AppSync GraphQL Task Manager — Notes
Cognito-authenticated AppSync GraphQL API with DynamoDB, JavaScript resolvers, user-scoped task access, and Admins group authorization.
Posts
API Gateway WebSocket API — Notes
WebSocket route keys ($connect, $disconnect, $default), MOCK integration setup, CLI inspection commands, and Lambda handler patterns for custom routes.
Lab
Lab walkthrough notes for RDS audit logs, CloudWatch export, EventBridge rules and pipes, FIFO SQS pipelines, AWS Backup, and related IAM policies.
AWS Lambda Python Runtime — Notes
Python Lambda handler patterns, deployment packages, virtual environments, layers, and packaging notes for boto3 and third-party dependencies.
API Gateway with Cognito
Runbook for securing REST and HTTP APIs with Cognito User Pools (JWT authorizer) and Identity Pools (IAM/SigV4), including OAuth grants, trust policies, and scopes.
API Gateway Mapping Templates for DynamoDB
Velocity Template Language (VTL) examples for API Gateway proxy integrations with DynamoDB—PutItem, GetItem, and custom JSON responses.
Argo CD on Amazon EKS
Install Argo CD on EKS, expose the server with a LoadBalancer, retrieve the admin password, and log in from the CLI.
Amazon EventBridge - Notes
EventBridge rules, event patterns, input transformers, archive/replay, pipes, scheduler, and DLQs.
Lambda CI/CD with CodePipeline and CodeDeploy
End-to-end Lambda deployment pipeline using CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy canary traffic shifting.
AWS Architecture Reference Links
Curated Well-Architected, prescriptive guidance, workshops, and hands-on lab templates for EKS, networking, and data.
AWS and Kubernetes CLI Snippets
Quick-reference kubectl, eksctl, ECR, FSx, EBS, and VPC Flow Logs commands for EKS day-2 operations.
CodeCommit to ArgoCD Pipeline on EKS
End-to-end GitOps from CodeCommit through CodePipeline to Argo CD on EKS.
AWS CI/CD Notes — CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CodeDeploy
Quick-reference patterns for CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy setups.
Data on AWS: RDS, Redshift, and Athena
Operational runbooks for Amazon RDS day-2 checks, Redshift COPY loads from S3, and Athena tables for VPC Flow Logs forensics.
ECS and Lambda CI/CD with CodePipeline
BuildSpec, AppSpec, and task definition patterns for ECS blue/green deployments and Lambda pipelines with Amazon ECR.
Egress Only VPC Transit Gateway
Notes on egress-only VPC routing with AWS Transit Gateway.
EKS + AWS Load Balancer Controller (ALB Ingress)
Expose services on EKS via the AWS Load Balancer Controller and ALB Ingress.
Amazon ECR Best Practices for EKS
Repository hardening for EKS workloads—scan on push, immutable production tags, and lifecycle policies for cost control.
EKS Notes
EKS Notes
Getting Started with EKS
Initial EKS cluster setup including IAM roles, nodes, CNI, and ECR.
IAM Policy Examples and Triage Guide
Copy-paste trust, identity, resource, boundary, SCP, session, and VPC endpoint policies with a rapid troubleshooting checklist.
IAM Policy Conditions - Notes
Common IAM policy condition keys and copy-paste examples for S3 encryption, date/time, tags, IP, MFA, region, and other scenarios.
Karpenter Setup on EKS
Install Karpenter on an existing EKS cluster for node autoscaling.
KeyCloak Cognito Auth
KeyCloak Cognito Auth
Amazon Kinesis Streams and Analytics
Reference videos and AWS resources for Kinesis Data Streams, producer/consumer patterns, and Kinesis Data Analytics.
Kubernetes on EKS — Core Resource Examples
Minimal YAML samples for common Kubernetes resources on EKS.
Kubernetes on AWS (EKS Runbook)
EKS version guidance, access entries, Pod Identity vs IRSA, and day-2 cluster operations for Amazon EKS.
Kyverno Setup on EKS
Install and configure Kyverno policy engine on Amazon EKS.
Lambda Event-Driven Pipeline
EventBridge, SQS, DynamoDB, and RDS event pipeline patterns.
Monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus
Set up Grafana and Prometheus on EKS with CloudWatch observability.
Networking on AWS
Runbook for Network Firewall, Transit Gateway hub-and-spoke, VPC Lattice, and centralized inspection routing patterns.
OrderFlow: EKS Migration to Managed AWS Services
Phase-by-phase migration from in-cluster PostgreSQL to RDS, Secrets Manager, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB on Amazon EKS.
OrderFlow CLI and Operations Snippets
Copy-paste EKS, IRSA, RDS, SQS, ingress, and add-on commands for the OrderFlow migration project.
Prometheus Alerts with SNS and SQS
Wire Prometheus Alertmanager to SNS and SQS on EKS.
Prometheus with EBS CSI Driver
Run Prometheus on EKS with persistent volumes via the AWS EBS CSI driver.
Serverless on AWS with SAM
11-phase walkthrough building an event-driven order pipeline with SAM, Lambda, HTTP API, EventBridge, SQS, and DynamoDB.
Serverless CLI and SAM Snippets
SAM build, deploy, local invoke, scaling policy, and CodeDeploy commands for the serverless order-events project.
ShopSphere on Amazon EKS
Complete microservices lab on EKS—VPC, Flask backend, ALB ingress patterns, autoscaling, Prometheus, Grafana, GitOps, and secrets.
VPC
VPC Transit Gateway
VPC with CloudFormation
Deploy a lab VPC with public and private subnets using CloudFormation.
What Is a vCPU on AWS?
How virtual CPUs map to physical cores on Intel, AMD, and Graviton instances—and how vCPU limits affect EC2 capacity.
No posts match your filters.