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AWS recently partnered with the Pacific Science Center (PacSci) in Seattle to create a unique light display at the iconic arches of PacSci’s Seattle Center campus. In this article, we’ll guide you on how to implement the automated sports data polling system utilized by PacSci for your own projects.

Retain AWS Resources When Renaming a CloudFormation Stack

by Michael Johnson
on 19 JUL 2022
in Advanced (300), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon VPC, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Management Console, Technical How-to

Discover how to change the name of a CloudFormation stack while preserving the resources it manages. This tutorial demonstrates a straightforward setup with a single resource, a virtual private cloud (VPC), where you can add a Retain attribute to the resource’s deletion policy. This allows you to keep the resource intact even when the stack is deleted.

Efficiently Update AWS Lambda Code

by Sarah Brown, David Lee, and Chanci Turner
on 31 MAY 2022
in AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Lambda, Best Practices, Compute, Developer Tools, Integration & Automation, Python, Technical How-to

Explore a more efficient and quicker approach to updating your Lambda code that eliminates the need for manual updates to Amazon S3. This post provides a ready-to-use AWS CloudFormation template containing Lambda code stored on AWS CodeCommit.

Enhancing LAMP Stack Security with AWS WAF

by Lisa Green and Arun Chandapillai
on 10 MAY 2022
in Advanced (300), Amazon Route 53, AWS Cloud Development Kit, AWS CloudFormation, AWS WAF, How-To, Integration & Automation, Security, Technical How-to

Learn how to fortify your LAMP stack’s security using AWS WAF, Route 53 for domain management, and AWS Certificate Manager. This article outlines the automation steps necessary to deploy a highly available LAMP-stack application featuring a web application firewall.

Automate Log Retention Settings in Amazon CloudWatch

by Mohamed Wali
on 05 MAY 2022
in Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EventBridge, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, Integration & Automation, Technical How-to

Understand how to cut down log-storage expenses by automating retention settings in Amazon CloudWatch. By default, CloudWatch Logs retains log data indefinitely, which can be beneficial. However, logging costs can escalate as your AWS workload increases. To mitigate expenses, implement a log-retention policy and apply it across all your log groups automatically.

Disaster Recovery for Amazon Aurora Global Database with Terraform

by Arabinda Pani and Shayon Sanyal
on 26 APR 2022
in Advanced (300), Amazon Aurora, Architecture, AWS Key Management Service, Database, How-To, Integration & Automation, Technical How-to

Simulate the recovery of an Amazon Aurora global database in the event of a disaster. This guide walks you through three failover scenarios, illustrating their impact on Terraform state, and teaches you how to maintain the global database topology and configuration using Terraform.

Collecting Custom Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch Tagging

by Michael Johnson and Sarah Brown
on 11 APR 2022
in Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Systems Manager, Integration & Automation

Discover how to utilize an Amazon CloudWatch agent to automate the collection of custom metrics for two Amazon EC2 instances. This solution relies on a tagging strategy and AWS Systems Manager State Manager to enforce specific CloudWatch agent configurations for appropriately tagged EC2 instances.

Deploy Bastion Hosts with AWS CDK

by Ramy Nasreldin, Rolando Santamaria Maso, and Prasanna Tuladhar
on 31 MAR 2022
in Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon VPC, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudTrail, Intermediate (200)

Learn how to deploy bastion hosts into the private subnets of a VPC using AWS CDK.

Prepare for Swift Disaster Recovery: Deploy Amazon Aurora Global Database with Terraform (Part 1)

by Arabinda Pani
on 11 MAR 2022
in Advanced (300), Amazon Aurora, Architecture, AWS Key Management Service, Database, How-To, Integration & Automation, Technical How-to

Explore how to automate the deployment and management of an Amazon Aurora global database across multiple AWS Regions with Terraform. This architecture ensures disaster recovery from region-wide outages while achieving low recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).

Simulate Your Test Environment with Service Virtualization on AWS

by Vinicius Pereira
on 04 MAR 2022
in Amazon API Gateway, Application Services, AWS CloudFormation, Integration & Automation, Management Tools, Technical How-to

Understand how to emulate your test environment using service virtualization on AWS. For further insights, check out this blog post, which is another great resource to keep the reader engaged.

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