Field Notes: Serverless Container-based APIs with Amazon ECS and Amazon API Gateway

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedField Notes: Serverless Container-based APIs with Amazon ECS and Amazon API Gateway A growing number of organizations choose to build their APIs with Docker containers. For hosting and exposing these container-based APIs, they need a solution which supports HTTP requests routing, autoscaling, and high availability. In some cases, user authorization is also…

CloudZero Simplifies Kubernetes Cost Tracking with Support of AWS SaaS Factory

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCloudZero Simplifies Kubernetes Cost Tracking with Support of AWS SaaS Factory By Merve Soner, SaaS Business Lead at AWS Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) is a key metric for software companies, especially for the ones with software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, helping them to calculate gross margin and demonstrate business performance. COGS is basically…

Cross-account and cross-region deployment using GitHub actions and AWS CDK

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCross-account and cross-region deployment using GitHub actions and AWS CDK GitHub Actions is a feature on GitHub’s popular development platform that helps you automate your software development workflows in the same place you store code and collaborate on pull requests and issues. You can write individual tasks called actions, and combine them…

Analyzing Amazon S3 server access logs using Amazon ES

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnalyzing Amazon S3 server access logs using Amazon ES When you use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store corporate data and host websites, you need additional logging to monitor access to your data and the performance of your application. An effective logging solution enhances security and improves the detection of…

Role-based access control using Amazon Cognito and an external identity provider

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedRole-based access control using Amazon Cognito and an external identity provider Amazon Cognito simplifies the development process by helping you manage identities for your customer-facing applications. As your application grows, some of your enterprise customers may ask you to integrate with their own Identity Provider (IdP) so that their users can sign-on…