An easy deployment guide What is Minikube? Minikube is a lightweight Kubernetes (K8) installation, which can create a Virtual Machine (VM) on your local machine or in a cloud instance, which deploys a simple cluster containing only one node. If you want to explore Kubernetes (K8) in detail and if you do not…

A performance based review The Background When you create AWS EC2 instances, you can attach two types of volumes to them. EBS volumes Instance Store volumes Out of these two volume options, EBS is the persistent storage option and Instance store is the non-persistent / ephemeral storage option. Out of these two…

An architectural overview of EFS and how it differs from other storage solutions. — There ate multiple storage offerings in AWS. Some of the popular storage solutions are: AWS S3 AWS EBS AWS EFS This article will discuss the EFS architecture and how it differs from other storage solutions such as EBS. This will give the reader a more conceptual understanding of when to…

An Architectural Overview The Background With this article I am trying to explain multiple enterprise level caching strategies (in theory) and how AWS DAX can be used to implement them in production level setups. Caching Strategies There are multiple caching strategies available in a typical enterprise cloud design. …

An Architectural Overview The Background Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora and Amazon Aurora Serverless are the main three RDBMS service offerings in AWS. Each service has evolved over the years and provides benefits to the clients in multiple ways. In this article, I am trying to give an in-depth understanding of how relational…

How to Migrate Existing Messaging Infrastructures to AWS using Amazon MQ — AWS Messaging Infrastructures There are multiple native messaging architectures available in AWS. Out of these, AWS SNS and AWS SQS are AWS native messaging services. Both SNS and SQS do not require you to set up any third party message brokers manually to get started. They are highly scalable and simple to use…

A Step by Step Approach The Background In my introductory AWS CloudFront article, it was explained how we can secure native and custom origins via CloudFront. Out of those methods, Origin Access Identity (OAI) can be used to secure a native S3 origin. This article will discuss the OAI way of securing…

The AWS Content Delivery Network (CDN) The Background AWS CloudFront (CF) is AWS fast, programmable and secure Content Delivery Network (CDN). This article will summarize multiple key concepts related to AWS CF such as CF architecture, Edge Locations, Caching Process, Behaviors, Time To Live (TTL), Cache Hit Ratio, Cache maximization strategies, Cache…

Part 03 — AWS R53 Series Background As you know, there are two types of Hosted Zones available in AWS Route53 (R53). Public Hosted Zones Private Hosted Zones In my previous R53 articles (see below links) I discussed Routing policies around a public hosted zone. AWS Route53 and Routing Policies —…