Chaos engineering on Amazon EKS using AWS Fault Injection Simulator

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedChaos engineering on Amazon EKS using AWS Fault Injection Simulator In this post, we discuss how you can use AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS), a fully managed fault injection service used for practicing chaos engineering. AWS FIS supports a range of AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), a managed service…

Optimizing EC2 Workloads with Amazon CloudWatch

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedOptimizing EC2 Workloads with Amazon CloudWatch This post is written by David (Dudu) Twizer, Principal Solutions Architect, and Andy Ward, Senior AWS Solutions Architect – Microsoft Tech. In December 2020, AWS announced the availability of gp3, the next-generation General Purpose SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), which allow customers to provision…

Field Notes: How to Set Up Your Cross-Account and Cross-Region Database for Amazon Aurora

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How to Set Up Your Cross-Account and Cross-Region Database for Amazon Aurora This post was co-written by Ashutosh Pateriya, Solution Architect at AWS and Nirmal Tomar, Principal Consultant at Infosys Technologies Ltd.  Various organizations have stringent regulatory compliance obligations or business requirements that require an effective cross-account and cross-region database setup. We…

Debugging with Dashbird: AWS Lambda Process Exited Before Completing Request

By Dustin Ward

Another generic error message from our favorite FaaS provider AWS Lambda.  And again, there are multiple reasons why this issue could arise. Let’s first look at the basics of AWS Lambda to get a better intuition for when things go wrong later. AWS Lambda is Asynchronous Lambda is an asynchronous event-based service at heart. The Lambda service asynchronously calls your…

Debugging with Dashbird: Lambda Task Timed Out After X Seconds

By Dustin Ward

When building serverless applications, Lambda functions often form the backbone of the system. They might provide just a few lines of code, but these lines are usually what hold the whole architecture composed of many managed services together. Event-driven architecture is what this style is called, and it’s most prevalent in serverless applications. API gateways collect requests…