AWS Can Be Confusing: Where should I run my crap?

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an amazing technology allowing for incredible scaling and expandability thanks to its open source nature, but it can be complicated to set up, and especially to maintain in the long run. Amazon EKS works to solve a lot of the complicated parts of running a Kubernetes cluster by delivering a managed control plane, across multiple data centers for high availability and taking care of availability and scaling, as well as automatically detecting and replacing unhealthy control plane nodes. EKS gives you the flexibility of Kubernetes, without necessarily requiring an entire infrastructure team to manage your cluster. It also makes it much easier to integrate and authenticate with other AWS services.

#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 279 social mentions

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Amazon S3

Simple Storage Service (S3) - Amazons unlimited object storage, making it easy to store files for access by other AWS services or serving them to the internet (although you might want to put a cache such as Amazon CloudFront in front if you chose this last service).

#Cloud Hosting #Object Storage #Cloud Storage 170 social mentions

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Amazon Aurora

After having spent a number of years working with databases in AWS, I cannot emphasize enough how much I recommend Amazon Aurora if you’re running MySQL or PostgreSQL in production. Amazon Aurora takes the concept of a managed database to the next level, and automates replication across multiple availability zones, or regions, distributed storage, and has incredible performance. No longer do you have to worry about scaling out, or increasing database storage - Aurora takes care of it all. For production, we’d go for Aurora in 10/10 cases.

#Databases #Relational Databases #Tool 20 social mentions

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Amazon RDS

For smaller projects, development, or if you need OracleDB, MSSQL or even some custom databases, Amazon RDS is a managed database service, abstracting away the need to maintain the database server itself, and making it incredibly easy to maintain a database. You still need to provision capacity and monitor it, but it is still an amazing service in order to avoid having to maintain a database server.

#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Relational Databases 67 social mentions

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Amazon Lightsail

Alternatively if you do not expect to get much traffic to the application, Amazon Lightsail is a dirt cheap way to run containers too, just don’t expect too much integration with other AWS Services.

#VPS #Cloud Computing #Databases 50 social mentions

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AWS Lambda

Got a brand new application you’re building, with limited dependencies? Consider going a brand new direction, where you don’t have to worry about servers, or infrastructure. Serverless compute, using services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway lets you build applications and run them only when you need them, and only pay for when the functions are executed - and the cost is dirt cheap. Fractions of what it would cost to run code in any other service. I recommend checking out how a company such as “A Cloud Guru” runs their entire video training platform on AWS Lambda and Serverless. This architecture requires you to rethink how you’re building your application, but it’s not very complicated, and you can save a significant amount of energy and money.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Backend As A Service 243 social mentions

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AWS Fargate

Want container orchestration, with automatic scaling out and in, using load balanced solutions, but don’t want to maintain it? Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Fargate is perfect! Running on Fargate you have no servers to maintain or have to worry about provisioning capacity, AWS takes care of it all for you, including scaling, load balancing, and maintaining the control plane. It’s simple to configure, and integrates very well with other tools such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild and CodeCommit.

#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #DevOps Tools 44 social mentions

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Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) - A managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises with EKS anywhere!

#Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #Cloud Infrastructure 54 social mentions

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Amazon ECS

Want container orchestration, with automatic scaling out and in, using load balanced solutions, but don’t want to maintain it? Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Fargate is perfect! Running on Fargate you have no servers to maintain or have to worry about provisioning capacity, AWS takes care of it all for you, including scaling, load balancing, and maintaining the control plane. It’s simple to configure, and integrates very well with other tools such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild and CodeCommit.

#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Cloud Computing 46 social mentions

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Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 - The backbone and arguably one of AWS most famous services. EC2 is AWS Virtual Machines. You select how much CPU, RAM and disk space you need, then what operating system to run. You can pick from a myriad of Linux distributions, Windows Server and Desktop and even macOS (special rates and restrictions apply). You’re billed by the second you have the virtual machine running.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 62 social mentions

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DynamoDB

The last half a decade has also seen the meteoric rise of NoSQL databases. AWS offers a fantastic managed, Key-Value NoSQL database service known as DynamoDB. It features single-digit millisecond performance with nearly unlimited throughput and storage. It has encrypted data at rest, backup and restore and automatic multi-region replication. The storage is cheap, and is well worth a shot for projects that work well in NoSQL databases.

#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Relational Databases 101 social mentions

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AWS CodePipeline

Want container orchestration, with automatic scaling out and in, using load balanced solutions, but don’t want to maintain it? Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Fargate is perfect! Running on Fargate you have no servers to maintain or have to worry about provisioning capacity, AWS takes care of it all for you, including scaling, load balancing, and maintaining the control plane. It’s simple to configure, and integrates very well with other tools such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild and CodeCommit.

#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 28 social mentions

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AWS CodeCommit

Want container orchestration, with automatic scaling out and in, using load balanced solutions, but don’t want to maintain it? Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Fargate is perfect! Running on Fargate you have no servers to maintain or have to worry about provisioning capacity, AWS takes care of it all for you, including scaling, load balancing, and maintaining the control plane. It’s simple to configure, and integrates very well with other tools such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild and CodeCommit.

#Git #Code Collaboration #Git Tools 22 social mentions

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AWS CodeBuild

Want container orchestration, with automatic scaling out and in, using load balanced solutions, but don’t want to maintain it? Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on Fargate is perfect! Running on Fargate you have no servers to maintain or have to worry about provisioning capacity, AWS takes care of it all for you, including scaling, load balancing, and maintaining the control plane. It’s simple to configure, and integrates very well with other tools such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild and CodeCommit.

#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 13 social mentions

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Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch - Collect, access, and correlate data on a single platform from across all your AWS resources, applications, and services.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Application Performance Monitoring 54 social mentions

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Amazon API Gateway

Got a brand new application you’re building, with limited dependencies? Consider going a brand new direction, where you don’t have to worry about servers, or infrastructure. Serverless compute, using services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway lets you build applications and run them only when you need them, and only pay for when the functions are executed - and the cost is dirt cheap. Fractions of what it would cost to run code in any other service. I recommend checking out how a company such as “A Cloud Guru” runs their entire video training platform on AWS Lambda and Serverless. This architecture requires you to rethink how you’re building your application, but it’s not very complicated, and you can save a significant amount of energy and money.

#API Tools #APIs #Web Service Automation 94 social mentions