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ALB vs. NLB: Which AWS load balancer fits your needs?

Which load balancer fits my workload best? As is often the case, AWS offers more than one solution. Read on to learn whether to use the Application Load Balancer (ALB) or the Network Load Balancer (NLB) to distribute incoming requests among a fleet of v...

Review: App Runner - Simply containers on AWS!

How many options are there for deploying containers on AWS? ECS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, and Fargate, to name a few. And there’s another service I’d like to take a closer look at in this review: AWS App Runner. And I promise you already; it’s worth...

Building multi-architecture container images for AWS Graviton

What do my MacBook Pro and my container workload running on ECS and Fargate have in common? They both run amazingly well on the ARM processor architecture. However, building Docker images for Apple Silicon and AWS Graviton is challenging. Because a cont...

Deprecated Terraform provider template causes `Incompatible provider version` error

Did you recently switch to a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM processor architecture)? The chances are high that you will see an Error: Incompatible provider version when running terraform init the next time. That’s because Hashicorp does not provide the tem...

Security Iceberg: AWS Security Hub the right way

This is a warning about AWS Security Hub. Organizations that use AWS Security Hub to monitor and mitigate risks pay too much attention to the visible part of the AWS security iceberg, namely the findings. These organizations tend to overlook or underest...

Automate CloudFormation StackSets with CloudFormation

CloudFormation StackSets rollout CloudFormation stacks to all or some of your AWS accounts. Also, stack sets allow you to deploy stacks to multiple regions. Therefore, CloudFormation stack sets are a great way to deploy baseline configurations to multip...

Review: Aurora Serverless v2

I was excited when AWS announced Aurora Serverless at re:Invent 2017. Disappointment followed shortly after. Even after Aurora Serverless became a generally available service in August 2018, it missed important features like multi-AZ deployments and rea...

Launching cloudonaut talent

We launched our blog cloudonaut in 2015, and published more than 340 articles and started to record and publish a podcast episodes and videos since then. However, cloudonaut was always a side project for us. Because we would like to put more energy into...

Amazon Web Services in Action 3rd Edition: Early Access

About seven years ago, Michael and I started to write a book about Amazon Web Services. We were beginning our consulting business, and writing a book seemed like an excellent way to demonstrate our expertise. Our publisher Manning launched our book Amaz...

Application Authentication and Authorization on AWS

In this blog post, you will learn to implement authentication and authorization for your own HTTP(S)-based applications on AWS. Most applications offer some functionality only to authenticated clients. A client can be a human or a machine. Humans usuall...