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Category: AWS Cloud Development Kit
Deploy Amazon ElastiCache for Redis using AWS CDK
Need for Speed—No, it’s not the video game, but rather a critical requirement for the success of your website in this competitive world. Although we might think that subsecond delay is acceptable, the New York Times noted in For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait that humans can notice […]
Read MoreDeploy a containerized application with Amazon ECS and connect to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) securely
Deploying containerized applications with cloud database services can involve many manual steps, such as configuring networks and securing database connections from the applications. To simplify development and deployment, you can use infrastructure as code (IaC) to build, configure, deploy, and scale containerized applications automatically. In this post, I show you how to use IaC concepts […]
Read MoreAutomate Ethereum node validator deployment on Amazon EC2 using AWS CDK
Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. The Beacon chain (ETH2) is an upgrade to Ethereum that introduced a proof-of-stake concept to the Ethereum ecosystem. Staking in ETH2 is done by validators who perform actions such as attestations and block proposal activities to improve the Ethereum network’s security and scalability. Validators in […]
Read MoreAccelerate data migration using AWS DMS and AWS CDK
Deploying and configuring AWS Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) across multiple environments involves several configurations, testing, and provisioning of AWS DMS resources. This can be time-consuming and error-prone due to the large number of settings involved. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) lets you define your cloud infrastructure as code in one of five […]
Read MoreBuilding a data discovery solution with Amundsen and Amazon Neptune
This blog post was last reviewed or updated May, 2022. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this post, we discuss the need for a metadata and data lineage tool and the problems it solves, how to rapidly deploy it in the language you prefer using […]
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