30. What can you do with 10GB of Lambda storage?
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 do now that we couldn’t do before? Also, is this going to have an impact on price? And how does it compare with other storage capabilities that are available in Lambda? Eoin and Luciano are on the case to try to find some answers to these compelling questions, for the greater serverless good! In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: - Official AWS announcement blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/aws-lambda-configure-ephemeral-storage/ - Will Dady on Twitter about 10GB of ephemeral storage now enabling interesting CI/CD use cases: https://twitter.com/WillDady/status/1507110176209322018 - Yan Cui’s post on Lumigo’s blog “Welcome to 10GB of tmp storage with Lambda”: https://lumigo.io/blog/welcome-to-10gb-of-tmp-storage-with-lambda/ - Lambda cost comparison with ephemeral storage spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_oGjLN0BeRR8CWfgdjeYiIknRTugdmJOhGkAjLCTStw/edit?usp=sharing 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
31 Mars 202216min
29. Is serverless more secure?
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 power. There are always new security challenges so we cover some of the common pitfalls with serverless and AWS security in general. Finally, we share some tips to make your serverless deployments more secure. In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: Architecting Secure Serverless Applications on the AWS Architecture Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/architecting-secure-serverless-applications/ AWS IAM Access Analyzer: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/what-is-access-analyzer.htm The AWS response to the Log4J2 vulnerability: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2021-006/ FunctionShield: https://github.com/puresec/FunctionShield 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
25 Mars 202231min
28. How do you onboard junior devs to AWS?
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 this journey, how to make a plan and make sure it’s bespoke to the expectation of the new employee. How to do pairing sessions and make sure we can build hands-on experience. Finally we discuss building troubleshooting skills and make sure we put in place a virtuous cycle that can foster continuous learning. In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: - Our previous episode about AWS certifications and learning material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf0CuUOtPEI 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
18 Mars 202212min
27. How do you organize AWS Accounts?
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 environments from the perspective of a company running production workloads. We try to answer questions like “how many accounts and how many environments?”. We also discuss how you and your team can be more productive by effectively managing AWS accounts and environments. Finally we explore some common security and cost-related tradeoffs that are common when it comes to organizing AWS accounts. Thanks to David Lynam for suggesting this awesome topic! In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: - AWS Account vending machines: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/aws-landing-zone/ - Org Formation: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli - Terraform for accounts and organizations: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/organizations_account 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
11 Mars 202224min
26. What can you do with Kafka on AWS?
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 between MSK and Kinesis. We also explore the main features that MSK provides, its scaling characteristics, pricing and, finally, how MSK works in conjunction with other AWS services. We conclude the episode by providing a decision tree that should help you to decide whether you should use Kinesis or MSK or avoid streaming services entirely in favor of something like SNS or SQS. In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: - Our previous episode on Kinesis data streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nR6up4Kvs - Our series of Event services: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7uhkKftoY&list=PLAWXFhe0N1vLHkGO1ZIWW_SZpturHBiE_ - AWS MSK sizing spreadsheet: https://dy7oqpxkwhskb.cloudfront.net/MSK_Sizing_Pricing.xlsx - Should My Startup use Kinesis or MSK? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJS19EuzH2k - Intro to MSK (reinvent talk from 2018) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nKswHsLseY - Running Apache Kafka on AWS (by Frank Munz) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtU9pb18g5Q - Cloudonaut - Kinesis versus MSK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcBAKz0MPf8 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
4 Mars 202232min
25. What can you do with Kinesis Data Streams?
Eoin and Luciano are back with some more AWS messaging services material! This time we talk about Kinesis Data Streams and everything there’s to know about them! In this episode of AWS Bites, we cover the difference between data streaming and queue or message buses. How Kinesis can let you process large batches of messages in near real time. Why you might use Kinesis as a queue or pub/sub bus in some cases. A few different ways to use Kinesis with the focus on avoiding too much complexity. We also provide some insights based on our experience with Kinesis Data Streams including real use cases, monitoring tips and some gotchas to be aware of. In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: - Our introductory episode about what services you should use for events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7uhkKftoY - Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/developing-producers-with-kpl.html - Amazon Kinesis Consumer Library (KCL): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/shared-throughput-kcl-consumers.html - Kinesis Library wrapper for Node.js: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client-nodejs - Kinesis Library wrapper for Python: https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-client-python - Kinesis Data Stream with captures from DynamoDB (for CDC): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/kds.html - Kinesis Data Stream with captures from Aurora: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/DBActivityStreams.Overview.html - Kinesis Data Analytics: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-analytics/ - Kinesis Firehose: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/ - Must-read on Kinesis: Anahit Pogosova’s two-part blog series: https://dev.solita.fi/2020/05/28/kinesis-streams-part-1.html & https://dev.solita.fi/2020/12/21/kinesis-streams-part-2.html - Cloudonaut Kinesis vs MSK: https://cloudonaut.io/versus/messaging/kinesis-data-streams-vs-msk/ - Deep Dive on Lambda Consumers for Kinesis / Heeki Park - re:invent 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYwc7-wwsU You can listen to AWS Bites wherever you get your podcasts. Find all the links on https://awsbites.com 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
25 Feb 202242min
24. What's SNS and how do you use it?
Luciano and Eoin deep dive into SNS discussing what it does, how it differs from EventBridge and SQS and how you can use it to send messages to customers but also for microservices communication. In this new episode dedicated to AWS events and messaging services, we learn everything there is to know about SNS including advantages, limitations and cost. This episode complements the episode about EventBridge, giving another perspective on when to use SNS and when to pick EventBridge instead. In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: - Our previous episode about EventBridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjIE5qp-v8w - Our previous episode about all things SQS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svoA-ds8-8c - Our introductory episode about what services you should use for events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7uhkKftoY - A comparison between EventBridge and SNS by Cloudonaut: https://cloudonaut.io/eventbridge-vs-sns/ 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
18 Feb 202215min
23. What’s the big deal with EventBridge
Eoin and Luciano continue their series about event services. In this episode, they chat about EventBridge and explore why this AWS service has such a great potential for event-based serverless applications. This episode presents some interesting examples of when and how to use EventBridge. It also covers all the different classes of events that you can manage with EventBridge: AWS events, third-party events and custom events. We discuss limits and pricing and, finally, we show how things can go wrong and how much you can end up paying for it. We conclude the episode with some tips and resources to avoid shooting yourself in the foot and get good observability when using EventBridge.In this episode, we mentioned the following resources: - Our previous episode about all things SQS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svoA-ds8-8c - Our introductory episode about what services you should use for events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG7uhkKftoY - List of AWS services that can trigger EventBridge events: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-service-event.html - An example of how to make HTTP calls directly from EventBridge (Sheen Brisals): https://medium.com/lego-engineering/amazon-eventbridge-api-destinations-demystified-part-i-23fa70d9a04d - How to test when using EventBridge (by Paul Swail): https://serverlessfirst.com/eventbridge-testing-guide/ - Eventbridge CLI tool: https://github.com/spezam/eventbridge-cli - Lumigo CLI: https://github.com/lumigo-io/lumigo-CLI#lumigo-cli-tail-eventbridge-bus - EventBridge Atlas: https://eventbridge-atlas.netlify.app/ - EventBridge Canon: https://eventbridge-canon.netlify.app/ - Accelerate Serverless Adoption with EventBridge (talk by Sheen Brisals): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTZpoSGOSOI - Series of Articles by Sheen Brisals on EventBridge: https://sbrisals.medium.com/table-of-contents-set-pieces-16c1ca1ecb33 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 - 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
11 Feb 202233min
