Tutorial: How to Extend AWS CloudFormation with Lambda

AWS CloudFormation is an amazing infrastructure management tool that allows you to define requests for resources in a domain-specific templating language. CloudFormation has built-in binary logic within the template in …

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Anatomy of a Self-Healing App on AWS

One of the great things about the cloud is that it enables you to scale workloads so that you pay only for what you use. But another important benefit that …

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Why an EC2 Instance Isn’t a Server

At Re:Invent, the AWS conference in Vegas last November, Amazon’s CTO, Werner Vogels, made an interesting observation during his keynote address: “An EC2 instance is not a server—it’s a building …

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