I am a Team Lead/Sr. DevOps Consultant in the Amazon Web Services Professional Services division. This article is my own work using publicly available information and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer. CloudWatch becomes an essential part of understanding what is happening within our infrastructure and application…

I am a Sr. DevOps Consultant in Amazon Web Services Professional Services division. This article is my own work using publicly available information and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer. Amazon CloudWatch (hereafter referred to as CloudWatch) collects log and metric data from EC2 instances and other…

When Apple announced iPadOS 15 and iOS 15 at WWDC in June, they introduced many new features and expanded capabilities. As my 12.9 inch iPad Pro is my primary platform, I was thrilled with the updates to the multitasking capabilities of iPadOS. …

Since I started using AWS CloudFormation 4 years ago, I have seen many people using the Fn::Join command to merge information such as static text and variables in their CloudFormation templates. While this works, it can get messy and difficult to understand when things get complicated. Fn::Sub helps simplify our…

So you created your first MySQL Aurora Serverless cluster and are ready to use it. You open your terminal client at home and type the command mysql -u admin cluster-name-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com and nothing happens. Well, to be more precise, the mysql client times out and exits. The answer is simple. Unlike…

If you have ever used an imperative programming language like Javascript, C, or Python, then you are familiar with the concept of importing or including other files into your code. JavaScript: fs = reqire("fs") C: #include "<studio.h" Python: import boto3 This is good as it promotes re-use and prevents “reinventing…