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New CloudFormation Template - Backing up DynamoDB the easy way
DynamoDB is an easy-to-use NoSQL database available only on AWS. It comes with many useful features such: Time-to-live for items Secondary indexes Scalable read and write throughput Streams that contain all changes of a table Unfortunately, there is n...
New CloudFormation Template - Operational Alerts and new Docs
Today, we release v3.1.x of our Free Templates for AWS CloudFormation. The highlights of the release are: You can now receive alerts if the infrastructure is not working with the oprations/alert.yaml template. Existing templates now have a ParentAlertS...
New CloudFormation Templates - ECS Cluster & Service, legacy VPC wrapper, automated tests
We released v3 of our free and open source CloudFormation templates. This release brings: new templates for containerized workload with ECS new templates to wrap an existing VPC into the format that is needed by all our templates test suite that we run...
Free ebook: Exploring Cloud Computing
Exploring Cloud Computing is a collection of hand-picked chapters presenting five topics that will give you insights into the world of cloud computing. Michael and I, authors of Amazon Web Services in Action, selected these particular topics allowing yo...
New CloudFormation Template - Authentication Proxy using your GitHub Organization and YAML
We released one new CloudFormation template and updated all of our templates to make use of the new YAML format, cross-stack references, and simplified substitution. It was never easier to use our templates: cross-stack references are used to link depen...
New CloudFormation Templates - VPC bastion host, Jenkins, Security AWS Config
We released four new CloudFormation templates and updated the other templates to work together with the new SSH bastion host. Using our Infrastructure as Code templates will help you to bootstrap common setups on Amazon Web Services (AWS) within minutes...
New Online Training - Navigating the AWS Management Console
I’m excited to announce that our new Pluralsight course was released: Navigating the AWS Management Console. Pluralsight is the on-demand technology learning platform you count on to stay relevant, with tools that measure your skills and solve your prob...
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...
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...
New Online Training - Automating AWS with CloudFormation
Michael and I have joined Pluralsight as authors for online trainings. I have worked on a course about Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation during the last two months. I’m excited to announce that my first course was released: Automating AWS with ...
