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…
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 Advanced Networking Series — Part 03
The Background
In my last two blog articles on AWS advanced networking concepts, I tried to explain two main aspects in AWS hybrid connectivity.
Article 1: AWS Site-to-Site VPN — https://crishantha.medium.com/aws-site-to-site-vpn-c4baf45703fd
Article 2: Transitive Peering with Transitive Gateway — https://crishantha.medium.com/transitive-peering-between-networks-using-aws-transit-gateway-4d3550bea2dc
As the third step of…
AWS Identity Management Advanced Series — Part 2
This blog is the part 02 of my AWS Identity Management Advanced Series. In part 01, I discussed about how we can leverage SAML 2.0 federated systems with AWS. …
AWS Advanced Networking Series — Part 02
In my last article, I explained how Site-2-Site VPN works between AWS and an on-premise networks. In this article, we will discuss one more networking topic, which is heavily utilized with AWS networking. This is called as the Transit Gateway.
In a nutshell…
AWS Advanced Networking Series — Part 01
An Introduction
There are multiple ways you can connect your AWS infrastructure to an on-premise network. The Site-to-Site VPN connection is the more easier and cost effective way.
The Site-to-Site VPN Connection is a logical connection between AWS VPC and on-premise network, which is encrypted…
Using Enterprise Deployment Design Patterns
The Introduction
Software deployment is an integral part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). With the advent of cloud based architectures, the understanding of strategies and patterns around this is very important to any software professional.
We tend to build a proper deployment strategy mainly to:
- …
