Episode Archive
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#27 Record AWS API calls to improve IAM Policies
Have you ever looked at an IAM policy and wondered: Is it really necessary to grant access to this specific action? Or do you need to know which API calls a legacy or 3rd party application is ac...
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#26 Review: AWS App Mesh
It seems to me like everyone is talking about service meshes these days - definetly a hot topic in the world of containers and microservices. A service mesh promises reducing latency, increasing...
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#25 CloudFormation's unknown features
I was recently invited to a CloudFormation workshop with a group of early CloudFormation users. I soon realized that the group had a good understanding of the basics, so I started to introduce m...
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#24 Storage on AWS
Choosing storage service is critical when designing a cloud architecture. Read on to learn about the characteristics, limitations, typical use cases, and a decision tree for the following option...
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#23 ECS Deployment Options
In this episode, Michael invited a guest: [Philipp Garbe](https://twitter.com/pgarbe). Philipp is an AWS Container Hero, Working in the Cloud, and we hop...
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#22 Messaging on AWS
In this episode, Michael compares the available messaging options on AWS.
The goal of messaging is to decouple the producers of messages from consumers. The messaging pattern allows us t...
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#21 Review: API Gateway HTTP APIs
AWS offers different types of API gateways as a managed service. This review takes a closer look at the new service API Gateway HTTP APIs announced in December 2019 and generally since availabl...
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#20 End-user monitoring of your website with CloudWatch Synthetics
There are countless reasons why your website is not working as your users expect. From a technical point of view, you can monitor your load balancers, your web servers, and your database. But wh...
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#19 Scaling Container Clusters on AWS: ECS and EKS
Containers are a powerful tool to streamline your development and deployment process. However, a container cluster - no matter if you are using ECS (Elastic Container Service), EKS (Elastic Kube...
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#18 CloudFormation vs. Terraform
The most reliable way to automate creating, updating, and deleting your cloud resources is to describe the target state of your infrastructure and use a tool to apply it to the current state of ...