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...
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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...
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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...
2 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 months agoΒ β’Β 7 min read
β Reading time: 12 minutes π Main Learning: CloudWatch Launches re:invent 2024 βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ re:invent happened already two weeks ago and there were some amazing launches π CloudWatch got a lot of love at that re:invent. This is why we are showing you our top CloudWatch launches for this year. We've worked through all of them, tried to get them working with our example application of the CloudWatch Book, and are now busy updating the book βπ½. Let's dive into...
5 months agoΒ β’Β 9 min read
β Reading time: 14 minutes π Main Learning: Feature Flags with AWS AppConfig πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ There's no other field where it's so common to have "a small side-project" like in the software industry. Even though it's possible to build things as quickly as ever before due to cloud providers, tools, platforms, and AI, many indie founders (and also large enterprises) tend to fall into the same trap: they tend to build features that users do not...
5 months agoΒ β’Β 6 min read
β Reading time: 17 minutes π Main Learning: Observability at Scale with Open-Source πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ Welcome to this edition of the AWS Fundamentals newsletter! In this issue, we're focusing on observability with open-source tools on AWS. As most of you already know, we can use Amazon CloudWatch and X-Ray to monitor our application from every angle. But what if we want to hybrid setup where we run certain parts of our ecosystem outside of AWS?...
6 months agoΒ β’Β 6 min read