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Building Reliable Messaging Patterns in AWS with SQS and SNS

Dec 20, 202411 min read

Failover in Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Architectures

Dec 18, 20248 min read

Building Intelligent Agentic Applications with Amazon Bedrock and Nova

What Are Agentic AI Architectures? I won't waste your time with a long, fluffy introduction about how AI is changing the world. Let's get straight to the point: agentic AI architectures are fundamentally different from the prompt-response pattern you...

Mar 7, 202514 min read

Relational Databases on AWS: Comparing RDS and Aurora

Apr 23, 202410 min read

Containers on AWS: Comparing ECS and EKS

Apr 22, 20249 min read

Monitoring and Troubleshooting on AWS: CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Beyond

As an AWS user, I'm sure you know that monitoring and troubleshooting are essential for keeping your applications running smoothly. After all, you can't fix what you can't see. But with the sheer number of services and tools available on AWS, it can ...

Mar 23, 202411 min read

Security in AWS: IAM Best Practices and Advanced Techniques

AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) is the backbone of any AWS security strategy. It's the service that controls who can access your AWS resources and what actions they can perform. Get IAM right, and you're well on your way to a secure cloud de...

Mar 20, 202416 min read

Disaster Recovery Strategies on AWS: Ensuring Business Continuity

We're now living in the world of immediate and always-on stuff, where even a few minutes of downtime can be a disaster for businesses. Customers expect 24/7 availability, and any interruption in service can lead to lost revenue, damaged reputation, a...

Mar 15, 202411 min read

Understanding Amazon S3 Pricing

What is Amazon S3 Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service by AWS that can store any kind of information. S3 is known for its durability, availability, and scalability, and the fact that all of these features come out of the bo...

Feb 1, 20245 min read

Understanding AWS Lambda Pricing

In this article, we'll dive deep into the pricing structure of AWS Lambda, breaking down its components, and providing examples to help you understand how costs are calculated. We'll also discuss the AWS Lambda Free Tier and offer practical tips for ...

Jan 29, 20244 min read

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity on AWS

Imagine this scenario: You successfully replicated your data to another region, so if your AWS region fails you can still access the data. However, all your servers are still down! You'd like to continue operating even in the event of a disaster. Dis...

Dec 5, 202314 min read

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