Lambda vs. Fargate: The Cost of Running 24/7
A quick comparison of AWS Lambda and Fargate to see which option is the more affordable for running regularly occurring, long-running processes.
Caleb Gosnell |
April 27, 2022
Connect GitHub Actions and AWS using OIDC
With OpenID Connect (OIDC) Identity Provider for GitHub Actions, GitHub Actions simply and conveniently interacts with AWS. In this post, you’ll see an example Terraform configuration for setting up the authentication and an Actions workflow that uses it.
Caleb Gosnell |
March 30, 2022
The Importance of Precise Error Messages
Using the S3 Presigned URLs and Presigned Posts features almost had the Six Feet Up team stumped, but after some troubleshooting, uploads were a breeze.
Dave O'Connor |
December 15, 2021
Secrets of Building Python Container Images for AWS Lambda
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a handy and scalable tool used to run code on demand. Today, developers can use container images for Lambda code — a helpful way to run much more complex code in a familiar package. However, there are some non-obvious differences from normal containers which can make building Python app images for AWS Lambda somewhat frustrating.
Peter Hull |
August 12, 2021
Improve and Automate Plone Caching with collective.cloudfront
collective.cloudfront is a Plone add-on designed to watch for Purge notifications from plone.app.caching and send the corresponding invalidation requests to an instance of Amazon’s CloudFront.
Rob McBroom |
June 24, 2021
Serverless Django: Exploring the State of the Art on AWS
As deployment options for web apps have multiplied in the past few years, AWS Lambda continues to stand out as a powerful, simple way to run a web app with minimal maintenance and cost — if there is low traffic.
Shane Hathaway |
April 12, 2021
Dump Your Servers for AWS Fargate
Containers are speeding up the deployment process, but are your physical servers holding you back? It's time to become truly serverless.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 5, 2020
How to start with Machine Learning
Machine Learning initiatives can be powerful when you need to analyze large amounts of data, especially when it makes sense to analyze data points together to gain greater insights or find patterns...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
June 3, 2019
Quick Intro to Cloud Custodian
The Open Source Cloud Custodian can keep your cloud clean and tidy, here's how to get started.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 4, 2019
Top 10 News from Amazon re:Invent 2018
Amazon’s re:Invent conference was impressive this year again with a whole slew of future-oriented talks and over 40,000 expected attendees. Here’s a re:cap of the most notable re:Invent 2018 announcements...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
December 12, 2018
Alexa Enhancements, Autonomous Traffic at AI Summit
Amazon hosted an AI Summit as part of their re:Invent event. Geared towards a more general group of people interested in Artificial Intelligence, the Summit strove to explore forward thinking topics such as Alexa Enhancements and Mixed Autonomous Traffic...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
December 7, 2018
How to Build AWS VPCs with SaltStack Formulas
Use SaltStack to automatically build cloud infrastructure on your behalf...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
September 19, 2017
Getting Started with AWS VPCs from the Console and CLI
How to customize the layout of your VPC to meet your applications needs from a security and availability standpoint...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
September 14, 2017
Automating Mundane Tasks with Boto3
Boto3 is a complete open source library for talking to the AWS API. It can be used for automating mundane tasks like cleaning up unused AWS resources...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 22, 2017
Hidden Features via AWS CLI
The Amazon Web Service Command Line Interface expands the options for a user interacting with the AWS...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
January 24, 2017
How AWS Lambda Simplifies Software Development
Lambda is Amazon Web Services' server-less infrastructure. It makes it possible to run small tasks that respond to various kinds of events without actually running any servers...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
July 29, 2016