”. In this post, … Read more
Introduction We can publish and subscribe messages on AWS IoT core by establishing a connection to it. There are multiple options available for publishing and subscribing messages with AWS IoT Core. The message broker supports the use of the MQTT protocol to publish and subscribe and the HTTPS protocol to publish. You can check this … Read more
Introduction Internet of things (IoT) is pretty ambiguous. Any phrase with the word “things” in it is inevitably somewhat ambiguous, right? IoT is a popular and rich topic and depending on the view there is a lot which falls under this term. However, in this post, we will keep it to its core, just a … Read more
Introduction In previous post, we learned that Kubernetes Persistent Volume Subsystem decouples data from application pods and containers and abstracts implementation details. The main components are as follows: PersistentVolume (expose external storage to a PV) PersistentVolumeClaim (a request for persistent volume) StorageClasses (for dynamic provisioning) We then used PersistentVolume and PersistentVolumeClaim in a static provisioning … Read more
Introduction In this post, we will learn how persistence storage objects in kubernetes provide an easy way to meet storage requirements of statefull applications. In previous post, we learned how to use volume plugins for external storage and we used an AWS EBS volume for this purpose. However, we used AWS EBS volume settings directly … Read more