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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...

Integrate SQS and Lambda: serverless architecture for asynchronous workloads

The Gold Standard for modern cloud-native applications is a serverless architecture. AWS Lambda allows you to implement scalable and fault tolerant applications without the need of a single virtual machine. A serverless infrastructure based on AWS Lambd...

Free ebook: Cloud Native Applications

Cloud Native Applications is a collection of hand-picked chapters presenting five topics that will give you insights into the world of cloud computing. Get a free copy now! Andreas and I, authors of Amazon Web Services in Action, selected these specif...

Pro bono: non-profit project wanted

Andreas and I would like to give away one month of our consulting time to a non-profit project for free. We can help you with anything related to AWS, DevOps, Software Development (Node.js, Java, Scala, Erlang). Are you a researcher trying to analyze...

DIY AWS Security Review

A regular security review of your AWS account can reveal security issues with little effort. There are some very easy things you can automatically check with the help of the AWS Command Line Interface that have a big impact. Limit network traffic from 0...

AWS Monthly Review - April 2016

AWS is innovating fast. This is a summary of what happened during past month. Announcements and News CloudFormation adds support for EC2 Dedicated Hosts, improves handling of ECS and allows you to specify a name for a Lambda function. (Official Announc...

Avoid security credentials on GitHub

Your AWS account is a valuable target for bad guys. With access to your security credentials an attacker is potential able to steal sensitive data, utilize resources on your costs, or sabotage your infrastructure. Two years ago AWS and their customers o...

Free ebook: Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud

DZone published a new guide: Building and Deploying Applications on the Cloud. It contains an article from Michael and me: Building Blocks for Highly Available Systems on AWS. The ebook contains the following articles: Fullstack Engineering in the Age...

Antivirus for S3 Buckets

Many of our AWS consultancy clients ask me: “How can we make sure that the files that we store on S3 are virus free?” As always, our clients are looking for simple and cheap solutions. That’s why we developed Antivirus for Amazon S3. Every file that i...

Manage AWS EC2 SSH access with IAM

AWS can deploy one EC2 Key Pair to your EC2 instance. But this approach has several disadvantages: You can only use one key per EC2 instance. But you shouldn’t share keys between users. Access to EC2 instances via SSH can not be restricted to specific ...