Welcome to Part 2 of the Cloudcraft API series! If you haven’t configured Postman and Cloudcraft yet, check out Part 1.
The goal of this part is to:
How do you choose the best storage option on AWS?
Choosing storage service is critical when designing a cloud architecture. Read on to learn about the characteristics, limitations, typical use cases, and a decision tree for the following options to store data on AWS:
continue readingPreviously, I compared all database options offered by AWS for you. In this post, I compare the available messaging options. The goal of messaging on AWS is to decouple the producers of messages from consumers.
The messaging pattern allows us to process the messages asynchronously. This has several advantages. You can roll out a new version of consumers of messages while the producers can continue to send new messages at full speed. You can also scale the consumers independently from the producers. You get some kind of buffer in your system that can absorb spikes without overloading it.
In this blog post, I introduce all the messaging options that AWS offers. Afterward, I end with a comparison table of the options.
continue readingThis is part one of a three part series that will demonstrate how the Cloudcraft API can be used to programmatically snapshot your AWS applications and workloads. These Image or JSON snapshots may be embedded in your Confluence page, Wiki, or HTML page ensuring readers of your documentation always have an up-to-date solution architecture diagram.
continue readingAndy Jassy, CEO of AWS, proclaimed #DBFreedom, aka use whatever database you like. AWS offers them all. At least, that’s what AWS marketing wants us to understand.
continue readingDespite the Kubernetes and Serverless hypes, the vast majority of cloud workloads still happen on virtual machines. AWS offers the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, where you can launch virtual machines (AWS calls them instances). The EC2 service has evolved over 13 years. More performance, lower and less volatile latencies, and easier management are just some of the innovations of the last years. This blog post demonstrates how you can build modern architectures on EC2 and comes with ten tips to avoid the common pitfalls.
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