Cloud Computing

Use case: AWS Shield vs WAF

AWS provides an array of services to increase your defence in depth. A common question amongst users are on the difference in use case between AWS Shield and AWS WAF. The spoiler alert is that these two are not direct alternatives to each other and therefore are not mutually…

Use case: Kinesis Data Streams vs Kinesis Data Firehose

This is a post on the the use case differences between Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Data Firehose.

Plot twist: they aren’t strictly mutually exclusive.

The instance family ‘mac1’ is not supported.

If you are trying to setup a dedicated host for macOS EC2 instances, and you run into the following error:

The instance family ‘mac1’ is not supported.

Amazon EC2 Mac instances: insufficient capacity

This is a quick post.

Several developers have reported running into ‘insufficient capacity’ errors when trying to allocate a Mac instance via EC2.

How to run macOS using Amazon EC2 Mac instances [cur]

This is a work in progress post. I will update…

2 minute introduction to AWS Lambda

This post is a super quick introduction to AWS Lambda, and it assumes that you already have basic knowledge of:

• What Amazon Web Services is
• How server code is written

Tooling: how to upgrade AWS CDK CLI

How to upgrade the AWS CDK CLI. 1-minute guide.

List of Serverless Function Providers you need to know about in 2021