AWS Lambda – the future of event driven automation

Posted on November 5, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Lambda is a compute service in Amazon Web Services, which triggers actions based on the events. Lambda is efficient and event driven which responses to events from either objects added or removed from S3, updating to DynamoDB tables, SNS, data in Kinesis Stream, Cloudwatch logs, In-App activity etc.

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Deep dive into the AWS API Gateway

Posted on October 21, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

From my previous blog, you can get a hands on with the AWS API Gateway. Now we will deep dive into it. Following points will be covered.

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AWS IoT: A Service for Internet of Things

Posted on October 12, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

The AWS re:Invent keynote session by Dr. Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon.com) on day 2 unleashed a new set of possibilities to the world of Information Technology. Imagine Virtualization clubbed with Internet of Things (IoT) and then brought in front of you as a service. And this is now a reality since AWS has launched a new service called AWS IoT, which is currently available in beta version.

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Amazon Inspector- Application Security Service in AWS Cloud

Posted on October 8, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

The AWS re:Invent keynote session by Andy Jassy (Senior VP, AWS) on Day 1 comprised of announcements about the new services and enhancements in some of the existing ones. In this blog, I am going to talk about one of the new services- Amazon Inspector.

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AWS Identity & Access Management – Best Practices

Posted on September 9, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Security is a critical aspect for any organization. This blog focuses on the account security measure provided by AWS – IAM. IAM stands for Identity and Access Management and is used for controlling access to AWS services and resources. There are no additional charges for using IAM.

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Cassandra Multi-AZ Data Replication

Posted on August 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(7)

Apache Cassandra is an open source non-relational/NOSQL database. It is massively scalable and is designed to handle large amounts of data across multiple servers (Here, we shall use Amazon EC2 instances), providing high availability. In this blog, we shall replicate data across nodes running in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) to ensure reliability and fault tolerance

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Implementation of Custom Cloudwatch Metric in Amazon Web Services

Posted on August 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

Metrics are used to monitor various resources in Amazon Web Services like EBS volumes, EC2 instances and RDS instances. Apart from the pre-defined metrics in AWS, sometimes monitoring is required for additional service parameters. For creating a user defined metric, AWS has introduced custom metrics in CloudWatch.

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Integrating AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB

Posted on August 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(25)

In the current world of API, every mobile application and website have to communicate using dedicated API servers. These dedicated servers are explicitly set to handle the API calls for an application. API servers act as an intermediary between the application and the database.

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Migration of WordPress from BlueHost to AWS for FREE!!!

Posted on August 14, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

We know it is a painful and cumbersome exercise to move WordPress installation from BlueHost to AWS. We have been getting lot of consulting requests from lot of companies for migrating their WordPress installation from BlueHost to AWS.

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IAM Authorization Hierarchy

Posted on May 5, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the service that provides a authentication and authorization control for users and resources in ones AWS account. Although authentication has been quite simple and straightforward, viz. one can create groups, users and credentials for the users and share the same, authorization is quite a trick on IAM.

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