AWS Fundamentals

🚂 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗼𝗼 - The next CloudWatch Book update just arrived. We're now also introducing you to 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 🔎 As a quick wrap-up, what you need to know: - 📊 OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework for telemetry data like metrics, logs, and traces. - 🌐 Provides a vendor-agnostic solution for instrumenting applications. - 📈 Enables monitoring and analysis of system performance across environments. - ☁️ AWS supports it through the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). - 🔄 ADOT integrates with CloudWatch and X-Ray. - 🔧 Instrument once and send data to multiple AWS and partner solutions.

In the next newsletter, we're talking about our top CloudWatch launches of this re:invent 🚀 • More Coverage • Easier Correlation • Less silos, more analytics • Deeper distributed tracing • Aided investigations We'll send it out on Sunday 01 pm ⏰ 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eKaRd8sw

"How can someone safely run an EC2 instance for some casual learning or testing without overstepping on the free tier and playing hide-and-seek with AWS billing?" 💭 Great question and a quote from a LocalStack article by @harsh_casper I've mentioned LocalStack many times in previous posts, as I think it's great technology - especially for beginners that fear AWS. With it's Docker-based emulator, you to locally test AWS services and integrations like Terraform, CDK, and AWS CLI without even needing an AWS account. https://lnkd.in/gKnxfFFt

re:invent is full of amazing launches, CloudWatch was definitely a huge focus! Some of my highlights: 🧭 Unified Navigation 📊 Use SQL in Logs Insights 🌐 Transaction search with OTEL Spans I'll go through all of them in the next newsletter 💌

Debugging ECS tasks without helpers can be very painful ⚡️ One of these helpers is LocalStack. In conjunction with VS Code you can debug ECS tasks locally and very pleasantly - even with hot-reload! 🔥 If you didn't try it yet, here's an introductory article to get you started by Harsh Bardhan Mishra 🏗️ https://lnkd.in/gAjVzacj

What do you need to know for DevOps in 2024? 💭 🏗️ Yatri's article guides you through the skills, tools, and best practices. From understanding cloud platforms to mastering pipelines, the roadmap outlines everything you should be skilled in 👇 https://lnkd.in/g3Knch5t

AWS re:Invent 2024 came with 𝟴𝟮𝟬 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜/𝗠𝗟 🤖 - that's an overwhelming 34% out of the 2378 total sessions! ✨ Regarding the announcements, we've created a small summary for the (opinionated) top 10 only considering GenAI & ML. As in the last time, visually prepared by our magician Eduardo Rabelo 🪄 P.S.: If you're an engineer and you're as AWS obsessed as we are, consider joining our bi-weekly newsletter 💌 https://lnkd.in/eKaRd8sw If you missed our initial post, check it out here or in our blog ✍️ https://lnkd.in/eYrmQZ6H

Unpopular opinion: simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ✨ "Wow, this solution is so simple and obvious—why did it take so long?" That simplicity is the result of hard work. Making things look easy is often the hardest part. This isn't just true in software engineering; it applies everywhere.

Goodbye 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 🪦 Welcome 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴 👋 We've shipped another major update to the CloudWatch Book 📕 Now, the feature-toggle part is featuring AppConfig. We did this to support our readers after Evidently received the final date for its end of life.

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