AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD ⏱️ Reading time: 8 minutes 🎯 Main Learning: How to automatically generate professional AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q with MCP servers 📝 Blog Post Hey Reader 👋🏽Let’s talk about saving money on AWS. Cost surprises are no fun—especially for folks just starting out. AWS pricing looks easy at first, but there are so many little things that can trip you up if you’re not careful.Today I’m breaking down a few simple tips that actually work for beginners. Let’s jump...
25 days ago • 16 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD ⏱️ Reading time: 8 minutes 🎯 Main Learning: How to automatically generate professional AWS architecture diagrams using Amazon Q with MCP servers 📝 Blog Post Hey Reader 👋🏽Ever tried drawing an AWS architecture diagram and ended up spending hours just lining up boxes? Yeah, same here. That’s why I’m pretty pumped about Amazon Q’s new diagram feature. You just describe your stack, and—boom—instant architecture diagram. It’s wild how much time this might save.Let’s take a...
about 1 month ago • 10 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD ⏱️ Reading time: 6 minutes 🎯 Main Learning: Understanding Amazon Aurora DSQL pricing structure including DPUs, storage costs, and free tier 📝 Blog Post 🎥 YouTube Video Hey Reader 👋🏽in 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...
3 months ago • 5 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD ⏱️ Reading time: 8 minutes 🎯 Main Learning: Building & Testing Lambda@Edge Functions with LocalStack 📝 Blog Post Hey Reader 👋🏽we 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...
4 months ago • 10 min read
AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD ⏱️ Reading time: 8 minutes 🎯 Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront 📝 Blog Post 💻 GitHub Repository Hey Reader 👋🏽After 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...
4 months ago • 7 min read
Hey Reader 👋🏽 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...
5 months ago • 8 min read
Newsletter Header AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD ⏱️ Reading time: 8 minutes 🎓 Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront ✍️ Blog Post 💻 GitHub Repository Hey Reader 👋🏽 this newsletter is about 🥁 AI 🤖 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...
5 months ago • 12 min read
Newsletter Header AWS FOR THE REAL WORLD ⏱️ Reading time: 8 minutes 🎓 Main Learning: Migrating from Edgio to CloudFront ✍️ Blog Post 💻 GitHub Repository Hey Reader 👋🏽 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...
6 months ago • 8 min read
⌛ Reading time: 8 minutes 🎓 Main Learning: Federated Authentication with Cognito 👾 GitHub Repository ✍️ Read the Full Post Online 🔗 Hey Reader 👋🏽 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! ✨), improving user experience and likely increasing conversion rates. 📈 With OAuth 2.0 and Google as an identity provider, we...
7 months ago • 3 min read
