I know everyone is talking about the pandemic at the moment, so I thought I would sidestep the topic, and continue to discuss what I know best. Which is the public cloud! Of late, I see more and more discussions on CTO forums, and in the news on surprise AWS bills. Did you hear what happened…
ECS is Amazon’s elastic container service. If you have a dockerized app, this is one way to get it deployed in the cloud. It is basically an Amazon bootleg Kubernetes clone. And not nearly as feature-rich! That said, ECS does work, and it will allow you to get your application going on Amazon. Soon enough…
I was recently talking with a colleague of mine about where AWS is today. Obviously, these companies are migrating to EC2 & the cloud rapidly. The growth rates are staggering. The question was… “What’s good and bad with Amazon today?” It’s an interesting question. I think there are some dirty little secrets here, but also…
I was flipping through the AWS Reddit channel and found this excellent presentation from RE: Invent by Laura Grit. She’s in charge of Amazon Retail and worked very closely with teams on migrating to AWS. She goes in-depth on what that cost in terms of development, what it saved in terms of unused capacity, and surprisingly operational…
You want to make your wordpress site bulletproof? No server outage worries? Want to make it faster & more reliable. And also host on cheaper components? I was after all these gains & also wanted to kick the tires on some of Amazon’s latest devops offerings. So, I plotted a way forward to completely automate…
Amazon’s spot market for computing power is set up as an open market for surplus servers. The price is dynamic and depends on demand. So, when demand is low, you can get computing instances for rock-bottom prices. When you do that, you normally set a range of prices you’re willing to pay. If it goes…
There are a lot of considerations for deploying MySQL in the Cloud. Some concepts and details won’t be obvious to DBAs used to deploying on traditional servers. For this, we have provided eight best practices in this guide that will certainly set you off on the right foot. Let’s explore them below. This article is part…
ECS is Amazon’s Elastic Container Service. That’s Greek for how you get docker containers running in the cloud. It’s sort of like Kubernetes without all the bells and whistles. It takes a bit of getting used to, but This terraforms how to, should get you moving. You need an EC2 host to run your containers…
I was discussing a server outage with a colleague recently. AWS had done some confusing things, and the team was rallying to troubleshoot & fix it. He made an offhand comment that caught my attention…AWS is too complex for small dev teams. I’d recommend we host in a traditional data center. AWS to Small Dev…
Can RDS worsen an outage ?? That’s another way to think about this question. In my experience, it very clearly increases outages, by tying one or both hands behind your back. Believe me, when I say, that is terribly frustrating when you’re putting out fires! Downsides of Upgrading RDS There are several downsides to upgrading RDS….