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DynamoDB in 15 minutes

In this post I’ll introduce DynamoDB, a very powerful fully managed NoSQL wide-column data store in AWS. We will talk about data structures, the APIs to read and write data, indexes, as well as performance and cost considerations. In the end you wil

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Insider Story - Melanie Kluger

We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our new series “Insider Stories” Melanie will tell you how she found her way to the company as well as how she experiences working for tecRacer.

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How boto3 impacts the cold start times of your Lambda functions

Many Lambda functions are written in Python and use the AWS SDK boto3. Initializing your first boto3 client or resource can take a long time after a Lambda cold start. In this article we explore how much exactly and why it’s up to 10x faster on Lamb

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Analyzing CloudWatch Costs

Amazon CloudWatch is a managed service for storing, visualizing and analyzing logs and metrics data of applications and AWS infrastructure. The service is simple to configure and use and is priced based on usage. Thus, adoption is generally both easy and

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Online Lehren und Lernen ein Erfahrungsaustausch mit Lehrenden und der AWS Usergroup Hannover Di 2. März 2021 15:00 - ca. 18:00

Online Lehren und Lernen - ein Erfahrungsaustausch mit Lehrenden und der AWS Usergroup Hannover Nicht nur für AWS Interessierte, sondern für alle Lehrenden und Netzwerkenden, die von persönlichem Kontakt zu Online Veranstaltungen umstellen mussten.

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(Prevent) Hacking into a CloudService - About security, ECS and terraform AWS UserGroup Hannover Online Meetup Feb, 4th 2021

Yoni: Oftentimes, when we think about protecting resources in the cloud, we immediately think about the typical ways in - via public-facing applications or abuse of credentials. In this talk, we will look at one additional way: through the work unit param

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Hands on: Migrating from PostgreSQL to MySQL with the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Database migrations can be a complex and time consuming task. This is particularly true for heterogeneous database migrations. Today we will see how the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) can be a life saver for both homogeneous and heterogeneous migrat

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Why I had to update my mental model of DynamoDB streams

In a recent training I learned something about DynamoDB streams that surprised me. I had expected that any PutItem, UpdateItem or DeleteItem API call would cause a record to appear in the stream of my table, but that’s not the case. The stream works

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Cross Account Resource Access - Invalid Principal in Policy

Keeping accounts decoupled is important in cross account scenarios. Setting permissions in the wrong way can lead to unwanted behavior. Better avoid setting a principal in a resource policy to a specific ARN as it may lead to ‘Invalid Principal&rsqu

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New Year, New Design

A new year is always an opportunity to start fresh and that’s why we’ve decided to update the design of aws-blog.de this year. Patrick has been hard at work on the design for a while and we’re excited to show it off.

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Reliable Data Streaming on AWS

Reliable Data Streaming on AWS We should agree that in our digital world streaming and especially data streaming becomes more and more important if it isn’t already. Besides performance/throughput and security for a data streaming system reliability

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Using CloudFormation Modules for Serverless Standard Architecture

Serverless - a Use Case for CloudFormation Modules? Let´s agree to “infrastructure as code” is a good thing. The next question is: What framework do you use? To compare the frameworks, we have the tRick-benchmark repository, where we model inf

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Jump to the Cloud - Migration Immersion Day

Der Sprung in die Cloud - unterstützt durch unsere Migrationserfahrung. In diesem Video beschreiben wir den Weg zu erfolgreichen Migrationen in Richtung AWS. Wir geben einen Überblick über die Phasen des Migrationsprozesses: Assess Mobilize Migration &am

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People perspective of cloud transformation

The underestimated factor The underestimated human factor in migrations to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. You want to migrate (your IT) to the Cloud! This is not only a complex technical task. Let’s call it “SoftSkills”, “peo

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AWS Migration best practices - Agile vs. Waterfall?

Changes ahead The industry has changed a lot over the years, and we have seen in particular massive progress with endless resources that have failed to succeed. There is an abundance set of tools, of methodologies, tons of documented experiences but yet f

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