Best of AWS — April 2024

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   DEV·2y

   Deploying a Full Stack AWS Architecture Using Terraform: Ensuring High Availability in AWS

   Learn how to deploy a full stack AWS architecture using Terraform. Ensure high availability by configuring DNS with AWS Route 53, implementing load balancing with AWS ALB, securing transmission with AWS Certificate Manager, protecting your application with AWS WAF, achieving elasticity with auto scaling, enabling persistent storage across instances with Amazon EFS, setting up a highly available database with Amazon RDS, monitoring and alerting with AWS CloudWatch, streamlining development workflow with a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, and scripting infrastructure creation with Terraform.

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   Lobsters·2y

   How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

   Learn how an empty S3 bucket can result in a skyrocketing AWS bill due to unauthorized requests. Find out why a popular open-source tool caused the influx of requests and how you can enhance the security of your S3 bucket.

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   DEV·2y

   Different approaches to reduce AWS S3 file upload time using AWS-SDK v3 in NodeJS.

   Learn different approaches to reduce AWS S3 file upload time using AWS-SDK v3 in NodeJS. Includes buffered upload, multipart upload, and file upload as a stream.

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   AWS Tip·2y

   Multi-stage CI/CD Pipeline

   This post provides a guide on setting up a multi-stage CI/CD pipeline for a food waste management system. It covers topics such as EC2 instance creation, NGINX server configuration, setting up target groups and load balancers, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Git-Secret, Snyk, Route53 hosted zone, connecting Namecheap domain to Route53, Certificate Manager, and application demo.

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   Community Picks·2y

   Begin — The cloud platform for Functional Web Apps

   Begin is a cloud platform that allows users to build resilient, fast, and simple web apps. It offers simplified AWS deployment, open source tools, and a powerful declarative deployment system. It also provides an alternative AWS client called aws-lite.

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   Hacker News·2y

   kaytu-io/kaytu: The Kaytu CLI helps you save on cloud costs by finding the perfect server sizes. Kaytu analyzes historical usage and provides tailored recommendations, ensuring you only pay for the re

   Kaytu CLI helps reduce cloud costs by recommending optimal workload configurations based on actual usage. It is easy to use and customizable. Kaytu works with AWS CLI to gather metrics and respects user privacy.

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   KDnuggets·2y

   Advance Your Tech Career with These 3 Popular Certificates

   Advance your tech career by earning popular certifications such as Business Intelligence, AWS Cloud Solutions Architect, and Azure Developer.

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   AWS Tip·2y

   BUILDING A CI/CD PIPELINE USING GITHUB ACTIONS: BUILD AND DEPLOY DOCKERIZED APPS ON AWS

   Learn how to build a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to deploy dockerized apps on AWS. The article covers creating a workflow file, creating a personal access token, creating secrets and variables, finalizing the workflow file, testing the workflow, and deploying to AWS.

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   AWS Tip·2y

   Building a REST API with AWS Lambda and API Gateway

   Learn how to build a REST API with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Discover the difference between Cold Start and Warm Start in AWS Lambda and how to mitigate the Cold Start issue.

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