Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

Chances are, you probably don’t need a full web server like NGINX running on EC2 to get your website up and running. If you’re just looking to host a static website, you can store all the content in S3, and host it from there.Read This Arti… Continue reading →

CloudWatch is commonly used for log processing and monitoring of your AWS resources, but it also has powerful tools for automation from within your account. We’ll show how to set up and work with CloudWatch Events.Read This Article on CloudSavvy … Continue reading →

Hosting your website using S3 is fairly common practice on AWS. It’s cheap, requires no servers, and even supports client-side web apps with frameworks like React. To make things easier, we’ll set up a deployment pipeline to handle updates…. Continue reading →

Docker is a containerization service, designed for running apps in their own environment on any system. It’s intended to be platform-agnostic, but if you need to store data on a disk, that can be done with volume and bind mounts.Read This Article… Continue reading →

EBS is a block storage service offered by AWS. If you’re running an EC2 instance, you’re definitely using it, as it serves as the storage disk for your server. However, it’s not safe from failures, and you should still do regular back… Continue reading →

This week, AWS announced IVS, a managed solution for handling live video, likely based on some of the same software that powers the streaming giant Twitch. It offers an easy way to integrate live video into existing applications without the headaches … Continue reading →

Visual Studio has a handy feature for running commands before or after builds. This can be used to automate some of your development process, such as pulling in dependencies during the prebuild phase, or sending build artifacts to development environme… Continue reading →

Powershell is a useful tool for automation in Windows. AWS provides CLI tools for Powershell, including a full interface for their Simple Storage Service. If you want to automate sending files to S3 buckets, it’s pretty simple.Read This Article o… Continue reading →

If you’re currently struggling on the sysadmin side of things to keep all your servers up to date, it may be time to take some of the weight off your shoulders and automate your delivery process with a continuous deployment pipeline.Read This Art… Continue reading →

CodeBuild is a managed build service, similar in function to Jenkins but focused specifically on automating building and testing. It can be used in conjunction with CodePipeline to build a fully automated CI/CD Pipeline.Read This Article on CloudSavvy… Continue reading →