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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.
β±οΈ Reading time: 15 minutes π― Main Learning: A public container on AWS for $7 a month, with no VPC to own. π Blog Post π€ Sponsored by AWS. What we built, what it cost and what we think of it are our own. Hey Reader ππ½ Your first container on ECS comes with homework: a VPC, subnets in two Availability Zones, a load balancer, security groups, a certificate and a task role. Express Mode creates most of it for you now (App Runner's successor, so ECS abstraction number three), but it all lands in...
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD β±οΈ Reading time: 6 minutes π― Main Learning: You cannot skip a level of AWS observability. Structured logs come first, then the AI agent that reads them for you. π Blog Post π Claude Code agent (free gist) π¬ Watch on YouTube Hey Reader ππ½ This week I'm bringing back one of our most-read posts: the 3 levels of AWS observability. A lot of you joined after it went out in May, and the topic fits this week perfectly. Because the real question isn't "do I have logs?" anymore....
β±οΈ Reading time: 11 minutes π― Main Learning: Measure NAT traffic first. CI runners rarely need NAT at all. π Blog Post Hey Reader ππ½ NAT Gateways are one of those things you set up once and never look at again (probably!) π Until NatGateway-Bytes shows up near the top of the bill, filed under EC2-Other - thanks AWS! I think they've made this on purpose to hide these significant networking related costs somewhere and made it hard to reflect on! The hourly fee is predictable, sure. But the...