DynamoDB, AWS’s fast, flexible NoSQL serverless database service that provides single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, has many useful built-in features. In this article we are going to look at how the Time to Live (TTL) feature can be enable… Read More ›
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AWS CDK Costs to Slack
Want to know what your daily spend is on AWS but don’t want to have to log into the console every day? Aws costs to slack is what you need! This project is built from the simple Lambda Scheduler and… Read More ›
AWS CDK Lambda Scheduler Write to DynamoDB
The following stack will be a simple example of a triggered schedular that will call a lambda function that writes to a DynamoDB table. The stack, seen below, contains 3 main elements. Starting at the bottom; The first element comes… Read More ›
Why go serverless?
Introduction Serverless computing is a new way of building and running applications. It promises to reduce cost, improve speed and simplify maintenance, making it easier for developers to build better apps faster. Reduce cost and increase speed There are a… Read More ›
Out with the old in with the new
This is still in progress but the new menu service is now in place and the old title bar is gone and has started to be replaced by a more modern looking sidebar.
ezConsole – The AWS Desktop Management Tool
So, some actual progress on productizing my AWS Desktop Management tool called ezConsole this week. For a little while now I have had the task on my ClickUp board to build out the infrastructure deployment pipeline for the landing page…. Read More ›
Full Ahead ezConsole
The collection of applications I have been working on recently is coming together to create an application called ezConsole. ezConsole will be a very handy desktop application specifically designed to work with AWS. ezConsole can be thought of as a… Read More ›
Setting Minimum Protocol Version for HttpsRedirect in CDK
To change the minimum protocol version when using Https redirect route 53 patterns you must first find the RedirectDistribution and then in that the defaultChild then you can add a poroperty override for the DistributionConfig.ViewerCertificate.MinimumProtocolVersion property, setting the tls version…. Read More ›
AWS Stack Manager App
The AWS Stack Manager app is almost ready. The only major work left is user management so I can start distributing the app and manage app licences and some UI/UX styling. This is a guide to using this simple AWS… Read More ›
AWS CDK Fargate Schedular Write to DynamoDB
In this post I’ll show you how to create a scheduled Fargate task, in this case a locally developed node js Docker container that can push items to DynamoDB on a 1-minute timer. Checkout the Video version A simpler architecture… Read More ›