Aws

Starting 2020 with an empty agenda and a new website: Hit The Cloud Running.com

December 31, 2019

In 2020 I’m going to work on a few dreams I have for quite some time. The first dream has become reality already: this website is now live.

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Migrate CloudFormation Custom Resources after AWS adds support

November 13, 2019

New services do not always deliver support for CloudFormation at the launch. If you work with CloudFormation, you can create a Custom Resource. With the new import functionality, once AWS adds native support for the resource, you can now import this resource into your template and remove the old custom resource.

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Building a global app with AWS Global Accelerator

July 3, 2019

This blog post describes how to use the AWS Global Accelerator with a simple service across two regions, deployed with Terraform. AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves the availability and performance of the applications that you offer to your global users.

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AWS CLI aliases: shorten your most used commands

June 30, 2019

One of the best kept secrets of the AWS CLI should be the ‘alias’ feature. It’s a native feature of AWS. In this blog post I’ll describe how to get started and show you a couple of my most used aliases so far.

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Secrets in AWS ECS Fargate

June 30, 2019

There are many ways to use ‘secrets’ in ECS and ECS Fargate. Most of the time they are exposed using Environment variables, because a few years ago this was the only easy option.

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