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19 Nov

The Future of Payment Management: Exploring the New Billing Console

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As businesses continue to migrate to cloud services, managing costs effectively becomes a crucial aspect of operations. The new Billing Console is designed to provide a comprehensive solution for payment management, offering advanced tools and features that align with business goals and optimize cloud expenditure. This article explores the strategic cost management in the cloud, how to optimize cloud expenditure, the advanced billing features and tools available, navigation of the AWS Billing Console, and future trends in payment management. Key Takeaways The AWS Billing Conductor allows for alignment of billing and business logic, offering a customizable billing relationship between businesses…

17 Nov

Globally Replicated Services for the Rest of Us

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After reading endless serverless horror stories, you decided to deploy your application on the internet's current darling, Hetzner. But now, your server is stuck in one location while your users are spread all over the world, suffering from terrible latency. What do you do? Let me introduce you to geolocation DNS-based routing! The Problem: Global Latency When hosting applications in a single region, users from other parts of the world experience higher latency. For example, if your server is in Germany, users from Australia might experience delays of 300ms or more. This latency can significantly impact user experience, especially for…

17 Nov

Introduction to Big Data Analysis

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Data refers to raw, unprocessed facts, statistics, or information collected for reference, analysis, and processing. They are of different formats: Structured Data: Organized in a defined format, such as rows and columns in a database Unstructured Data: No predefined structure, such as text, emails, images, videos, and social media posts. (Note: If 20 percent of the data available to enterprises is structured data, the other 80 percent is unstructured.) Semi-Structured Data: A hybrid of structured and unstructured data, like JSON or XML documents that have tags or markers to organize the data but don’t fit into a traditional database schema.…

06 Nov

AWS Conceptual guidelines

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To get a good understanding of AWS, you don’t need to master every service. Focus on a core set of services that cover the main areas of cloud computing, as this will give you a solid foundation to build from. Here’s a breakdown of key AWS services and concepts to focus on for a strong understanding: Core Compute Services EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): Learn how to launch, configure, and manage virtual machines. Elastic Load Balancer (ELB): Understand load balancing and how to distribute traffic across multiple instances. Auto Scaling: Explore automatic scaling based on demand to maintain application availability. Lambda:…

01 Nov

Best Practices for Monitoring AWS Services

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Monitoring and observability are essential for maintaining the performance, reliability, and security of AWS services. As cloud resources and applications grow in complexity, a robust AWS monitoring strategy becomes increasingly important. This article outlines best practices for monitoring AWS services, ensuring that you can effectively track the health of your cloud infrastructure and respond promptly to any issues that arise. Key Takeaways Establish a comprehensive monitoring framework that includes AWS native tools like CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and X-Ray, as well as third-party integrations. Define clear monitoring goals and priorities that align with your business objectives and operational requirements. Ensure your monitoring…

28 Oct

Effortless Debugging: AWS CDK TypeScript Projects in VSCode

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Debugging Lambda functions should be easy, right? You want to debug as you develop, using a standard editor (VSCode), a popular IaC framework (AWS CDK), and a widely adopted language (TypeScript). But it is never quite that easy. One of the main challenges to wider serverless adoption is the developer experience itself. Setting up an effective debugging environment for Lambda functions can be challenging, especially with the variety of tools, frameworks, and configurations available. If you're using the same stack as I am, this guide will help you set up a smooth, flexible debugging environment so you can iterate through…

26 Oct

Why We Migrated Our WordPress Site from Hostinger to AWS LightSail

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For over three years, our company’s WordPress blog was hosted on Hostinger. However, we recently decided to migrate to AWS LightSail to leverage its reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Although AWS EC2 could also host WordPress, it requires extensive manual configuration, which we opted to avoid at this stage. In this blog, I’ll walk you through how to migrate an existing WordPress site to AWS LightSail or set up a new one, detailing each step for a smooth transition. Step 1: Create a new AWS account, if you have sign in to AWS console Step 2: Search LightSail Step 3: Create…

22 Oct

Amazon S3 Bucket | AWS PART 1

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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - Store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a scalable object storage service provided by AWS (Amazon Web Services) designed for storing and retrieving any amount of data at any time from anywhere on the web. Here’s a brief overview of its key features and components. Getting started with Amazon S3 You can get started with Amazon S3 by working with buckets and objects. A bucket is a container for objects. An object is a file and any metadata that describes that file. To store an object…

19 Oct

AWS Security Automation with Lambda

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As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, the need for effective security measures becomes paramount. With the rise of cyber threats and the complexity of managing cloud environments, security automation has emerged as a critical strategy. AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service, offers a powerful solution for automating security tasks and enhancing the security posture of applications deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This article explores how AWS Lambda can be leveraged for security automation, its benefits, use cases, and best practices and also an intriguing real-world scenario from Our Anonymous AWS Security Specialist on “The Rise of the Automated…

18 Oct

Unlocking the Power of AWS Console to Code: A Game-Changer for DevOps and Infrastructure as code (IaC)

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AWS is announcing the general availability of Console to Code, powered by Amazon Q Developer. Console to Code makes it simple, fast, and cost-effective to move from prototyping in the AWS Management Console to building code for production deployments. Customers can generate code for their console actions in their preferred format with a single click. The generated code helps customers get started and bootstrap their automation pipelines for tasks. Console to Code makes it easy to convert actions performed in the console into reusable code, using the language of your choice. Customers use the AWS Management Console to learn and…