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Alex Wood

Author: Alex Wood

Alex is on the AWS SDK for Ruby team, and is the author of the aws-sdk-rails and aws-record gems. You can find him on Twitter @alexwwood

Deploying Ruby on Rails Applications to AWS OpsWorks

To begin our series on using Ruby on Rails with Amazon Web Services, we are going to start at the beginning: deploying our application. Today, we will be deploying our application to AWS OpsWorks. Following along with this post, you should be able to deploy our “Todo Sample App” to AWS using OpsWorks, with your […]

Blog Series: Ruby on Rails on Amazon Web Services

Welcome to a series on how to integrate Ruby on Rails apps with Amazon Web Services. In this series, we’re going to start from scratch with a simple app, and show you how to make it scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant. The Sample App For this blog series, we have built a sample app […]

AWS SDK for Ruby v1.15.0

Yesterday morning, we released a new version of the AWS SDK for Ruby (aws-sdk gem). This release adds mobile push support for Amazon Simple Notification Service. The release also includes API updates for Amazon Redshift, adding snapshot identifiers to the AWS::Redshift::Client#copy_cluster_snapshot and AWS::Redshift::Client#delete_cluster_snapshot operations, and enabling better status reporting for restoring from snapshots. You can […]

Using Client-Side Encryption for S3 in the AWS SDK for Ruby

What is client-side encryption, and why might I want to use it? If you wish to store sensitive data in Amazon S3 with the AWS SDK for Ruby, you have several ways of managing the safety and security of the data. One good practice is to use HTTPS whenever possible to protect your data in […]