#awswithoutthefluff

Development and testing environments are often left running all night, all weekend and sometimes long...

Passwords, API keys and tokens should not be hard-coded into applications or committed to Git. AWS...

Infrastructure as Code lets you define cloud resources using code. Tools such as AWS CloudFormation...

They package code and its dependencies so the application can run consistently across...

Amazon SNS says: “I will announce the message to everyone subscribed.” Amazon SQS says: “I will hold...

Imagine an online shop where every order must wait for the invoice, email and stock update to finish...

How long can the system be unavailable? How much data can we afford to lose? The first answer helps...

Multi-AZ distributes a workload across Availability Zones within one AWS Region. Multi-Region uses...

Creating backups is only the first step. You must also know: What is being backed up? How...

People remember names such as example.com. Computers communicate using IP addresses. Amazon Route...

If your users are far from where content is hosted, every request has further to travel. Amazon...

An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud allows you to create an isolated network for your AWS...