aws Archives

DevOps & System Admin.

Creating Custom CloudWatch Alarms for AWS Lambdas

Setting up alarms based on AWS Lambda events isn’t straightforward. CloudWatch logs can create alarms to notify you when unexpected behavior occurs.

Developer Tools

What’s the AWS IoT Suite Like? – A Dozen Lego Kits Mixed Together

Amazon comes into the IoT game strong. You can build just about anything, but first you have to spend a lot of time sorting through pieces and searching for what you need.

Android Development

Setting Up Amazon’s Dash Replenishment Services and Login with Amazon on Android

A guide to setting up Amazon's Dash Replenishment Services (DRS) and adding the Amazon LWA button to your Android project.

DevOps & System Admin.

Amazon Lambda Auto-Deployment For Your Alexa Skill Using AWS CLI

How to use AWS CLI to auto-deploy an Amazon Alexa skill. We decided to find a way to auto-deploy our Skill with each Git commit.

DevOps & System Admin.

Ansible Communication with AWS EC2 Instances on a VPC

Using SSH options like ProxyCommand, Ansible can readily work with privately addressed EC2 instances on a AWS VPC subnet.

DevOps & System Admin.

Managing AWS Route 53 Hosted Zones with AWS Lambda

I wrote an AWS Lamda function to automatically update DNS records in a Route 53 hosted zone whenever EC2 instances are launched.

DevOps & System Admin.

Managing AWS CloudFront Security Group with AWS Lambda

There's no pre-built security group to allow inbound traffic from CloudFront, so I made an AWS Lambda function to periodically update our security group.