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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). Read more at Encrypting Amazon EBS Volumes 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. Read more at Configuring Ruby on Rails Logging for Docker on Amazon ECS or Fargate 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!

Let’s say that you are a developer building awesome applications using Node.js or Python, but lacking knowledge and experience necessary to configure AWS environments. No worries! Elastic Beanstalk can make your life easier by handling configuration details. It uses preconfigured CloudFormation templates and provisions a scalable, load balanced and reliable environment for your application. It supports lots of programming languages, giving you less control but less worry in return. You can start from a single instance and make your architecture grow into a multi-instance cluster.

Although it may sound simple until now, actually Elastic Beanstalk is more than this. It provides you many deployment options and you can select one of them depending on your environment and use case. In this post, I will explain the options and when to consider them. Read more at Which AWS Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Method Should You Use? post.

Automating deployments of your web applications brings many benefits, especially when you run them on AWS. You standardize the process, prevent human errors, and can integrate with other AWS services like EC2 Autoscaling and Elastic Load Balancing. Today I will talk about how to automate your Ruby on Rails deployments using AWS CodeDeploy. Read more at Automating Ruby on Rails Deployments with AWS CodeDeploy post.