Best of AWS — March 2025

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Build an Enterprise Nextjs Rental App | AWS, EC2, Cognito, Shadcn, RDS, S3, Node, React
This guide walks you through building a scalable, enterprise-grade rental application using Nextjs for the frontend and Node.js for the backend, fully deployed on AWS. The application features user authentication with AWS Cognito, property search with Mapbox integration, and comprehensive dashboards for both tenants and managers. Key technologies include Redux Toolkit, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn, and AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and API Gateway. Detailed instructions and code samples are provided for each step to help you understand and implement the entire setup.
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YouTube·1y
Stop Using Redis. Use Open Source Instead
Redis, a widely-used in-memory database, recently changed its license to a more restrictive model, leading to the creation of an open-source alternative, Valkey. Valkey has garnered support from tech giants like AWS, Oracle, and Google, promising to maintain the free and open-source nature of the original Redis. The post explains how to switch from Redis to Valkey and compares their features, performance, and pricing.
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Migrating to Valkey from Redis
The post discusses migrating from Redis to Valkey, highlighting key differences such as licensing changes, performance improvements, and new features in Valkey 8.0. It covers the similarities in basic features, improvements in multi-threading, RDMA support, and cost advantages. Detailed migration steps are provided, along with the recommendation to test applications thoroughly before making the switch.
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David Heinemeier Hansson·1y
Motivating the S3 exit with five thousand dollars a day
Basecamp and HEY are planning to end their AWS S3 contract, which currently costs $1.5 million per year, by summer. They are switching to Pure Storage, which provides 18 petabytes of NVMe storage with S3-compatible API. This transition is crucial to avoid the potential $5,000 daily cost of using S3 post-contract.
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Tinybird·1y
Run Tinybird on your own infrastructure
Tinybird Self-Managed is now available in beta, allowing users to deploy Tinybird's real-time data platform on their own AWS infrastructure, with support for GCP and Azure coming soon. This version provides greater control over data environments, integrating with private data sources and optimizing hardware resources as needed. Future updates will include expanded cloud support, automated upgrades, and advanced monitoring.
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romanfgh's public Squad·1y
How Is This Even Possible
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Daily Dose of Data Science | Avi Chawla | Substack·1y
Building an MCP Server
AWS offers a tool called Amazon Q Developer, which simplifies the creation and maintenance of documentation for developers. The post also provides a comprehensive guide on understanding, building, and integrating an MCP (Message Control Protocol) server to streamline interactions between agents and tools/APIs. Key steps include defining the MCP server, exposing tools via decorators and docstrings, and integrating with the Cursor IDE to use these tools seamlessly.
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freeCodeCamp·1y
How to Connect Your AWS EC2 Instance to VS Code
Learn how to create and connect an AWS EC2 instance to VS Code, including setting up SSH for secure access and installing necessary tools like Java and Maven for web development.
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Deepgram·1y
Introducing Nova-3 Medical: The Future of AI-Powered Medical Transcription
Nova-3 Medical, the latest from Deepgram, offers best-in-class medical speech-to-text capabilities. The model provides unmatched accuracy in healthcare settings, capturing vital details like medication names and diagnostic terms while filtering out irrelevant noise. It is HIPAA-compliant and supports flexible customization with Keyterm Prompting. Nova-3 Medical outperforms its competitors significantly in terms of Word Error Rate (WER) and Keyterm Error Rate (KER). It integrates seamlessly with existing healthcare infrastructures and is optimized for performance and scale.
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Preview: Amazon S3 Tables in DuckDB
DuckDB announces a new preview feature that supports Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, enabling easy connection to Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse. It allows DuckDB users to read and query Iceberg tables directly from these platforms. The guide provides detailed steps for installing necessary extensions from the core_nightly repository and setting up S3 table buckets. The feature is currently experimental and a stable release is expected later in the year.
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TechWorld with Nana·1y
Most Detailed DevOps Roadmap | Weekly Breakdown
This post provides an in-depth weekly breakdown roadmap for learning DevOps. It covers essential topics and skills required for mastering DevOps, such as Linux, version control with Git, building CICD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes. The guide also includes the use of cloud services like AWS, and tools for automation such as Terraform and Ansible, aiming to help professionals enhance their skills efficiently within limited time frames.
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Programmers are also human·1y
Next-door 10x engineer // PART 2
A tech-savvy individual, who has isolated himself at a data center for two months, engages in a humorous conversation about new projects, using different technologies like Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Linux, and Rust. Various tech concepts, anime-inspired resumes, cross-compiling from punch cards, and AI awareness are discussed in lighthearted yet chaotic interactions.
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Laravel News·1y
AWS Developer Center for PHP
The AWS Developer Center for PHP is a comprehensive resource for PHP developers, offering tools, documentation, and sample code to help run PHP applications on AWS. It includes the AWS SDK for PHP, AWS Laravel SDK plugin, and AWS IDE toolkits for VS Code and IntelliJ IDEA to assist in writing, debugging, and deploying code.
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Community Picks·1y
27 tips: How to reduce cloud costs
This post offers strategies for reducing AWS cloud costs, focusing on EC2 instances, databases, and data transfer. It includes general tips such as using spot instances, automated scaling, and optimizing database and server configurations. AWS-specific recommendations like using Reserved Instances or newer EC2 instance types are also provided, along with Kubernetes cost optimization techniques such as consolidating pods and autoscaling cluster nodes.
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YouTube·1y
Build & Deploy a Production-Ready Patient Management System with Microservices: Java Spring Boot AWS
This course provides a hands-on experience in building an enterprise-level patient management system using Java Spring Boot and Docker. It covers essential aspects such as microservices architecture, API gateways, load balancing, REST and gRPC for communication, user authentication, and deployment using AWS. Each module builds incrementally, offering a comprehensive understanding of these technologies. Basic knowledge in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, databases, and Docker is recommended.
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HashiCorp·1y
Disaster recovery strategies with Terraform
Learn how Terraform can play a critical role in disaster recovery (DR) strategies by simplifying infrastructure provisioning, reducing costs, and ensuring consistency. Explore different DR strategies, such as Backup & Data Recovery, Pilot Light, Active/Passive, and Multi-Region Active/Active, and how Terraform's automation, scalability, and flexibility improve DR execution. A practical example demonstrates Terraform's capabilities in an AWS environment, showing how to conduct and revert region failovers seamlessly.
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Watercooler·1y
The cloud is a harsh mistress
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