116. What is RAM (Resource Access Manager)?

In this Halloween-themed episode, Eoin and Luciano tell some AWS horror stories! Get ready for some trick or treat! Of course we have to start with billing and we tell some of our failures with predicting cost ending up with a nightmarishly bad billing surprise! We also discuss some horror stories from the perspective of AWS developer experience and finally we touch on some Cloudformation terrors! In this episode we mentioned the following resources: AWS NAT Gateway: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-nat-gateway.html AWS High Performance Block Storage https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ Cloudformation UPDATE_ROLLBACK_FAILED state: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloudformation-update-rollback-failed/ This episode is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AWSBites You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-bites/id1585489017 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7PzqBFV6yt5WsTAmO5q - Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82YTMzMTJhMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== - Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites - RSS: ​​https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/eoins - https://twitter.com/loige

28 Okt 20217min

In this episode Eoin and Luciano try to reply to a question suggested by Emily Shea on Twitter (https://twitter.com/em__shea): When do you use Step Functions? Our answer describes what Step Function is and what you can build with it. We discuss some examples of features that we built in the past using step functions (a billing engine and a crawler) and why. We also discuss what are the main advantages of Step Functions and some things to be aware of, including limitations, cost and when not to use Step Functions. In this episode we mentioned the following resources: Step functions home page: https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/ Express step functions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/concepts-standard-vs-express.html AI As a Service (Book by P. Elger and E. Shanaghy): https://www.manning.com/books/ai-as-a-service This episode is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AWSBites You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-bites/id1585489017 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7PzqBFV6yt5WsTAmO5q - Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82YTMzMTJhMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== - Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites - RSS: ​​https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/eoins - https://twitter.com/loige

21 Okt 20219min

In this episode Eoin and Luciano talk about the pricing model for AWS Lambda and describe some cases where it could be a very convenient solution but also cases where it might end up being very expensive (compared to EC2 spot instances). In this episode we mentioned the following resources: Lambda power tuning: https://github.com/alexcasalboni/aws-lambda-power-tuning You are thinking about serverless costs all wrong: https://theburningmonk.com/2019/01/you-are-thinking-about-serverless-costs-all-wrong/ Why AWS Lambda Pricing Has to Change for the Enterprise: https://www.infoq.com/articles/aws-lambda-price-change/ This episode is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WPpke5mzsbiij1zGFbeEA You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-bites/id1585489017 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7PzqBFV6yt5WsTAmO5q - Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82YTMzMTJhMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== - Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites - RSS: ​​https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/eoins - https://twitter.com/loige

15 Okt 20217min

In this episode Eoin and Luciano talk about their favourite AWS services and why they like them. Spoiler: we talk about EventBridge, Lambda, CloudFormation, CDK, S3, ECS/Fargate plus some honorable mentions like CloudWatch and IAM. In this episode we mentioned the following resources: SLIC Watch: https://github.com/fourTheorem/slic-watch/ This episode is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WPpke5mzsbiij1zGFbeEA You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-bites/id1585489017 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7PzqBFV6yt5WsTAmO5q - Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82YTMzMTJhMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== - Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites - RSS: ​​https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/eoins - https://twitter.com/loige

8 Okt 20219min

In this episode Eoin and Luciano talk about programming languages in the context of Lambda. What language should you use? Actually we really answer the question “what languages do WE like to use in the context of Lambda”. Be ready for a lot of strong opinions in this episode! In this episode we mentioned the following resources: - AWS Lambda Rust Runtime: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime This show is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WPpke5mzsbiij1zGFbeEA You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aws-bites/id1585489017 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Lh7PzqBFV6yt5WsTAmO5q - Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy82YTMzMTJhMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== - Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/aws-bites - RSS: ​​https://anchor.fm/s/6a3312a0/podcast/rss Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/eoins - https://twitter.com/loige

1 Okt 20219min

In this episode Eoin and Luciano talk about static websites. What are the main requisites for a static website, where to host them and how to do it in AWS. Finally we touch on some common gotchas and tools that can make it easier for you to deploy static websites on AWS (spoiler: Amplify!). In this episode we mentioned the following resources: - SLIC Starter: https://github.com/fourTheorem/slic-starter - Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/ - Vercel: https://vercel.com/ - Amplify: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/ This show is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3WPpke5mzsbiij1zGFbeEA Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment or connect with us on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/eoins - https://twitter.com/loige

24 Sep 20217min

In this episode Eoin and Luciano talk about whether you should go all in and build multi-cloud applications or stick to one cloud provider. But first of all we try to define what multi-cloud means for us and how it is different from hybrid-cloud and cloud-agnostic deployments. We also discuss the perils of cloud-agnostic and why you should rather consider having “only” a migration strategy. In this episode we mentioned the following resources: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-amazon-ecs-anywhere/ https://aws.amazon.com/eks/eks-anywhere/ Do you have any AWS questions you would like us to address? Leave a comment here or connect with us on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/eoins - https://twitter.com/loige

16 Sep 20219min

In this episode Eoin and Luciano talk about what it means to adopt serverless, when you should use AWS Lambda, and when you should not use serverless.

9 Sep 20217min