Blog category: AWS
First thoughts on Amazon Lightsail
December 2, 2016 by Paweł Biernacki
On the last AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas Amazon introduced several new products. One of them is Lightsail - a simply priced solution dedicated to VPS fans. But is it really Digital Ocean killer?
What you need to know before using Packer's automatic spot instance biding
November 28, 2016 by Paweł Biernacki
Packer has the ability to auto-bid on spot instance prices for AWS EC2 but there are two things that you need to
understand that may discourage you from using that feature.
Deploying API Gateway and Lambda with CloudFormation
November 21, 2016 by Paulina Budzoń
Combination of AWS API Gateway and Lambda functions is a flag example of every “serverless infrastructure”. When deploying API Gateway with CloudFormation there are two different ways you can define your API: via Swagger template or by directly defining your methods in CloudFormation template.
What's broken when deploying Lambda and API Gateway via CloudFormation
November 14, 2016 by Paulina Budzoń
AWS Lambda and API Gateway are becoming synonymous with “serverless infrastructure” and getting more and more popular.
To deploy them in repeatable way, one of the tools I recommend is CloudFormation. There are many ways you can define
your API and your Lambda, but when connecting the two with CloudFormation there’s usually something that many people
miss, and only notice when {"message": "Internal server error"} is thrown from their API Gateway endpoint.
Packer, Ansible, CentOS and requiretty
November 11, 2016 by Paulina Budzoń
If you’ve tried running Packer with CentOS on AWS, you probably noticed this:
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
