Blog articles relating to AWS managed services

AWS DynamoDB vs MongoDB: A NoSQL Comparison

In this post we explore two giants of the NoSQL Database world: DynamoDB from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MongoDB. We’ll start by taking a…

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AWS Reliability – A Core Pillar of Your Architecture

In this post I’m going to give an overview of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, then I’ll do a deep dive on the Reliability pillar—one of…

AWS Microservices: Architecture, Benefits, Scaling & More

We’ve all heard the terms crop up in conversation: monoliths and microservices. But, what exactly do they mean? And how exactly do we ‘break up…

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5 New Features in AWS Fargate Version 1.4

What is AWS Fargate? AWS Fargate is a serverless computing engine for containers that enables customers to deploy and manage applications, not infrastructure. Fargate works…

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Amazon Detective – Now Generally Available

This week, AWS announced general availability of Amazon Detective. To save you doing the detective work to figure out what Amazon Detective can do for…

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Combat Covid-19 With 3 Free AWS Homeworking Solutions

It’s fair to say that the world was unprepared for a global pandemic such as Covid-19. We’ve seen outbreaks in the past – SARS, Ebola,…

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Don’t get Caught Out by AWS Data Egress Fees…

It’s no secret that AWS, like most cloud providers, charge nothing for data ingress. It’s free to put your data in to the cloud, yet…

What is AWS Database Migration Service?

AWS Database Migration Service is a simple and cost effective way to migrate live, petabyte scale databases both into and out of the AWS Cloud with virtually no downtime. Those databases could be hosted on premise, already in the AWS cloud, or in another cloud.