10th anniversary - our story

Today, we -the Wittig brothers- are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our company. Here we want to tell our story and say thank you! PrehistoryIn 2012, Michael and I joined the same team at Tullius Walden Bank with the mission to build a trading plat...

How to move a DynamoDB table to another region or account?

How to move data from one DynamoDB table to another? For example, when it becomes necessary to move a DynamoDB table to another account or region. In the following blog post, I will discuss three different options to move DynamoDB tables by backing up a...

Optional DependsOn with CloudFormation: Metadata to the rescue

When working with AWS CloudFormation, sometimes it’s necessary to incorporate optional dependencies into your template. Recently, I encountered a situation where I had to build a single CloudFormation template to manage both a VPC and an application—tho...

Are you missing an AWS resource in Terraform? Try awscc provider!

There is nothing more frustrating than running into gaps in resource coverage when working with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation. Not being able to use the latest features to solve a challenge is demotivating. Recently, I di...

Review: Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3

Imagine users uploading attachments directly to S3 to share them with other users. Or partners uploading data to your S3 bucket to trigger business processes that download directly from S3. What could go wrong? A file uploaded to S3 could be infected. M...

Deploying Self-Hosted Runners for GitHub Enterprise Server on AWS: A Guide to Efficient CI/CD

GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform provided by GitHub. It allows you to automate your software development workflows by building, testing, and deploying code directly from your GitHub repository. Many c...

Updated CloudFormation vs Terraform in 2022

The most reliable way to automate creating, updating, and deleting your cloud resources is to describe the target state of your infrastructure and use a tool to apply it to the current state of your infrastructure (see Understanding Infrastructure as Co...

Updated Amazon ECR vs. Docker Hub vs. GitHub Container Registry

Have you worked with a Linux package manager like apt or yum before? A container registry is similar, but instead of packages, it distributes container images. A container registry is a crucial aspect of a containerized workflow and infrastructure. This...

Updated Managing application secrets: SSM Parameter Store vs. Secrets Manager

Many applications interact with external or internal systems like databases or REST APIs. When your application talks to another system, it usually authenticates with a secret, e.g., an API key, username + password, or a certificate. This leads to the q...

S3 Virus Scan and Malware Protection Step-by-Step Guide 🦠✋

[cloudonaut podcast] Vol. 92 - The Cloud Control API is catching up!

[cloudonaut podcast] Vol. 91 - Cloudflare R2 Same Same But Different

[cloudonaut podcast] Vol. 90

#092 The Cloud Control API came a long way

Learn how to work around missing resources in Terraform by using the Cloud Control API and the awscc Terraform provider. Also, Michael shares what he learned from migrating a workload from Amazon Linux 2 to Amazon Linux 2023. Last but not least, Andreas...

#091 Cloudflare R2 Same Same But Different

Look behind the curtains of releasing two new products: bucketAV for Cloudflare R2 and attachmentAV Virus and Malware Scan API. Andreas and Michael discuss what they learned about Cloudflare, S3, and API Gateway. Besides that, the brothers rant about ne...