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Serverless: Invalidating a DynamoDB Cache

A cache in front of DynamoDB is boosting performance and saving costs. Especially true for read-intensive and spiky workloads. Why? Please have a look at one of my recent articles: Performance boost and cost savings for DynamoDB. Caching itself is easy:...

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AWS Weekly 2016-26

A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, June 27 AWS announced a new region: Asia Pacific (Mumbai). AWS Compute Blog explains how to Create and Deploy a Chat Bot to AWS Lambda in Five Minutes. Tuesday, June 28 AWS announ...

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The Life of a Serverless Microservice on AWS

In this post, I will demonstrate how you can develop, test, deploy and operate a production-ready Serverless Microservice using the AWS ecosystem. The combination of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway allows us to operate a REST endpoint without the need...

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Setup Amazon EFS in 60 seconds

AWS announced Amazon EFS, a scalable network file system, at re:Invent 2014 almost two years ago. Finally, EFS is now generally available and production-ready in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland). Are you interested in giving EFS...

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AWS Weekly 2016-25

A quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, June 20 AWS announced EC2 is now supporting SQL Server 2016. AWS Blog published a guest post: Zynga Gets in the Game with Amazon Aurora. Software Engineering Daily is discussing Se...

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Performance boost and cost savings for DynamoDB

DynamoDB is offering a managed, scalable and highly available database. Compared to SQL databases a big advantage of DynamoDB is the ability to scale the read and write throughput. This allows you to scale the database along with your application layer,...

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AWS Weekly 2016-24

Quick summary of what happened in the AWS universe last week. Monday, June 13 Cloud Academy explained Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Amazon Kinesis Firehose Tuesday, June 14 AWS SES Blog announced Amazon SES Now Supports Email Headers in No...

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Using S3 for static web hosting

Hosting a static website is possible with S3, an AWS service that offers unlimited cloud storage capacity. You are able to deliver static content like HTML, CSS, images (e.g., PNG and JPG), audio or videos. You can’t execute server-side scripts like PHP...

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6 tips and tricks for AWS command-line ninjas

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) allows you to manage AWS services. Using the CLI from your terminal interactively allows you to half-automate tasks and frees you from logging into the AWS Management Console. In addition integrating the CLI into she...

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AWS Monthly Review - May 2016

AWS is innovating fast. This is a summary of what happened during past month. Announcements and News AWS Certificate Manager allows to generate SSL/TLS certificates in the following regions: US East (N.Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon...

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