Amazon S3 – Object Storage
Amazon S3 is an Object Storage service and is one of the main building blocks of the AWS Cloud.
This article is an overview of some of its features.
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Deploying a Django + Nginx application to a VPS with ansible
The article explains the steps for deploying a Django + Nginx application on an AWS Lightsail Virtual Private Server (VPS) with Docker and Ansible automation. This article will guide you through setting up a VPS instance, domain linking, server configuration with Ansible, securing the server, setting up SSL/TLS certificates, and finally, deploying the application. As part of the process, you’ll see how to run setup and deployment playbooks on a server, culminating in a live Django + Nginx project with HTTPS functionality.
Databases in AWS: RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed relational database service that allows you to setup and operate SQL databases in the AWS cloud.
In this article we’ll discuss the RDS databases and their scalability and high availability.
AWS: Auto Scaling
In our AWS Cloud article series, we’ve explored the fundamental aspects of EC2 instances, storage, and load balancers. In this article we’ll discuss scalability and Auto Scaling.
High Availability: Load Balancers and Auto Scaling
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high availability for your applications is crucial. Downtime can lead to frustrated users, lost revenue, and damage to your brand’s reputation. That’s where load balancers come into play.
AWS EC2 Storage
AWS offers a range of solutions for Object, file and block storage.This post covers Block storage, Instance storage, machine images and EFS.
AWS EC2 Fundamentals
Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 is an AWS service that gives you the ability to rent virtual machines, store data on them and automatically scale them up or down based on demand or traffic.
AWS ECS concepts.
According to Amazon, ECS or Elastic Container Service is “a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances”. In this post I will cover some of the main features of AWS ECS including clusters, tasks and services. Clusters Clusters …
Changing deployment policies in AWS
In a previous article, I discussed four different deployment policies you can employ when deploying applications to AWS. Some of these methods include All at once, Rolling, Immutable and Blue/Green deployments. In that article I discussed the differences between these policies. In this post, I will show you how to set up Immutable and Blue/Green …
Encryption using Python and AWS
In this post I’ll show you how to encrypt and decrypt strings using the AWS Encryption SDK and AWS KMS. Step 1: Install the AWS SDK for Python and the Encryption SDK You’ll need boto3 to create a Master Key programmatically and the aws-encryption-sdk for encrypting and decrypting data. Step 2: Add AWS credentials to …