Control developer account costs with AWS CloudFormation and AWS Budgets

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedControl developer account costs with AWS CloudFormation and AWS Budgets Often when working with customers, we guide them by using AWS Budgets and related tools in the AWS platform in order to create cost and utilization guardrails. These tools can be used to conduct advanced, automated, and hands-free actions within your AWS environment –…

How to approach conversation design: Getting started with Amazon Lex (Part 2)

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow to approach conversation design: Getting started with Amazon Lex (Part 2) As you plan your new Amazon Lex application, the following conversation design best practices can help your team succeed in creating a great customer experience. In our previous post, we discussed how to create the foundation for good conversation design. We explored…

Operating serverless at scale: Improving consistency – Part 2

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedOperating serverless at scale: Improving consistency – Part 2 This post is written by Jerome Van Der Linden, Solutions Architect. Part one of this series describes how to maintain visibility on your AWS resources to operate them properly. This second part focuses on provisioning these resources. It is relatively easy to create serverless resources.…

AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 – v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS CDK releases v1.121.0 – v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control During September, 2021, 5 new versions of the AWS Cloud Development Kit  (CDK) for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, .NET and Go were released (v1.121.0 through v.125.0). With these releases, the CDK CLI now has support for…

Continuous monitoring with Sumo Logic using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoints

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedContinuous monitoring with Sumo Logic using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoints Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose streams data to AWS destinations such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service). Additionally, Kinesis Data Firehose supports destinations to third-party partners. This ability to send data…