Podcasts by cloudonaut
We are two brothers focusing 100% on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Every other week, one of us prepares the topic of the podcast. The topic is not known to the other one, which results in surprising conversations about all things AWS.
Typically, we are covering the following topics: DevOps, Serverless, Container, Security, Infrastructure as Code, Container, Continuous Deployment, S3, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, VPC, and many more.
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#45 The AWS Cookbook from 2022-04-28T07:15:44
Andreas invited John Culkin and Mike Zazon to talk about their latest book: the AWS Cookbook which includes 70 self-contained recipes to help you creatively solve common AWS challenges you'll encou...
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#44 AWS Security: Stephen Kuenzli and Andreas Wittig on IAM from 2022-02-15T09:35:16
Stephen Kuenzli and I lead several cloud migration projects. In this conversation, we shared our learnings focusing on AWS security and IAM (Identity and Access Management). The result is advice an...
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#43 AWS Architect Mindset from 2021-11-19T07:30:13
Architecting applications on AWS is challenging. On the one hand, you need a broad understanding of AWS services. On the other hand, you have to know the details as well. In this episode, Michael o...
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#42 EC2 Checklist: 7 things to do after launching an instance from 2021-08-25T14:05:56
Launching an EC2 instance takes minutes. Keeping your virtual machines secure and maintaining your VMs is more work. In this episode, I share seven things to do after launching a Linux, Windows, or...
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#41 Getting Started with Free Templates for AWS CloudFormation from 2021-05-13T15:00:17
Writing CloudFormation templates from scratch is a lot of work. You will run into many issues along the way: the documentation is incomplete, magic values are required, unsupported combinations of ...
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#40 Review: AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) from 2021-04-13T13:50:55
AWS allows us to run applications distributed across EC2 instances and availability zones. By adding load balancers or message queues to the architecture, we can achieve fault tolerance or high ava...
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#39 Serverless in the Enterprise from 2021-03-17T12:45:25
We coached developers building their first Serverless applications for a large company recently and want to share our learnings and observations with you.
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#38 5 good reasons not to get AWS certified from 2021-02-17T11:54
I completed my first AWS certification in 2014: AWS Solutions Architect Associate. During the following years, I accomplished all five associate and professional certificates. However, Michael and ...
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#37 How to choose an EBS volume type? from 2021-01-20T06:55:01
Elastic Block Storage (EBS) provides solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD) for EC2 instances. The virtual machine accesses the persistent storage via the network. In December 2020, AW...
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#36 re:Invent 2020: Recap of Werner Vogels's Keynote from 2020-12-16T14:40:01
Werner Vogels's keynote was a blast and definitely the highlight of re:Invent 2020. Michael and I are going through the announced features and services. As usual, we also take a look at the technic...
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#35 3½ ways to workaround missing CloudFormation support from 2020-12-09T13:00:10
Are you following the Infrastructure as Code approach using CloudFormation? If so, I bet you encountered a situation where CloudFormation misses support for a service's latest features. I run into ...
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#34 A recap of the re:Invent 2020 Keynote with Andy Jassy from 2020-12-02T21:55:09
Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig from cloudonaut are discussing Andy Jassy's keynote from re:Invent 2020. The focus is on the newly announced services and features: ECS Anywhere, EBS volumes (gp3)...
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#33 ECS vs. Fargate: What's the difference? from 2020-11-26T13:00
The Elastic Container Service (ECS) is Amazon's container orchestration service. Besides that there is Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) the managed Kubernetes offering by AWS. Both container cluste...
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#32 Comparing API Gateways on AWS from 2020-11-11T20:50:15
AWS offers five different types of API Gateways. Which option fits your needs?
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#31 Introducing cloudonaut plus from 2020-11-02T14:00
Today we are launching cloudonaut plus. Deepen your AWS knowledge with exclusive videos.
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#30 Getting started with IPv6 on AWS from 2020-10-28T08:18:55
Michael shares his learnings about IPv6 on AWS. Enabling IPv6 is highly recommended for public endpoints like CloudFront and ALB. On top of that, Michael explains how to enable IPv6 for your VPCs.
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#29 Unboxing Amazon Timestream from 2020-10-14T16:52:20
In this episode, Michael unboxes Amazon Timestream for us. A recently launched time-series database. Andreas asks questions like: What is Amazon Timestream? How does it work? What are typical use c...
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#28 How to choose a container registry? from 2020-09-28T19:59:44
Are you using a container registry already? Andreas Wittig and Michael Hausenblas discuss different scenarios and options. The episode focuses on ECR including recent announcements and upcoming fea...
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#27 Record AWS API calls to improve IAM Policies from 2020-09-11T08:22:24
Have you ever looked at an IAM policy and wondered: Is it really necessary to grant access to this specific action? Or do you need to know which API calls a legacy or 3rd party application is actua...
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#26 Review: AWS App Mesh from 2020-08-25T20:48:09
It seems to me like everyone is talking about service meshes these days - definetly a hot topic in the world of containers and microservices. A service mesh promises reducing latency, increasing ob...
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#25 CloudFormation's unknown features from 2020-08-13T12:05:56
I was recently invited to a CloudFormation workshop with a group of early CloudFormation users. I soon realized that the group had a good understanding of the basics, so I started to introduce more...
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#24 Storage on AWS from 2020-07-29T07:46:17
Choosing storage service is critical when designing a cloud architecture. Read on to learn about the characteristics, limitations, typical use cases, and a decision tree for the following options t...
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#23 ECS Deployment Options from 2020-07-14T15:23:59
In this episode, Michael invited a guest: [Philipp Garbe](https://twitter.com/pgarbe). Philipp is an AWS Container Hero, Working in the Cloud, and we hope you enjoy his Bavarian accent as much as ...
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#22 Messaging on AWS from 2020-07-01T08:07:46
In this episode, Michael compares the available messaging options on AWS. The goal of messaging is to decouple the producers of messages from consumers. The messaging pattern allows us to process ...
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#21 Review: API Gateway HTTP APIs from 2020-06-19T08:28:55
AWS offers different types of API gateways as a managed service. This review takes a closer look at the new service API Gateway HTTP APIs announced in December 2019 and generally since available i...
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#20 End-user monitoring of your website with CloudWatch Synthetics from 2020-06-04T14:56:03
There are countless reasons why your website is not working as your users expect. From a technical point of view, you can monitor your load balancers, your web servers, and your database. But what ...
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#19 Scaling Container Clusters on AWS: ECS and EKS from 2020-05-08T09:21:21
Containers are a powerful tool to streamline your development and deployment process. However, a container cluster - no matter if you are using ECS (Elastic Container Service), EKS (Elastic Kuberne...
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#18 CloudFormation vs. Terraform from 2020-04-21T15:54:17
The most reliable way to automate creating, updating, and deleting your cloud resources is to describe the target state of your infrastructure and use a tool to apply it to the current state of you...
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#17 AWS Account Structure from 2020-04-08T15:26:12
Using multiple AWS accounts to isolate workloads has been a best practice, not only since AWS introduced consolidated billing in 2010. AWS made a huge step by introducing AWS Organizations in 2017 ...
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#16 CloudWatch Metrics&Alarms reloaded from 2020-03-26T10:31:12
Amazon CloudWatch improved significantly over the years. It's time to look at its monitoring capabilities again. CloudWatch is an excellent starting point to implement enhanced monitoring on AWS. I...
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#15 Advanced AWS Networking from 2020-03-16T09:58:18
AWS offers shiny and powerful networking services. However, you should know about the pitfalls when designing advanced networking architectures for AWS. I will share some pitfalls that came to my a...
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#14 What's the best AWS Compute option for your project? from 2020-02-25T06:34:50
You can run your application on virtual machines using EC2. If you prefer containers, ECS Fargate is your choice. But you can also use the latest Serverless capabilities to run your application on ...
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#13 Review: Amazon Connect from 2020-02-14T07:00
Do you provide services to consumer or business clients? Which channels do you provide for clients to get support, leave feedback, or let off frustration? Amazon Connect provides a contact center ...
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#12 EC2 Instances 2.0 - Time to Update Your Toolbox from 2020-01-28T12:43:38
Managing a mutable EC2 instance comes with many responsibilities. In this episode, Michael shows you how to solve everyday challenges by leveraging the latest and greatest capabilities of the AWS p...
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#11 10 Success Factors for Starting Your Cloud Journey from 2020-01-15T10:00:58
Are you planning to start the cloud journey for your organization soon? Learn from others to turn your initiative into a huge success. Michael and I have accompanied medium-sized businesses and ent...
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#10 All you need to know about AWS re:Invent in 2019 from 2019-12-10T20:12:13
re:Invent was a blast: five days packed with announcements of new services and features. We have created a top 10 list for our re:Invent recap. Here is all you need to know about re:Invent 2019.
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#9 Reduce your AWS bill with Savings Plans from 2019-11-26T12:20:45
AWS made a prominent announcement on November 6th, 2019: AWS Savings Plans. It was never easier to get a discount on compute capacity by committing to a monthly consumption and paying upfront. This...
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#8 Review: AWS Global Accelerator from 2019-11-12T05:11:58
Andreas is reviewing the AWS Global Accelerator. AWS introduced Global Accelerator at re:Invent in 2018. A year after that, it is about time to review the service. AWS Global Accelerator makes use ...
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#7 How we run our blog cloudonaut.io from 2019-10-29T05:53:49
We love simplicity! Our blog runs on CloudFront and S3 which is maintenance free and does handle traffic spikes easily. We use the static website generator hexo to publish our content. Lambda@Edge ...
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#6 How to avoid S3 data leaks? from 2019-10-15T10:59:02
Not a week goes by without a frightening announcement that an organization has leaked confidential data from Amazon S3 accidentally. Most often, the root cause of a security breach is a misconfigur...
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#5 Rapid CI/CD with CodeBuild from 2019-10-01T07:39:05
There are many options available when you are looking for ways to implement a deployment pipeline. You might have heard about Jenkins, CircleCi, BitBucket Pipelines, GitLab Pipelines, and many othe...
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#4 Review: Amazon Aurora Serverless from 2019-09-17T06:27:34
It was never easier to scale your compute layer. EC2 Auto Scaling, Fargate, and Lambda enable horizontal scaling. But how do you scale your database? Use a NoSQL database like DynamoDB, one could s...
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#3 How to sell pay per use SaaS to AWS customers in the AWS Marketplace from 2019-09-03T13:00
AWS Marketplace allows you to sell software to AWS customers. The customer can either run the software on its own (using AMIs and optional CloudFormation), or you can offer the software as a servic...
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#2 EC2 Instance Connect is an insecure default! from 2019-08-20T05:41:21
AWS released a new feature called EC2 Instance Connect. Unfortunately, the defaults are insecure. You likely can open an SSH connection to every EC2 instance in your AWS account now.
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#1 Review: AWS Backup from 2019-08-07T06:00
AWS releases a new service with a lot of marketing noise. You can’t resist, you want to use that new thing now. But soon you discover that the service is missing essential features. As a result, yo...
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