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Discover the key highlights from AWS re:Invent 2018, including the growth of AWS, the dominance of Kubernetes and cloud security, and the overall maturity of the AWS platform and its ecosystem. Learn about the emerging trends and how businesses can navigate the complex landscape of cloud adoption.

Another re:Invent is in the books, and there were dozens of major announcements—too many to summarize effectively in a single post. This recap focuses on the ones most relevant to developers and engineers, which means IoT, HPC and machine learning don’t get a lot of coverage here. Some of the mor…

AWS hosts their annual conference next week in Las Vegas, bringing in 40,000+ people from around the world to showcase their company and roll out new and enhanced services for the coming year. AWS re:Invent is a big deal, and for many of us, how we spend 2019 will be greatly shaped by the announc…

Last week, AWS announced S3 Public Access Policies, new bucket-level controls to restrict public access to buckets. This is a big deal, as prior to this there was no way to definitively make a bucket and its contents private. AWS asserts that buckets were always private by default. In reality, bu…

Stay up-to-date with the latest AWS updates from October, including longer Lambda execution times, new RDS instance types and database versions, a new AWS calculator, console improvements, inter-VPC routing enhancements, and more. Learn how these updates can benefit your AWS infrastructure and ap…

Open source software isn’t new. Great projects like Linux, FreeBSD, Apache and PHP have been around for 20-plus years. But how and when we use open source has changed greatly in that time. In the past, it was common to use a small handful of open source projects in your application, usually linke…

Discover Kubespy, a lightweight open-source command-line tool that provides valuable insights into Kubernetes pods and clusters. Learn about its powerful commands, such as status, changes, and trace, and how they can help you monitor and understand the inner workings of your containerized workloads.

Discover why now is the perfect time to embrace the cloud, not just as a new place to apply old ways of thinking, but as a paradigm shift in IT. Learn about the four highly leveraged factors that make the decision to be in the cloud an obvious choice for survival and success.

Learn how to automate the creation of an IAM password policy in your AWS account using CloudFormation custom resources and Lambda functions. Discover the key steps and considerations for implementing this solution, and access the full template from our GitHub repository.