AWS Fundamentals

At the end of last year, we've just started with providing working code with our newsletter issues that you can easily deploy into your own AWS account 🏗️ We'll put a strong focus on this in 2025, as we think content always needs practical hands-on! 🧑💻 👩💻 What you can currently explore & learn about: • Aurora DSQL & Drizzle as an ORM • Feature Flagging via AppConfig • Amazon API Gateway WebSockets • DynamoDB Global Tables • Performance Comparison for Step Function Types • CloudFront Hosting Toolkit • Visual Regression Testing with AWS CloudWatch Synthetics • Serverless Chat App with Amazon Bedrock and OpenAI API • Configuring the CloudWatch Observability Access Manager • AWS Step Functions using the callback pattern If you're interested, consider following our organisation 🪄 https://lnkd.in/eEUBgEn2

If you're interested in how AWS managed to pull off Aurora DSQL, Marc Brooker's re:Invent talk is highly recommended ✨ It doesn't require any previous knowledge about databases but still dives deep into how AWS built and runs Aurora DSQL under the hood. https://lnkd.in/eKb5gvaW

New year - new Bedrock capabilities! 🎆 It's no surprise that AI was one of AWS' main topics at re:invent 2024. We can therefore look forward to some new Amazon Bedrock capabilities in the coming months of 2025. 💡 Most of these new capabilities are already available in preview.

I've you didn't want to discover the limitations of Aurora DSQL by yourself but just get the nice & naughty list, have a read of Benjamen Pyle's nice introductory article 🙌 It's a perfect wrap up! https://lnkd.in/eCeCtGQF

🚂 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗼𝗼 - The next CloudWatch Book update just arrived. We're now also introducing you to 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 🔎 As a quick wrap-up, what you need to know: - 📊 OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework for telemetry data like metrics, logs, and traces. - 🌐 Provides a vendor-agnostic solution for instrumenting applications. - 📈 Enables monitoring and analysis of system performance across environments. - ☁️ AWS supports it through the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). - 🔄 ADOT integrates with CloudWatch and X-Ray. - 🔧 Instrument once and send data to multiple AWS and partner solutions.

In the next newsletter, we're talking about our top CloudWatch launches of this re:invent 🚀 • More Coverage • Easier Correlation • Less silos, more analytics • Deeper distributed tracing • Aided investigations We'll send it out on Sunday 01 pm ⏰ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eKaRd8sw

"How can someone safely run an EC2 instance for some casual learning or testing without overstepping on the free tier and playing hide-and-seek with AWS billing?" 💭 Great question and a quote from a LocalStack article by @harsh_casper I've mentioned LocalStack many times in previous posts, as I think it's great technology - especially for beginners that fear AWS. With it's Docker-based emulator, you to locally test AWS services and integrations like Terraform, CDK, and AWS CLI without even needing an AWS account. https://lnkd.in/gKnxfFFt

re:invent is full of amazing launches, CloudWatch was definitely a huge focus! Some of my highlights: 🧭 Unified Navigation 📊 Use SQL in Logs Insights 🌐 Transaction search with OTEL Spans I'll go through all of them in the next newsletter 💌

Debugging ECS tasks without helpers can be very painful ⚡️ One of these helpers is LocalStack. In conjunction with VS Code you can debug ECS tasks locally and very pleasantly - even with hot-reload! 🔥 If you didn't try it yet, here's an introductory article to get you started by Harsh Bardhan Mishra 🏗️ https://lnkd.in/gAjVzacj

What do you need to know for DevOps in 2024? 💭 🏗️ Yatri's article guides you through the skills, tools, and best practices. From understanding cloud platforms to mastering pipelines, the roadmap outlines everything you should be skilled in 👇 https://lnkd.in/g3Knch5t