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A service mesh for EC2, ECS, and EKS Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss the our blog post Review: AWS App Mesh – A service mesh for EC2, ECS, and EKS, the written version of this podcast episode. Building a service mesh is trending those days. App Mesh provides service mesh capabilities for EC2, ECS, and EKS. For free! On top of that, App Mesh integrates with a bunch of AWS services like Cloud Map, Certificate Manager, CloudWatch, and X-Ray. App Mesh is a new service still at the very beginning. Our service maturity score of 4.7 indicates that it is too early to use App Mesh right now. Let’s wait for AWS to improve the service step by step based on other AWS customers’ feedback. The fundamental problem is that App Mesh is not a fully managed service. As an App Mesh customer, you need to deploy and operate 1-3 sidecar containers per task (aka. pod). This contradicts the goal of having the cloud provider take over as many tasks as possible. It is frustrating that activating CloudWatch metrics incurs costs of more than $150 per month for a mesh consisting of two services. Also, $400 per month for a private CA provided by ACM will probably be a show stopper for most scenarios. Overall, App Mesh is only for service mesh enthusiasts. Rapid Docker on AWS We have just released chapter 3 of the Rapid Docker on AWS video course. You will learn how to master the building blocks of a modern cloud architecture: running containers without servers, configuring HTTPS/TLS encryption, managing the cloud with Infrastructure as Code, … Start the video course now! Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

6 unknown CloudFormation features you should know about Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our blog post 6 unknown CloudFormation features you should know about, the written version of this podcast episode. Michael shares 6 tips and tricks to improve your Infrastructure as Code templates: cfn-lint Creation policy Update policy Deletion policy Update replace policy cfn-init Bonus: Stack Sets 📣 marbot for Microsoft Teams About two months ago, we launched the beta of marbot for Microsoft Teams. We received tremendous feedback. Today, we are happy to announce that marbot for Microsoft Teams is generally available on the AWS Marketplace. Monitor your AWS infrastructure with easy and receive alarms via Microsoft Teams. Check it out!. Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

How do you choose the best storage option on AWS? Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes How do you choose the best storage option 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 options to store data on AWS: Instance Store provides low latency and high throughput block storage for EC2 instances. EBS (Elastic Block Storage) provides persistent block storage for EC2 instances. EFS (Elastic File System) provides a scalable and fault-tolerant network file system (NFSv4). FSx (File System for Windows File Server) provides a fully-managed Windows File Server. S3 (Simple Storage Service) provides highly scalable and fault-tolerant object storage. This podcast episode is based on the blog post Storage on AWS, which was published first on the Cloudcraft blog. Looking for a comparison of all database services available on AWS instead? Check out Databases on AWS. Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

From rolling updates to blue green and canary Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our blog post ECS Deployment Options, the written version of this podcast episode. You can find Philipp on Twitter and his blog. Also check out Philipp's deep dive on load balanced ECS Service deployments with CloudFormation Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Comparing the available options Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our blog post Messaging on AWS, the written version of this podcast episode. Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Cheaper and Faster REST APIs? Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our blog post Review: API Gateway HTTP APIs - Cheaper and Faster REST APIs?, the written version of this podcast episode. HTTP APIs An API gateway acts as an API front-end that receives API requests from clients and forwards them to back-end services. Typically, an API gateway offers the following features: Throttling Billing Authentication and authorization Request validation Request and response transformation 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 available in March 2020. The cloud provider promises that HTTP APIs are faster and cheaper than it's predecessor. We will look at hard technical facts instead of flowery marketing promises. A summary of Amazon's API gateways to avoid confusion: API Gateway REST APIs is the full-feature flagship service to build REST APIs announced in 2015. API Gateway HTTP APIs is the fast and straightforward alternative to build REST APIs announced in 2019. API Gateway WebSocket APIs was announced in 2018 and allows you to build a real-time API using WebSockets. Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a layer-7 load balancer with similarities with an API gateway. This review focuses on HTTP APIs. Further AWS reviews Looking for more reviews of AWS services? Here you go! Review: AWS Backup - A centralized place for managing backups? Review: Amazon Aurora Serverless - A cloud-native and production-ready relational database? Review: AWS Global Accelerator - Improving Latency and Design for Failure [Review: Amazon Connect – A Programmable Telephone System](https://cloudonaut.io/review-amazon-connect-programmable-telephone-system/] marbot available for Microsoft Teams We are happy to announce, that marbot, our chatbot monitoring your AWS infrastructure is now available not only for Slack but for Microsoft Teams as well. marbot sets up CloudWatch Alarms and EventBridge Rules for all parts of your AWS infrastructure. CloudFormation and Terraform are supported. Your team receives alerts as direct messages or channel messages via Slack or Microsoft Teams. The alert includes relevant details to understand and solve the problem. Give marbot for Micrsoft Teams a try! Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our blog post End-user monitoring of your website with CloudWatch Synthetics, the written version of this podcast episode. CloudFormation template mentioned: https://github.com/marbot-io/monitoring-jump-start/blob/master/marbot-synthetics-website.yml Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Comparing different approaches to manage a container cluster on top of EC2 Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our blog post Scaling Container Clusters on AWS: ECS and EKS, the written version of this podcast episode. ECS with Cluster Auto Scaling ECS task lifecycle, new state PROVISIONING for clusters with capacity provider. Check out Deep Dive on Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling when interested in more details. ECS with DIY Auto Scaling Scale out with CloudWatch event SERVICE_TASK_PLACEMENT_FAILURE. Scale in based on CloudWatch metrics CPUReservation and MemoryReservation. Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks Container Instance Draining Check out our open source project widdix/aws-cf-templates including an implementation of the discussed DIY Auto Scaling for ECS clusters. EKS with Cluster Autoscaler EKS Managed Node Groups K8s Cluster Autoscaler Specifying a Disruption Budget for your Application Rapid Docker on AWS Become a Docker on AWS professional! Our ebook/video course Rapid Docker on AWS is designed for DevOps engineers and web developers who want to run dockerized web applications on AWS. We lead you with many examples: From dockerizing your application to Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure as Code on AWS. No prior knowledge of Docker and AWS is required. Learn more! Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our updated blog post CloudFormation vs. Terraform, the written version of this podcast episode.* Our open-source CloudFormation template projects: aws-cf-templates cfn-modules Our open-source Terraform modules can be found in the Terraform Registry List of missing CloudFormation coverage. Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Think twice before using AWS Organizations Newsletter Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications. Subscribe to our newsletter for free! Notes Don't miss our blog post AWS Account Structure: Think twice before using AWS Organizations, the written version of this podcast episode. Book tipp: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Check out bucketAV: Scan your S3 buckets for viruses, worms, and trojans. bucketAV detects malware in real-time or on-demand.. Support us We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. Support us! Feedback We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.