Adding Custom Domains and SSL/TLS with AWS Amplify

Woohoo! You’ve spun up your first AWS Amplify app successfully thanks to the work we did in our first post. That was cool until you realized that now you have some funky domain name like ka8enrkjasdf8het.amplifyapps.com which is not super friendly (unless your business happens to be named ka8enrkjasdf8het LLC). Configuring a Custom Domain and … Read more

AWS Summit Toronto Presentation: Open-source Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and AWS

This is the summary post which will cover my Open-source Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform and AWS presentation that I gave at the AWS Summit in Toronto.  The landing link from my presentation may have brought you here and this post has all the links to the Github repositories, the PDF of the presentation, and also the … Read more

EC2Instances.info – A Handy Interactive Guide to AWS EC2 Instance Sizing and Pricing

One of the most challenging aspects of the AWS ecosystem is navigating the pricing and sizing options when looking at EC2 instances.  Luckily, there is a rather nifty tool out there which has been created by a community member and hosted on GitHub which you can find at http://ec2Instances.info The ec2Instances.info site lets you dig … Read more

Attaching Turbonomic to your AWS Environment

While it’s a seemingly simple task, I wanted to document it quickly and explain one of the very cool things about attaching your Turbonomic instance to AWS.  For the latest release of the TurboStack Cloud Lab giveaway , we wanted to move further up the stack to include the AWS cloud as a target. Even without … Read more