Auto-scaling is the capability built into AWS that allows you to ensure you have the right number of EC2 instances provisioned to handle the load of your application. Using Auto-scaling, you can remove the guess work in selecting how many EC2 instances are required to provide an acceptable level of performance for your application without over-provisioning resources and incurring unnecessary costs.

If you are using AWS to build solutions that consist of more than a handful of resources you will appreciate the need for accurate AWS VPC Diagrams. The best form of documentation to be able to easily communicate how your AWS network is constructed is a network topology diagram.

If you are using AWS to build solutions that consist of more than a handful of resources you will appreciate the need for accurate network documentation. By far, the best form of documentation to be able to easily communicate how your AWS network is constructed is a network topology diagram.

AWS Fargate is a service that provisions serverless compute resources to run AWS ECS and EKS containers.  AWS states that Fargate allows you to focus on building your applications when you let Fargate provision and manage the infrastructure required. Think of it as containers on-demand with no underlying manually created infrastructure that are quick to launch and scale, where you manage everything at the container level.

AWS Lambda is a service that allows you to run code and containers without the need to set up, manage or provision servers. Lambda runs your code on highly available compute cloud infrastructure via Functions.  Lambda takes care of server and OS maintenance, scaling, code monitoring and activity/error logging.

This month AWS announced the release of App Runner which is a fully managed container-native service designed to make it easier for developers to quickly deploy APIs, micro-services, and web applications using source code repositories and container images. 

When you are monitoring your AWS infrastructure for security alerts, not all security signals can be remediated automatically. Large or complex environments can generate multiple security flags (repeatedly) that need to be manually investigated in detail.  This requires access to sometimes complex metadata to thoroughly investigate which may place a strain on your in-house security skills or may even require you to find the budget for a dedicated security expert.

In this Post we will look at a high level overview of all the different AWS container services you can use on AWS. If you want to run a containerized application on AWS you have multiple options to choose from depending on your application requirements, AWS Security and orchestration software preferences.

Along side the hundreds of AWS resources we recently detailed in this AWS Services List, Amazon also provides a stack of developer and DevOps tools to help you build, deploy, manage and monitor applications on the AWS cloud.

This is a list of a few of our favourite AWS Developer Tools. 

AWS Developer Tools