AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD โฑ๏ธ Reading time: 6 minutes ๐ฏ Main Learning: Understanding Amazon Aurora DSQL pricing structure including DPUs, storage costs, and free tier ๐ Blog Post ๐ฅ YouTube Video Hey Reader ๐๐ฝin December 2024 AWS announced the preview of the serverless database DSQL and just in May it was generally available. With the announcement of the general availability, the pricing was also announced. The pricing is not super straightforward, so let's dive into it. Click to watch this video...
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AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD โฑ๏ธ Reading time: 8 minutes ๐ฏ Main Learning: Building & Testing Lambda@Edge Functions with LocalStack ๐ Blog Post Hey Reader ๐๐ฝwe 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...
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AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD โฑ๏ธ Reading time: 8 minutes ๐ฏ Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront ๐ Blog Post ๐ป GitHub Repository Hey Reader ๐๐ฝAfter 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 agoย โขย 7 min read
Hey Reader ๐๐ฝ 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...
4 months agoย โขย 8 min read
Newsletter Header AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD โฑ๏ธ Reading time: 8 minutes ๐ Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront โ๏ธ Blog Post ๐ป GitHub Repository Hey Reader ๐๐ฝ this newsletter is about ๐ฅ AI ๐ค 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 agoย โขย 12 min read
Newsletter Header AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD โฑ๏ธ Reading time: 8 minutes ๐ Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront โ๏ธ Blog Post ๐ป GitHub Repository Hey Reader ๐๐ฝ 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...
5 months agoย โขย 8 min read
โ Reading time: 8 minutes ๐ Main Learning: Federated Authentication with Cognito ๐พ GitHub Repository โ๏ธ Read the Full Post Online ๐ Hey Reader ๐๐ฝ 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! โจ), improving user experience and likely increasing conversion rates. ๐ With OAuth 2.0 and Google as an identity provider, we...
6 months agoย โขย 3 min read
Hey Reader ๐๐ฝ This issue will be about a recent real-world experience that just went off right with the new year! ๐ Once upon a time... ๐ฆ 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 didnโt...
7 months agoย โขย 5 min read
โ Reading time: 13 minutes ๐ Main Learning: How to Run Apps on Fargate via ECS ๐พ GitHub Repository โ๏ธ Read the Full Post Online ๐ Hey Reader ๐๐ฝ 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. Youโll often find Lambda as the primary choice, as itโs where you donโt need to manage any infrastructure. You only need to bring your code - itโs Serverless โก๏ธ. However, more options can be...
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