Amazon Web Services (AWS) Posts - Page 9

The most popular usage of Amazon CloudFront is to distribute static content such as images, videos or other objects existing in an Amazon S3 bucket. However, you can also use Amazon CloudFront to distribute your dynamic content such as a Ruby on Rails or PHP web application and benefit from the advantages of utilizing the globally distributed network infrastructure of AWS. In this blog post, I will talk about the advantages and the necessary configuration options for creating an Amazon CloudFront distribution for a dynamic web application.

Continue reading the Serving Dynamic Websites with Amazon CloudFront blog post.

The major yearly AWS event, re:Invent 2018, took place two weeks ago. As always, there were new exciting launches announced from various fields, from serverless to machine learning, even blockchain. In this post, I will talk about 5 of these launches that I find more interesting and looking forward to explore more.

Continue reading the 5 Groups of Interesting AWS Launches in re:Invent 2018 blog post.

Today, encrypting data at rest is crucial for enhancing security of our applications. Besides, it might be a requirement for your compliance regulations. Whatever the reason is, it is a best practice to encrypt your Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. In this post, I will show you how to encrypt an Amazon EBS volume using its integration with Amazon Key Management Service (KMS).

Continue reading the Encrypting Amazon EBS Volumes blog post.

When you dockerize a Ruby on Rails application on AWS, it is essential to configure logging correctly to monitor application health. There are some tweaks to achieve this and I will briefly describe the process in this blog post.

Firstly, let’s make a brief introduction to Docker along with its deployment options on AWS.

Continue reading the Configuring Rails Logging for Docker on Amazon ECS & Fargate blog post.

As a passionate advocate for automation, I have been using AWS CloudFormation since the first day I started migrating my applications to AWS. I need to manage my time efficiently and should not repeat myself. By applying automation in infrastructure provisioning and keeping my architecture as a code, I can save, test, and re-use my work later.

Managing your infrastructure as code is one of the key DevOps practices, and AWS CloudFormation is your service on AWS to realize it. In this post, I explain 11 reasons for using AWS CloudFormation and automating the provisioning of your infrastructure.

Save your time, bring quality to your process by starting to prepare your CloudFormation templates today!

Continue reading the 11 Reasons to Use AWS CloudFormation for Provisioning Your Architecture blog post.