AWS Bites

CloudWatch is the main Observability tool in AWS and it offers a wide range of features: logs, metrics, dashboards, alarms and even events (recently moved into EventBridge). In this episode we are goi...

21 Apr 202233min

What are the benefits of Tags? You have probably seen that you can add tags to almost every resource in AWS… but should you really do it? And if you do it, what are the benefits? In today’s episode Eo...

14 Apr 202225min

Should I use CloudFormation or should I use Terraform instead? If you are just starting to do Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) you probably have this question. In this episode we will discuss in detail h...

7 Apr 202230min

AWS Lambda just got a big upgrade in ephemeral storage: you can now have up to 10 GB of storage for your /tmp folder! Before this was limited to “only” 512 Mb… But is this really useful? What can we d...

31 Mar 202216min

Eoin and Luciano take you through the ways serverless can give you more security out of the box. We cover the tradeoffs between having more security control and the responsibility that comes with this...

25 Mar 202231min

Luciano and Eoin discuss their strategies and ideas to help new team members to start embracing cloud computing and get productive with AWS. What are the main concepts to focus on when bootstrapping t...

18 Mar 202212min

Eoin and Luciano try to answer the question of what AWS accounts do you need for your team and how to organize them. In this episode of AWS bites we discuss common ways to organize AWS accounts and en...

11 Mar 202224min

Luciano and Eoin explore the wonderful world of data streaming using Kafka on AWS. In this episode we focus mainly on Managed Streaming for Kafka (or MSK) and discuss what are the main differences bet...

4 Mar 202232min