A few months ago I was approached to write a book about AWS for Packt Publishing [https://www.packtpub.com]. I'm pleased to announce that the AWS Administration Cookbook [https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/aws-administration-
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CloudFormation Stack Resources Summary
We were having a discussion over on the Serverless Forum [http://forum.serverless.com/t/hitting-cloudformation-max-resources/1098/3] about CloudFormation resources, and I came up with this AWS CLI command that I could see myself using later,
The Serverless Compute Manifesto
While watching the Building Complex Serverless Applications [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCOgc3MRUrs] talk from re:Invent 2016 I discovered The Serverless Compute Manifesto. I couldn't find it reproduced in an easy to use format, so here
Hands On With Serverless v1 Screencast
I've just finished my first Serverless screencast. Check it out and let me know what you think: It's my first screencast, so there's lots of things that I'd like to fix in
Understanding CloudWatch Events
When I first used CloudWatch Events [https://blog.rowanudell.com/scheduling-lambda-functions-with-the-aws-cli/] I knew just enough to get the job done. As I've played with it more, I've realised that the
Updating Security Groups with Lambda
> Paying for idle is so 2015 I had some Lambda Functions that scraped data from the Internet, and stored them in a database. Locking-down the RDS Security Group to only Lambda Functions turned out to be more complicated
Visualising EC2 Security Groups
Here's my first attempt at visualising AWS EC2 Security Groups in something other than a boring table: You can mouse over a SG name to see it's inbound (green) and outbound (red) connections to other groups/
Using Apex v0.5.0 to manage Lambda functions
I had read about Apex [https://github.com/apex/apex] and knew I wanted to try it out. The new announcement about v0.5.0 [https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/apex-v0-5-0-85b006f75b68#.z1rzocnsb] gave me the motivation to