Ec2

Overview Classic Lambda is fantastic when traffic is spiky, the operational budget is close to zero, and paying per invocation makes sense. But there is a point where some workloads start to feel slightly awkward inside the normal Lambda model. Not because they are long-running. Not because they need state. Just because they are high-volume, fairly predictable, and more about sustained compute efficiency than burst elasticity. That is where Lambda Managed Instances becomes interesting. ...

Introduction I recently build a Slack command to help me handle actions on my VPC. The only thing you need is an AWS account - Free Tier it’s ok. I recently wrote about how to maximize resources, with particular focus on the number of hours you have in Free Tier - using specific CloudWatch Rules. In this article, I want to describe how I extended my architecture to invoke actions - potentially, all the action provided by Amazon Web Services official SDK(s) - with a single Slack command. I decided to call this slack command HAL because I think it’s a really dangerous command 😜 ...

Introduction If you have an AWS account in Free Tier, you have (updated: March, 13th 2018) 750 hours/month to run EC2 (small ones) in your VPC. You also have a lot of other resources, such as AWS Lambda functions (I wrote about them here and here) and CloudWatch Events. In this article, I talk about smart resources handling and some trick - actually, not so smart XD - I setup to take the best from the services. Attention!!! Picture Spoiler ...