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Chaos Engineering on AWS: Your First Experiment with AWS FIS
A hands-on introduction to chaos engineering on AWS. Deploy a product catalog API backed by Aurora, then break it with AWS Fault Injection Service to find the gap between your architecture diagram and reality.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Observability and Stop Conditions with CloudWatch and FIS
Add CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and FIS stop conditions to your chaos engineering lab. See how guardrails automatically abort experiments when things go wrong.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Database Resilience with Aurora Failover, RDS Proxy, and Read/Write Separation
Force an Aurora failover with AWS FIS and watch your application break. Then fix it with RDS Proxy, read/write separation, and retry logic. Real Terraform code, real experiment results.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Graceful Degradation with Circuit Breakers, SQS, and a DynamoDB Cache
When the database is completely gone, RDS Proxy and retries cannot help. Survive an extended Aurora outage with a circuit breaker, a DynamoDB read cache, and SQS write buffering. Real Terraform, real outage, real numbers.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: CPU, Memory, and Network Faults with AWS FIS and SSM
Inject CPU stress, memory pressure, network latency, and packet loss into a whole EC2 fleet with AWS FIS. Watch network faults turn a healthy service into 7-second page loads while every error dashboard stays green. Real Terraform, real numbers.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Surviving an Availability Zone Failure with FIS and Static Stability
Take down an entire Availability Zone with AWS FIS: stop every instance in it, blackhole its subnet, and fail Aurora over. See whether a multi-AZ architecture really survives, and the roughly two-minute window that static stability does not erase.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Dependency and API Faults with FIS
Sever the DynamoDB and S3 endpoints an application quietly depends on, using AWS FIS, and watch whether one dependency outage stays contained or takes the whole app down. Real Terraform, real per-endpoint numbers.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Containers and Serverless with FIS (ECS Fargate and Lambda)
Leave EC2 behind. Stop a whole Fargate task set and force AWS Lambda invocations to error and to stall, using AWS FIS. Real Terraform, real numbers, and the exact setup gotchas for the Lambda fault-injection extension.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Multi-Region Disaster Recovery and Measuring Real RPO
Stop talking about disaster recovery and measure it. Pause DynamoDB global table replication with AWS FIS while a live two-Region application keeps writing, then count exactly how many records the surviving Region cannot see. Real Terraform, real RPO, real recovery time.
Chaos Engineering on AWS: Running a Program with GameDays and Continuous Chaos
One experiment is a demo. A program is what builds resilience. Turn FIS experiments into an ongoing practice: the resilience flywheel, GameDays, continuous automated chaos on a schedule and in CI/CD, and AWS Resilience Hub. Includes a real, validated EventBridge Scheduler setup and the jsonencode gotcha that makes a recurring schedule silently run only once.
awsmap — Find Everything Running in Your AWS Account
A CLI tool that scans 140+ AWS services across all regions in about 130 seconds, generating HTML, JSON, or CSV inventory reports for audits, cost analysis, and security reviews.
The $10 Billion Mistake That Revolutionized Computing Forever (And Why Your USB Drive Is Now a Museum Piece)
From forgotten USB drives to the cloud revolution: how Drew Houston's bus ride and Amazon S3's launch changed computing forever, validated by Instagram's $1B acquisition.
Setting Up Your AWS Developer Environment with Python Automation
A practical guide to configuring AWS CLI v2, Boto3, and secure credential management for professional cloud development.
IAM Policies Mastery: From Zero to Advanced Permission Control
Deep dive into AWS IAM policies covering policy types, evaluation logic, condition keys, advanced patterns, and common pitfalls with real-world examples.
HashiCorp Vault with AWS: What It Is and Why Dynamic Secrets Matter
Understanding HashiCorp Vault, why traditional credential management is broken, how dynamic secrets work, and hands-on setup of the AWS secrets engine with role-based credential generation.
Vault Authentication and Python Integration: From AppRole to Production Code
Deep dive into Vault authentication methods including AppRole and AWS IAM auth, with a complete Python application that uses dynamic AWS credentials transparently.
Production Vault Deployment on AWS: From Terraform to Monitoring
Complete guide to deploying HashiCorp Vault in production on AWS with Terraform, KMS auto-unseal, Raft storage, TLS, load balancing, auto scaling, monitoring, and backup strategies.
EC2 Getting Started: Launch Your First Virtual Server on AWS
Step-by-step guide to launching, configuring, and managing your first Amazon EC2 instance, covering instance types, security groups, key pairs, SSH access, web server setup, monitoring, and cost management.
EC2 Instance Types Deep Dive: Choosing the Right Machine for Any Workload
Master EC2 instance type selection. Learn instance families, burstable instances and CPU credits, purchasing options, enhanced networking, placement groups, and right-sizing strategies.
EC2 Networking and Security: Build Bulletproof Cloud Infrastructure
Master EC2 networking and security. Learn VPCs, subnets, security groups, NACLs, NAT gateways, VPC endpoints, SSH hardening, load balancers, and defense-in-depth architecture.
AWS Lambda Deep Dive: Serverless Computing from First Function to Production
Complete guide to AWS Lambda covering the execution model, deployment options, triggers, cold starts, concurrency, pricing, and production architecture patterns.
Amazon S3 Deep Dive: Object Storage from Basics to Production
Complete guide to Amazon S3 covering the object model, storage classes, security, encryption, lifecycle policies, replication, performance optimization, and cost management.
Amazon RDS Deep Dive: Managed Relational Databases on AWS
Complete guide to Amazon RDS and Aurora covering supported engines, Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, backups, security, monitoring, Aurora architecture, and production best practices.
Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: NoSQL at Any Scale
Complete guide to Amazon DynamoDB covering data modeling, primary keys, secondary indexes, capacity modes, transactions, streams, global tables, DAX caching, and production best practices.
Amazon API Gateway Deep Dive: Build and Manage APIs at Any Scale
Complete guide to Amazon API Gateway covering REST API vs HTTP API, Lambda integration, authorization, custom domains, throttling, caching, WebSocket APIs, and production best practices.
Amazon CloudWatch Deep Dive: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability on AWS
Complete guide to Amazon CloudWatch covering metrics, alarms, Logs Insights, CloudWatch Agent, dashboards, anomaly detection, Synthetics, Container Insights, X-Ray tracing, EMF, and cost optimization.
Containers on AWS: ECR, ECS, and Fargate Deep Dive (Part 1/3)
Complete guide to running containers on AWS with ECR, ECS, and Fargate. Covers task definitions, services, networking, load balancing, IAM roles, service discovery, logging, and CloudFormation deployment.
ECS Production Patterns: Deployments, Auto-Scaling, and CI/CD (Part 2/3)
Production patterns for Amazon ECS covering rolling updates, blue-green deployments with CodeDeploy, auto-scaling, Fargate Spot, secrets management, CI/CD pipelines, AWS Batch, and cost optimization.
EKS: Kubernetes on AWS Deep Dive (Part 3/3)
Complete guide to Amazon EKS covering cluster creation with eksctl, managed node groups, Fargate on EKS, Kubernetes manifests, IRSA, EKS Pod Identity, AWS Load Balancer Controller, Karpenter autoscaling, and the ECS vs EKS decision guide.
Amazon SQS and SNS Deep Dive: Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture on AWS
Complete guide to Amazon SQS and SNS covering standard and FIFO queues, dead-letter queues, SNS fan-out, message filtering, Lambda integration, encryption, pricing, and event-driven architecture patterns.
Amazon CloudFront Deep Dive: CDN, Caching, and Edge Computing on AWS
Complete guide to Amazon CloudFront covering S3 origins with OAC, cache policies, path-based routing, origin failover, CloudFront Functions, Lambda@Edge, WAF, signed URLs, invalidation, pricing, and monitoring.
AWS AI and ML Services: Add Intelligence to Your Applications
Complete guide to AWS AI services including Rekognition, Comprehend, Textract, Polly, Translate, Transcribe, and Bedrock with CLI commands, pricing, and production best practices.
AWS Cost Optimization: Reduce Your Cloud Bill Without Sacrificing Performance
Complete guide to AWS cost optimization covering Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, Savings Plans, Spot Instances, S3 lifecycle policies, gp2 to gp3 migration, scheduling, budgets, and production best practices.
AWS Architecture Patterns: Proven Blueprints for Scalable Cloud Applications
Six production-proven AWS architecture patterns: three-tier web apps, serverless APIs, event-driven processing, static websites, data lakes, and multi-region disaster recovery with diagrams and implementation guides.
I Just Became an AWS Community Builder ... And I Owe It to You
A thank you to my readers, and a call to support open source AWS tools.
awsmap v1.5.0: Your AWS Inventory Now Has a Brain
A few weeks ago I published awsmap. Scan your AWS account. 140 services. One command. This is v1.5.0 with SQLite storage, natural language queries, pre-built security audits, and multi-account support.
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