Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

PEM is a container file format often used to store cryptographic keys. It’s used for many different things, as it simply defines the structure and encoding type of the file used to store a bit of data.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

Bandwidth costs money, and streaming video out from CloudFront is very pricey. You can cut down on that cost by transcoding your videos beforehand with AWS’s Elastic Transcoder, which processes videos to cut down on file size.Read This Article on… Continue reading →

OAuth gets rid of the need to store confidential user passwords on your server. Instead, the user trusts you to access their basic profile information from a service like Google, who handles the authentication for you.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT… Continue reading →

AMIs are similar to operating system ISOs but are more than a simple OS. They are base templates that you can build on top of; they contain the OS, preinstalled software, and configuration files that the server needs to function.Read This Article on Cl… Continue reading →

It’s surprising, but AWS is currently maintaining a fork of CryEngine, ever since they bought the rights to use it from CryTek in 2015. They’ve released it entirely for free as “Lumberyard,” and it features many integrations wit… Continue reading →

Log aggregation and analysis is a huge field, with entire product stacks being built around it to make it easier. AWS’s CloudWatch service collects usage metrics automatically, but it can also be configured to aggregate logs from your EC2 instanc… Continue reading →

Elasticsearch is an open source search engine. It’s commonly used in conjunction with log aggregation to make analyzing server logs easy. AWS offers it as a managed service along with Kibana, a visualization dashboard for Elasticsearch.Read This … Continue reading →

Cloud9 is a full browser-based IDE with many AWS integrations and built in support for over 40 languages. It’s particularly great for working with Lambda functions, and provides an easy way to test and iterate on them in the same environment as p… Continue reading →

Companies are complicated, and it requires significantly more setup to manage the AWS accounts of hundreds of people. In this article, we discuss the best practices for managing secure access to your organization’s resources without hindering you… Continue reading →

Messaging queues are used to transmit short messages between disconnected services. They can be used for communication in microservices as well as distributed systems that need to be kept in sync. We’ll discuss the fundamentals, as well as how to… Continue reading →