Recent podcast episodes
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#29 Unboxing Amazon Timestream
In this episode, Michael unboxes Amazon Timestream for us. A recently launched time-series database. Andreas asks questions like: What is Amazon Timestream? How does it work? What are typical us...
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#28 How to choose a container registry?
Are you using a container registry already? Andreas Wittig and Michael Hausenblas discuss different scenarios and options. The episode focuses on ECR including recent announcements and upcoming ...
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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...