#review | Review of AWS services (1)

From time to time, we are reviewing newish AWS services. To do so, we are diving into the technical details and analyze the service maturity.

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...

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...

Review: AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) – Chaos as a Service?

AWS allows us to run applications distributed across EC2 instances and availability zones. By adding load balancers or message queues to the architecture, we can achieve fault tolerance or high availability. But how can we test that our system can survi...

Review: AWS App Mesh – A service mesh for EC2, ECS, and EKS

It seems to me like everyone is talking about service meshes these days - definitely a hot topic in the world of containers and microservices. A service mesh promises reducing latency, increasing observability, and simplifying security within microservi...

Review: Amazon Connect – A Programmable Telephone System

Do you provide services to consumer or business clients? Which channels do you provide for clients to get support, leave feedback, or let off frustration? Amazon Connect provides a contact center solution in the cloud. Your clients contact you via phone...

Review: AWS Global Accelerator - Improving Latency and Design for Failure

The Cloud is all about networking. AWS introduced Global Accelerator at re:Invent in 2018. A year after that, it is about time to review the service. AWS Global Accelerator makes use of Amazon’s worldwide infrastructure and is designed to improve the pe...

Review: Amazon Aurora Serverless - A cloud-native and production-ready relational database?

It was never easier to scale your compute layer. EC2 Auto Scaling, Fargate, and Lambda enable horizontal scaling. But how do you scale your database? Use a NoSQL database like DynamoDB, one could say. But what if you don’t want to miss all the advantage...

Review: AWS Backup - A centralized place for managing backups?

AWS Backup aims to become a centralized place for managing backups. If possible, AWS Backup uses existing features to create backups (e.g., RDS snapshots). Sometimes, AWS Backup is the only way to create a backup (e.g., EFS file systems). Do you prefe...