Posts on AWS.
AWS Redshift is a big data storage (“data warehousing”) solution for analytics. Based on PostgreSQL 8, it can combine up to 128 largest nodes, giving you 2 petabytes for your data. Well, almost. You don’t get ALL that for your data.
Since publishing this post, AWS reached out to us about the RR pricing. See bottom of the post for the update.
When storing data in S3, at some point everyone asks the question about storage classes. At first glance it looks more or less simple - if you’re accessing your data less often, or it’s not very important, you can pay less. Until you look into details, find all the asterisks and compare the actual numbers.
Last week I made an attempt at passing one of the new AWS Specialty exams - Security.
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.
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 - see deploying API Gateway and
Lambda with CloudFormation for the basic
setup. 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.
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