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AWS for the Real World
We teach AWS for the real world - not for certifications. Join more than 10,500 developers learning how to build real-world applications on AWS.
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 10 minutes π― Main Learning: Wildcards come from the tooling, not from laziness. Put least privilege at the account level and let an agent write the policies. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ I have shipped my share of s3:* at unusual hours and told myself I would refactor it later - which obviously never happened π So when someone on r/aws asked why developers can't write least privilege policies and put it down to laziness, I was excited to read through all...
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 11 minutes π― Main Learning: Most teams should stay serverless. EKS only pays off at real scale. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½For years we told everyone the same thing: don't run Kubernetes! And we meant it. Running k8s yourself is a second full-time job. Cluster upgrades, etcd backups, some networking plugin that falls over on a Tuesday and nobody can say why.We're serverless people through and through. Lambda first, a queue behind it, scale to zero, go...
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 12 minutes π― Main Learning: Most of the complaints in the viral "leaving AWS" post are skill issues β but egress pricing is a fair hit. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½Recently, a post with the title "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left" hit 810 upvotes on Hacker News last week and went pretty viral with it.I read it twice before forming an opinion. My honest take: most of the complaints are skill issues! π€·βοΈNevertheless, the post is well written and...