Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

How to Get Started with Auto-Scaling Container Deployments on AWS ECS

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

AWS’s Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a compute engine specifically designed for Docker containers. You can use it to deploy containers using underlying EC2 instances, or run a server-agnostic deployment on Fargate.Read This Article on CloudSa… Continue reading →

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How to Get Started with CloudWatch for AWS Monitoring

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

CloudWatch is AWS’s monitoring tool. It collects data about the health and usage of all of your AWS services, and allows you to display them on graphs and in custom dashboards, and set alarms when unusual spikes happen.Read This Article on CloudS… Continue reading →

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Automating Continuous Delivery in Containers with CodeBuild, ECR, and CodeDeploy

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is the process of automating application updates, from changes in source control, to automated builds, to automated deployments to your servers. AWS provides a service for this, called CodePipeline, wh… Continue reading →

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Audit Your NPM Dependencies, They Account for 86% of Security Bugs

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

A recent study conducted by Snyk on the state of open-source security has turned up alarming results—for NPM packages, 86% of security vulnerabilities reside in secondary dependencies that you often have little control over.Read This Article on C… Continue reading →

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What Is AWS Glue and How Do You Use It?

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

AWS Glue is a managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that is able to process data stored in S3 or DynamoDB and convert it into different formats or schemas for easier use in other services like Athena.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT &rsa… Continue reading →

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How to Automate Safe Lambda Deployments from Git

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

Lambda has a web-based text editor that you’ve probably used before for writing your functions. It’s great for beginners learning the platform, but it’s not the best way to go about handling updates. Here’s how to track your Lam… Continue reading →

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How to Use AWS VPN to Lock Down Access to Your Servers

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

If you want to run a server in a private subnet, you’ll need to use a VPN to connect to it. AWS VPN is a managed OpenVPN service that can handle this for you, and allow you to lock down public access to your protected instances.Read This Article … Continue reading →

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How to Roll Your Own Dynamic DNS with AWS Route 53

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

If you’ve got servers running at home, you won’t be able to route a domain to them without a static IP address. Instead of paying for a dynamic DNS service, you can build your own using AWS Route 53.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

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How to Use AWS’s API Gateway as a Frontend for Lambda Functions

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

API Gateway is a fully managed service for building, testing, and hosting production APIs. Rather than renting an EC2 server and managing your API server yourself, API Gateway can handle it for you and streamline the whole process.Read This Article on … Continue reading →

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How to Set Up a Custom Domain for AWS’s API Gateway

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Anthony Heddings

AWS’s API Gateway is great as a front end for Lambda functions and other AWS services. However, the default endpoint is a subdomain of amazonaws.com, which isn’t user friendly. We’ll show you how to fix and set up a custom domain.Read… Continue reading →

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