Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

As an aspiring game developer, this is the single biggest question you must answer before beginning your project. Your game engine effects how you build your game, what kinds of issues you may run into, and even how much money you make.Read This Articl… Continue reading →

Two main ways exist to manage employee access to your company AWS account—IAM users and AWS Organizations. Both have their uses, but it’s important to highlight the differences while planning your AWS permission structure.Read This Article … Continue reading →

GameLift is a platform built by AWS specifically created for running video game servers. It is built to save costs by automatically scaling the number of instances based on the fluctuating demand, and it can also handle matchmaking for you.Read This Ar… Continue reading →

Spot Instances are designed around fluctuating workloads with flexible start and end times. But when used with Auto Scaling, it can make for a replacement for On-Demand instances at a fraction of the cost.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

Data migration can be an slow and arduous process. Even over a gigabit link, it can take months to move huge datasets. AWS Snowball provides a physical device you can fill up on-site and ship back to AWS for import into S3.Read This Article on CloudSa… Continue reading →

If you know you’re going to be using an EC2 instance for a long time, you can commit to a yearly contract to buy the instance at a huge discount when compared to the On-Demand price.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

AWS Lex is Amazon’s service for building your own chatbots. Built using the same machine-learning technology as Alexa, Lex can recognize user intent, query for additional data, and then fulfill user requests using Lambda for code execution.Read T… Continue reading →

CodeCommit is AWS’s managed source control solution. It’s a crucial component in AWS’s CodeSuite CI/CD pipeline, which makes it easy to run frequent code builds and deploy application updates programmatically to your EC2 servers or La… Continue reading →

IAM Users and Roles both enable you to manage access to your AWS resources with specific sets of permissions, but the two types of IAM access are used differently in practice. In this article, we explain the differences and how to use them.Read This Ar… Continue reading →

If you want to allow servers in your network access to internal S3 buckets, without making the objects within them open to the internet, whitelisting access with a bucket policy is a simple solution to allow downloading files from an internal bucket.Re… Continue reading →