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Seamless Monitoring: Get Slack Alerts for Every AWS Lambda Function Update
Keeping track of updates in your AWS Lambda function seems like an easy task, but it is actually time-consuming. Leaving your Lambda function unattended after deployment may incur risks in missing crucial updates that may affect its overall performance and functionality. And most of the time, you also do [...]
The Evolving Landscape of Digital Dialogue: DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT
In the sprawling digital age, where information spreads like a rapidly growing network, and the need for intelligent interaction grows significantly, artificial intelligence has stepped into the spotlight, transforming how we engage with technology and machines. DeepSeek and ChatGPT have emerged as important players in the field of natural [...]
AI-Driven Video Creation: How Luma AI Ray2 and Amazon Bedrock Are Transforming Content Production
The video production landscape is experiencing significant changes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning advancements. These technologies are transforming how video content is created and consumed, offering creators and businesses new avenues for visual storytelling. A key player in this evolution is Luma AI’s Ray2, an innovative [...]
Creating a Self-Healing Mechanism for a Lightweight Website
Downtime can be a major disruption for any website, but for lightweight websites like personal blogs or any type of static site, a simple restart of the instance might be all that's needed to resolve the issue. In this article, we'll walk through setting up a self-healing mechanism using [...]
DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Demo
Bookmarks DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock Workflow Overview DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock Pre-requisites Implementation Processes As of January 2025, we’re seeing too much news about DeepSeek AI features in many media outlets, but how about implementing DeepSeek AI and AWS workloads? DeepSeek AI in [...]
PHP-FPM Failures Are Killing Your Uptime – Automate Slack Alerts Before It’s Too Late!
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, where user expectations are at an all-time high, even a few seconds of downtime can have catastrophic consequences. Lost revenue, user dissatisfaction, and damage to your brand reputation are just the tip of the iceberg. If you're still relying on manual methods to monitor [...]
Commanding Genomics: AWS CLI for Bioinformatics Workflows
“This is becoming more troublesome…” I can hear you mumble as you move your mouse to click on the different AWS services you need in the console. As time goes by, it can get tiresome to keep on clicking things for your workflow instead of doing them in just [...]
Simplifying Knowledge Management with a Content Analysis Tool for Confluence
Did you know that organizations spend an average of 19% of their workweek searching for and gathering information? According to research from McKinsey & Company, inefficient knowledge management leads to wasted time and lost productivity—hindering teams from making real progress on meaningful work. (Source, McKinsey) In today’s digital-first environment, [...]
The Path Forward: AI Agents Driving Modern Workflows
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept of the future; it's an integral part of today’s digital era. As AI technology advances, businesses and developers increasingly find innovative ways to integrate machine learning into their workflows. One of the most powerful tools in this transformation is the AI [...]
Enhanced Data Processing and Retrieval with Amazon Bedrock’s New Capabilities
Data is at the heart of modern innovation, and the ability to process, analyze, and extract insights from diverse data types is more important than ever. Amazon Bedrock introduces a suite of advanced capabilities designed to simplify data management and enhance AI-driven applications. By automating workflows, integrating multimodal data, [...]

My AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Exam Experience

I just passed the latest version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02! What a way to end the year strong! In this short article, I'll quickly discuss what this SAP-C02 exam is all about and the different things that can help you pass this mind-boggling test. The New AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Exam The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional SAP-C02) exam is one of the two Professional-level certification tests of [...]

My SAA-C03 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam Experience

My team and I took the recently released AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate SAA-C03 exam version recently. The SAA-C03 test replaced the old SAA-C02 exam version last August. If you can compare the official exam guide of the previous SAA-C02 version with the latest one (SAA-C03), you may notice that the exam domains are almost exactly the same but with quite different domain percentages. For example, the "Design Secure Applications and Architectures" domain [...]

AWS Certified Solutions Architect SAA-C03 Content Update

With the new version of AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam coming out very soon, we are delighted to let you know that we started transitioning our SAA practice exams from the SAA-C02 to the new SAA-C03 exam version based on the brand new cloud services that AWS recently released. We also released the new SAA-C03 version of our AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Study Guide eBook quite recently. As for our [...]

What’s New with the SAP-C02 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam this 2023?

The AWS Training and Certification team recently announced the third iteration of its challenging AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) exam. The first day to take the new version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam would be on November 15, 2022, with an updated exam code of SAP-C02. Take note that the current version (SAP-C01) will only be available on November 14, 2022 so you still have time to recertify. The [...]

Whitelisting Access to Application Load Balancer Through The Use of AWS WAF

Load balancing an application is a common approach to distributing traffic among multiple servers. It has a breadth of benefits that can optimize performance, including availability and responsiveness, as it spreads the workload from one server to another, preventing server overload. AWS has a wide variety of load balancer types. But one of the most commonly used for web servers is the Application Load Balancer (ALB), as it functions at the application layer, the [...]

Exploring AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner Game

What is AWS Cloud Quest? AWS Cloud Quest is an open-world, role-playing game that teaches you how to create AWS solutions using cloud concepts and exercises based on real life. It helps you learn the intricacies of modern cloud technologies and have fun at the same time. Cloud Quest features 12 real-life scenario assignments which prepare and train you to become an AWS Cloud Practitioner at absolutely no cost. This free game targets audiences [...]

Building Dynamic Start and Stop Scheduler Functions for Non-Distributed Applications Under Auto-Scaling Group

In AWS, it’s of utmost importance to consider the cost in every aspect. In fact, cost optimization is one of the 6 pillars of a well-architected framework, therefore, it must be included in every step in building solutions in AWS. There are infinite ways to reduce bills but one of the most popular ones for EC2 instances is to start or stop them, especially if they don't need to run 24/7. But constantly doing [...]

Real-time Monitoring of 5XX Errors using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch Logs and Slack

Monitoring is the best friend of every system administrator. It gives visibility into what is happening on your application so that when an issue occurs, you or someone in your team could be alerted and do the necessary measures to mitigate it. However, this can only be as effective as the metrics you're keeping track of. There are plenty of factors that can affect application performance. And while it’s difficult to stay on top [...]

Automatically stop non-production RDS databases with AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge

Every AWS service offering comes with a pay-as-go pricing model, empowering businesses, small or large, to be flexible at experimenting and making changes as they build their products to market. This pricing model is similar to riding an Uber, where you only pay for the distance covered, or to electric bills where you’re charged based on actual energy consumption. Of course, the more devices you have running, the higher your monthly bill will be. [...]

What’s New with the SAA-C03 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam this 2022?

The AWS Training and Certification team recently announced that there’s yet another version release of its popular AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam will be released this August 30, 2022. Its new exam version would be SAA-C03. Take note that the current version (SAA-C02) will only be available on August 29, 2022 so you still have time to recertify. The new SAA-C03 will be focused on Security, as shown on its official exam guide.' History of the [...]