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Last week's must-read news and stories from AWS community
CyraBee
 
AWS Weekly Newsletter, Cyrabee. Curated AWS news, tutorials, tools and more!
 
 
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faun.dev faun.dev
 
The 4 key business factors that a SaaS AWS architect must take into account
 
 
Dheeraj Inampudi brainstormed with his business team and came up with the following 4 critical factor that defines success from a business & Tech prespective of the problem (Business → Tech) :
  • User Experience → Latency
  • Total Cost of Ownership → Cost Optimization
  • Security → Security
  • Productivity → Automation
 
 

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🔗 Stories, Tutorials & Articles
 
aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
 
Sign Amazon SNS messages with SHA256 hashing for HTTP subscriptions
 
 
In this blog post, you will see how to enable message signatures based on SHA256 for your Amazon SNS topics.
 
 
www.techopedia.com www.techopedia.com
 
Expert Tips for Your Business Cloud Management Strategy
 
 
What do the experts want you to know about building and maintaining a successful business cloud management strategy?
 
 
aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
 
How to evaluate your Cloud Environment in a well-architected manner
 
 
AWS announcedthe availability of theAWS Well-Architected Management and Governance (M&G) Cloud Environment custom lens.

The Well-Architected M&G Environment Guide (M&G Guide) provides best practices and prescriptive guidance to help customers understand what an AWS landing zone should include, as well as how to prepare it.
 
 
aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
 
Faster Scaling-in for Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling   ✅
 
 
AWS introduced an enhancement to increase the scale-in step limit from 5% to 50% of an Auto Scaling group’s (ASG’s) capacity. In this blog, you will learn more about this improvement and use an example to demonstrate the scale-in time and cost improvements that have resulted from this enhancement.
 
 
sidhurana.medium.com sidhurana.medium.com
 
Key metrics for AWS monitoring
 
 
AWS observability and monitoring is de facto standard in all organizations. There are few important metrics that we should have complete visibility to avoid outages.

This post covers the metrics of the following services:RDS, NAT Gateway, Ec2, ALB, Lambda and also AWS status page check.
 
 
blog.awsfundamentals.com blog.awsfundamentals.com
 
All you need to know about AWS CodeBuild & CodePipeline
 
 
The fundamentals of AWS' reliable, secure & serverless continuous integration and delivery services
 
 
medium.com medium.com
 
Using GCP Media CDN with private AWS storage buckets
 
 
This blog focuses on how Media CDN supports AWS Signature Version 4 tp connect to private Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets.
 
 
aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
 
Monitoring your IoT fleet using CloudWatch
 
 
The steps followed in this post to set up an IoT monitoring are:
  1. Prerequisites
  2. Enable logging for AWS IoT Core
  3. Create a CloudWatch dashboard
  4. Create custom IoT alarms and metrics
  5. View custom metrics and create alarms
  6. Troubleshoot an issue that created the alert
 
 
aws.amazon.com aws.amazon.com
 
Scale modern serverless applications with Amazon RDS Proxy for SQL Server
 
 
In this post, the author talks about how Amazon RDS Proxy with RDS for SQL Server can help mitigate these issues to make your application more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure.
 
 
commoncog.com commoncog.com
 
Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice
 
 
What it's like putting Amazon's famed Working Backwards process to practice in a small company context, and what was surprising and difficult about it.
 
 
 
📺 Quick Hits
 
 
AWS announced a research alliance with Harvard University to address the fundamental scientific challenges associated with building quantum networks.
 
 
AWS Config announces a price reduction up to 58% for conformance packs.
 
 
Amazon DynamoDB transactions enable coordinated, all-or-nothing changes to multiple items both within and across tables. The maximum number of actions in a single transaction has now increased from 25 to 100.
 
 
An additional 5 AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controllers have graduated to generally available status. Customers can now provision and manage AWS resources using ACK controllers for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), and AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
 
 
AWS announced the public preview release of new data protection capabilities for Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), message data protection. This is a new way to discover and protect sensitive data in motion at scale, without writing custom code.
 
 
Amazon SWF has launched a new console experience, making it easier for you to manage SWF workflows with more visibility and control.
 
 
AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Fargate allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. 
 
 
AWS announced the general availability of AWS Incident Detection and Response, that offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management for their selected workloads.
 
 
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) announced CDK Construct tree view in the AWS CloudFormation console.
 
 
⚙️ Tools, Apps & Software
 
github.com github.com
 
arbade/terraform-aws-vpc-module
 
 
AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Module via Terraform & Unit Test Case via GoLang.
 
 
github.com github.com
 
aws-samples/aws-mainframe-modernization-carddemo
 
 
Card Demo is a Mainframe application designed and developed to test and showcase AWS and partner technology for mainframe migration and modernization use-cases such as discovery, migration, modernization, performance test, augmentation, service enablement, service extraction, test creation, test harness, etc.
 
 
github.com github.com
 
awslabs/terraform-iam-policy-validator
 
 
A command line tool that validates AWS IAM Policies in a Terraform template against AWS IAM best practices
 
 
github.com github.com
 
Grunet/cfn-trace
 
 
Captures Cloudformation nested stack deploy events as traces
 
 

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