AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 8 minutes π― Main Learning: Building & Testing Lambda@Edge Functions with LocalStack π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½we hope you have a great week! End of last year the CDN Edgeio was deprecated. Tobi's client company used it and the only thing that saved his day was CloudFront and Lambda@Edge Functions. But we realized that testing them and executing them locally is a pain. When we started to look for a solution we found Localstack - let's see how we can use...
2 months agoΒ β’Β 10 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 8 minutes π― Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront π Blog Post π» GitHub Repository Hey Reader ππ½After a busy week in Prague, both Tobi and I (Sandro) delivered our talks and we got quite some good feedback! We will share them in a separate newsletter soon.But this newsletter is all about accessing S3 within a VPC via Gateway endpoints vs. Internet routing. We know these networking issues are not the fanciest onces (looking at you AI) but...
3 months agoΒ β’Β 7 min read
Hey Reader ππ½ We've been talking a lot about how great SST's switch to Pulumi was, and many of you have asked us how to use plain Pulumi directly. So today, we're sharing our quick guide to Pulumi - a tool we're really excited about since it lets us build infrastructure with languages we already know and love. No more learning weird syntax - just TypeScript, Python, or whatever we're comfortable with! We spent the last few days playing with it, and here's what we've learned... AWS Community...
3 months agoΒ β’Β 8 min read
Newsletter Header AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 8 minutes π Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront βοΈ Blog Post π» GitHub Repository Hey Reader ππ½ this newsletter is about π₯ AI π€ We haven't talked too much about AI, Bedrock, MCPs, and agents yet - so we want to change that. Please let us know if this it interests you to build AI on AWS, or if you are much more interested on hands-on fundamentals services. Should we focus on AI Services? Yes, I want to learn to build...
4 months agoΒ β’Β 12 min read
Newsletter Header AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 8 minutes π Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront βοΈ Blog Post π» GitHub Repository Hey Reader ππ½ This newsletter edition is all about saving Lambda costs. I (Sandro is writing this one) was recently involved in saving Lambda costs for a client. So, I thought writing down my thought process was a good idea. Have fun with it! If you need help saving AWS costs or improving your infrastructure, just reply to this email! Now...
4 months agoΒ β’Β 8 min read
β Reading time: 8 minutes π Main Learning: Federated Authentication with Cognito πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ Federated Authentication lets users sign in to your app using their existing accounts - most prominently Google! This approach eliminates the need to create and remember new credentials (which most users are very happy for! β¨), improving user experience and likely increasing conversion rates. π With OAuth 2.0 and Google as an identity provider, we...
5 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Hey Reader ππ½ This issue will be about a recent real-world experience that just went off right with the new year! π Once upon a time... π¦ It all started in September 2024 where Edgio, the main CDN provider we used for one of my large enterprise projects, filed for bankruptcy. Edgio was natively integrated into Azure, allowing you to use it without leaving the Azure ecosystem. It also featured a powerful rules engine (allowing for all kinds of conditions, redirects and rewrites) and didnβt...
6 months agoΒ β’Β 5 min read
β Reading time: 13 minutes π Main Learning: How to Run Apps on Fargate via ECS πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ When building applications on AWS, we need to run our code somewhere: a computation service. There are a lot of well-known and mature computation services on AWS. Youβll often find Lambda as the primary choice, as itβs where you donβt need to manage any infrastructure. You only need to bring your code - itβs Serverless β‘οΈ. However, more options can be...
6 months agoΒ β’Β 5 min read
β Reading time: 10 minutes π Main Learning: Running Postgres on Aurora DSQL with Drizzle πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ With re:Invent 2024, AWS finally came up with an answer to what many people (including us) asked for years: "What if there were something like DynamoDB but for SQL?" With Amazon Aurora DSQL, this is finally possible. Itβs not just a βscales-to-zeroβ solution like Aurora Serverless V2. It is a true distributed, serverless, pay-per-use...
7 months agoΒ β’Β 7 min read
