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AWS for the Real World

by Tobi & Sandro

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🧱 AWS CDK Core Concepts: Constructs, Stacks, and Apps

This is not properly displayed? Read all of our issues online! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ We hope you're having an amazing week! After writing about Terraform and the Serverless Framework let's tackle Sandro's favorite framework for IAC, which is the AWS Cloud Development Kit - the CDK. What is the CDK? The CDK was launched back in July 2019, which makes it one of the younger Infrastructure-as-Code tools out there. It is a so-called componentized for provisioning your resources. Check out this article...
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5 days agoΒ β€’Β 3 min read
Serverless Framework

A Frictionless Way of Building Serverless Applications on AWS ⚑️

This is not properly displayed? Read all of our issues online! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ Let's start with the obvious: We love AWS Lambda! πŸ’›β€‹β€‹And we're pretty sure you too, regardless of whether you're a long-term AWS Fundamentals subscriber or just recently joined. πŸ™ That's why we want to dedicate this newsletter to the fastest IaC to launch Serverless applications on AWS: The Serverless Framework Citing DataDog's The State of Serverless: Serverless Framework is the most popular IaC tool for managing...
20 days agoΒ β€’Β 4 min read

πŸ’œ Terraform - The World's Most Used Iac Tool

This is not properly displayed? Read all of our issues online! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ In this issue, we will explore the basics of Terraform, an open-source Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool, and how it can simplify and automate the provisioning and management of your cloud infrastructure. Join us as we uncover the key concepts and best practices to help you get started with Terraform and unlock its full potential. P.S.: If you make it through this issue, we'll farewell you with some fascinating...
about 1 month agoΒ β€’Β 8 min read

πŸ“š AWS Essentials: The Rise of Infrastructure as Code

This is not properly displayed? Read all of our issues online! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ now that we have completed most of the main services in our newsletter we are jumping on another important chapter in Cloud Computing: Infrastructure as Code. Knowing cloud services is one thing. Implementing applications is another thing. You won't see a real production workload (hopefully) that wasn't provisioned without any infrastructure as a code tool. This newsletter is all about the history and different...
about 2 months agoΒ β€’Β 4 min read

Supercharge Your Software Delivery with AWS CI/CD πŸ› οΈ

This is not properly displayed? Here is the online version! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ A continuous integration and delivery system (CI/CD) is a must-have for developers because it automates the process of merging code changes, running tests, and deploying applications, ensuring faster and more reliable software releases. It also helps identify and fix issues early on, leading to improved collaboration and overall development efficiency. In this issue, we want to talk about AWS CodeBuild & CodePipeline,...
2 months agoΒ β€’Β 4 min read

πŸ—οΈ Setting Up Your Containerized Applications with ECS

This is not properly displayed? Here is the online version! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader! πŸ‘‹ As you probably already know, we're an enormous fan of AWS Lambda. In our opinion, it's the fastest way of getting started with a new project; in most cases, you don't even need to worry about costs. Especially in the beginning. However, container runtimes such as Amazon ECS are and will continue to be significant in numerous organizations. This is due to valid reasons. If you're new to cloud computing, familiarizing...
3 months agoΒ β€’Β 5 min read

πŸš€ Dive into AWS CloudWatch & πŸ“– Upgrade Alert: New Fundamentals Book Version!

This is not properly displayed? Here is the online version! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ new week, new AWS newsletter. This week with exciting news πŸ’– TL;DR of This Issue We launch a free update of AWS for the Real World Soon. Check out our scheduled Product Hunt Launch. Let's talk about CloudWatch πŸ“ Book Update First, let's talk about our book update! AWS for the Real World will get a massive free update. What will be included in the update? Typos &Grammar - we heard you and we fixed them. Diagrams &...
3 months agoΒ β€’Β 5 min read

πŸ“¨ SNS Unpacked: From Pub/Sub Patterns to Pricing!

Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ This is another issue that is all about messaging systems and patterns. It is the last one of this series. After that, we continue with more networking services πŸͺ This time we talk about the service Simple Notification Service or better known as SNS πŸ“¨ To get you excited, here is one upfront guessing question: What's the subscription limit per topic? πŸ€” Scroll down to find the answer. But now let's get into the overview of this issue: Introduction to SNS The Publish/Subscribe...
4 months agoΒ β€’Β 3 min read

πŸ”§ Amazon SQS: The Fully-Managed Message Queue Service You Need to Know About

This is not properly displayed? Here is the online version! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ new week, new AWS Newsletter πŸ’Œ We just checked our recent newsletters and saw that we've missed two services in the event-driven category, SQS, and SNS. Since both of these services are essential in working with AWS we're adding them now! This week we start with SQS. The Simple Queue Service. Can you guess in which year SQS was launched? πŸ€”Hint: AWS launched its first service back in 2004. We'll tell you at the end of...
4 months agoΒ β€’Β 4 min read

Amazon VPC and the Building Blocks of AWS Networking 🧱

This is not properly displayed? Here is the online version! πŸ’‘ Hi Reader πŸ‘‹πŸ½ today's service of the week is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, better known as VPC 🌀️. What's Amazon VPC and why does it matter❓ In a nutshell: because it's a powerful tool that allows you to create private & secure virtual networks for your AWS resources. It provides isolation and protection, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of your instances. πŸ” In this issue, we'll explore: important networking...
5 months agoΒ β€’Β 5 min read
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