AWS

Amazon Web Services provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis with a free-tier option available for 12 months.

Nov 17 2017

Problems with AWS API Gateway stemmed from CloudFront

API Gateway is a service offered by AWS and was established originally as a code fork of thier CloudFront service and has evolved separately ever since. Although an interesting fact there has been little evidence to show any sort of relationship between the 2 services since API Gateway was released.

Nov 28 2016

AWS EC2 Scaling gotchas no one told you

Here are some things I wish someone told me before I needed to manage over 5 million connections a day, 35k concurrently on average (Melbourne Cup). If that sounds like a lot to you, it is, the Commonwealth Bank had less than 1 million hits a day this month [https:

Jul 02 2016

AWS Autoscaling Best Practices

Welcome to Auto Scaling in the Amazon Cloud If the fundamental premise of the "cloud" is > use only the resources you need for as long as you need them So for a website you save money when traffic is low; dynamic scaling based on traffic. Enterprise SaaS is great for