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Amazon Prime Video reduced costs by 90% by ditching Microservices

If any of you have been outside recently, you might have come across streams of salt water, particularly if you live near Silicon Valley. Scientists have finally found the cause of this. Those salty streams and puddles you have been wading through are the tears of the Microservices bros...

Amazon Prime Video reduced costs by 90% by ditching Microservices

Amazon QLDB For Online Booking – Our Experience After 3 Years In Production

Back in 2021, my cofounders and I started a business to simplify building internet booking experiences. We think that online booking for hotels and vacation rentals is broken for both consumers and producers and created LODGEA as the Shopify for hotels and vacation rentals. ...

The Secret to Startup Success: It’s Not About Being Amazon, It’s About Starting Like Amazon

“I’m building Amazon for the travel industry,” an entrepreneur told me as we sipped coffees. He was in his early 20s, and, technically, he didn’t say he was building Amazon for the travel industry. His vision involves a completely different industry, but he’s still work...

9 Things I’ve Learned Working From Home for Amazon

Just over a year ago, I transferred into a work-from-home (WFH) role at Amazon. I’ve spent my entire career there in warehouses, working in, or directly supporting, the operation. I was excited about the WFH opportunity. It was novel and I was looking forward to learning a new skillset. Mov...

Start Amazon KDP with Just 1 Hour a Day

Are you keen on starting Amazon KDP or struggling to find time amidst a packed schedule? Believe it or not, just an hour a day can set you on the path to KDP success. As someone who embarked on the KDP journey while juggling a full-time job, I’m here to share my time management strategy....

Unleash the Power of Generative AI with Amazon Bedrock

In a ground-breaking announcement earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced “Amazon Bedrock,” a revolutionary addition to the world of generative AI. This fully managed service promises to reshape the way developers, data scientists, and businesses approach the development ...

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What happens when Amazon rolls back from serverless?

Unless you've been living under a rock recently, the entire serverless world has been shaken when "even Amazon" apparently decided to move away from serverless. Let's take a deep breath and try to understand things for what they are, not what someone would like them to be. Long ...

How to use Amazon EBS?

Unblock your EBS storage. Although you access a EBS volume via its instances like a hard drive, you can use it as system drive or a primary data storage for apps. EBS volumes persist independent of your EC2 instance life. You can also dynamically increase size, modify provisioned IOPS, and change be...

Optimizing Amazon API Gateway use: Strategies for Effective Usage Plans

Quotas and why do you need them? API quotas are restrictions placed on the maximum number of requests that can be made to an API in a specific time period, typically a day or a month. Some restrictions have been put in place to ensure that the API is used fairly by all users and to prevent ser...

Amazon EKS Upgrade Journey From 1.23 to 1.24

We are now welcoming “Stargazer”. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.24. Overview EKS finally announced support for Kubernetes version 1.24 . I am mega excited for everybody to experience the power of the “Stargazer” relea...

My Secrets to Cracking the $275K Amazon Interview

Are you eyeing a career at Amazon with a lucrative salary of $275,000 or more? The prospect of working at one of the world’s tech giants is undoubtedly enticing, but landing such a role involves navigating a rigorous interview process. Fear not; I’m here to share the secrets that can ...

Generating Mermaid Syntax Diagrams with AI-powered Amazon Bedrock

Introduction In today’s fast-paced development environment, efficient communication and collaboration are key to successful projects. In this article, we’ll explore how the power of generative AI, particularly with Amazon Bedrock, can revolutionise the way cross-functional engineering...

Amazon EKS Upgrade Journey From 1.27 to 1.28- welcoming Planternetes

We are now welcoming “Planternetes” release. Process and considerations while upgrading EKS control-plane to version 1.28. Overview I shall start slightly different this time. We are welcoming “Planternetes” to this world. It is a release which consists of 45 enhanc...

AWS — Difference between Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS

Amazon Aurora Amazon Aurora is a fully managed MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora...

Amazon SQS Retry with Backoff Strategy using DynamoDB

Before we go into details on retry strategy, let’s first understand two important features Amazon SQS supports and their hard limits. Visibility Timeout: In simple terms, once the message is consumed for processing by a consumer, it will be visible to other consumers only after the configur...

Installing CronTab on Amazon Linux 2023 EC2

Introduction: Hello! We encountered an issue while attempting to install crontab on Amazon Linux 2023 EC2 instances. Unfortunately, crontab is not available by default in these instances. This blog post will delve into the issue and provide a step-by-step workaround to successfully install crontab o...

Understanding Real-Time Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

In the world of fast-paced data-driven environments, the need for real-time data processing has become more critical than ever. One of the most powerful solutions that AWS offers for real-time data streaming is Amazon Kinesis. In this article, we’ll delve into the world of Amazon Kinesis, unde...

AWS SAA-25: Amazon SNS

Simple Notification Service The “event producer” only sends message to one SNS topic As many “event receivers” (subscription) as we want to listen to the SNS topic notification Each subscriber to the topic will get all the messages (note: new feature to filter messag...

Migration of a Workload running in a Corporate Data Center to AWS using the Amazon EC2 and RDS service.

In this project, which mirrors a real-world scenario, I assumed the role of a Cloud Specialist tasked with migrating a workload from a Corporate DataCenter to AWS. This migration involved relocating both the application and database using the Lift & Shift (rehost) model, including all associated...

Amazon EKS Upgrade Journey From 1.24 to 1.25

This Kubernetes 1.25 release was chosen to recognize both the diverse components that the project comprises and the individuals who contributed to it. Hence, the fitting release name, “Combiner”. Combiner highlights the collaborative nature of open source and its impact, both in general ...

Amazon EKS Upgrade Journey From 1.23 to 1.24

How to create a 2-tier Amazon VPC using Terraform

VPC is a powerful feature of AWS that allows you to build secure, isolated, and customizable network environments in the cloud, giving you full control over your network architecture and enabling seamless integration with other AWS services. Introduction to Amazon VPC VPC stands for Vi...

Simplifying Kafka Cluster Deployment: Step-by-Step Guide with Amazon MSK and Terraform

This is the second article of the series “Building a managed streaming data pipeline”. If you haven’t read the first one, I leave the link here for you to have a look: Unleash the Spark: Create an Amazon EMR Serverless Cluster with Terraform and run PySpark jobs Ignite Your D...

Installing CronTab on Amazon Linux 2023 EC2

The Amazon Rainforest: A Deadly Beauty

The Amazon rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” is a captivating and breathtaking ecosystem that spans across nine South American countries, including Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. It’s renowned for its immense biodiversity and lush landscapes, but beneath its s...

How Amazon and Apple Do It

“Congress could act tomorrow to shut down tax haven abuse by revoking laws that enable and encourage the practice of shifting money into offshore tax havens.” Richard Phillips, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy This is the seventh in a series on offshore tax dodging. The fi...

The 2,500-Year-Old Lost Cities of Amazon

Gaspar de Carvajal, a Spanish missionary, joined an expedition that set out from Ecuador in 1542 in quest of the fabled cinnamon valley of La Canela. When the explorers landed in the Amazon River estuary, the Spanish came in contact with the indigenous people who lived in the rainforests. Friar C...

What Do We Know About the Rediscovered Lost Cities of the Amazon?

The vast and enigmatic Amazon rainforest has long been a treasure trove of undiscovered secrets, its verdant depths concealing the remains of ancient civilizations that once thrived within its borders. In recent years, groundbreaking technological advancements have illuminated a new chapter in our u...

Valley of Lost Cities Found in Ecuadorian Amazon

Narrative A, as provided by Le Monde. This international study seems to corroborate the centuries-old descriptions of Francisco de Orellana and Gaspar de Carvajal about pre-Hispanic urban networks in the forest, which were long thought to be fabricated. It’s fantastic that the lidar remot...

My own private Amazon

As an environmental scientist working at an Australian university, I’m scarred by the thousands of cuts inflicted upon the natural world and those institutions and individuals entrusted to monitor its wellbeing. A colleague quipped that being a biologist in the 21st century was like being a cu...

Dropping Physical Stock and Switching to Amazon Associate Links

t has been 2.5 years since I outsourced my 3D Print based manufacturing and there has been a huge pain-point in fulfillment ever since. Even though I have much less work not having to print the items in house, stocking third party accessories has become a chore. Ever since I launched my store,...

Top 5 Amazon Side Hustles in 2024: KDP, FBA, Merch & More

Do you have a knack for storytelling? Or, perhaps a trove of valuable knowledge to share? Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is your gateway to becoming a published author without the traditional publishing gatekeepers. KDP allows you to release eBooks, paperbacks, and even audiobooks on the Amazon plat...

Amazon Essentials: The Undercover Jeans

I wanted a certain kind of grey jeans that would remind me of heavily washed black, the kind I recall from childhood, when originally jet-black unwashed denim would gradually acquire its grey. Seeing it on the street made me long for the Levis I wore as a teen. As I’m no longer a kid, I didn&r...

Organize in Style: The Best Makeup Organizers on Amazon

Introduction In the world of beauty, organization is the key to unleashing your creativity. A well-organized makeup collection not only saves time but also elevates your beauty routine. If you’re on the lookout for the best makeup organizers, Amazon has an impressive array of options to sui...

¡Bienvenidos to Amazon Fire TV, PrendeTV!

I was surprised to learn that 49% of bilingual and 74% of Spanish-dominant Hispanics wish there was more Spanish-language content. But it made me realize that I too was looking for binge-able shows and movies to watch en español and was absolutely over the moon to find out Univision’s n...

Everything You Need To Know About Amazon GPT66x

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), Amazon's GPT66X stands as a testament to innovation. This cutting-edge technology not only shatters stereotypes but also paves the way for a new era of human-machine interaction. Let's delve into the...

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