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How to Automate Storage and Memory Space Monitoring in Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch and Slack

2025-03-19T06:45:45+00:00

Managing resources effectively is crucial when operating in the cloud. One important aspect of managing Amazon EC2 instances is monitoring storage and memory usage. Storage space, primarily driven by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and memory (RAM) are two critical resources that need constant monitoring to avoid performance degradation and optimize costs. Fortunately, with Amazon CloudWatch and Slack, you can automate monitoring these resources and get notified when thresholds are crossed. This blog will guide you through setting up automated monitoring for disk utilization (EBS storage) and memory utilization (RAM) in Amazon EC2 using CloudWatch and Slack. Difference Between Storage [...]

How to Automate Storage and Memory Space Monitoring in Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch and Slack2025-03-19T06:45:45+00:00

Website Down? How to Manually Increase Amazon EBS Volume Size and Get Back Online Fast!

2025-03-10T18:24:14+00:00

It was a regular day, and everything was running smoothly—customers were browsing your website, orders were coming in, and business was booming. The server was handling traffic efficiently, and everything seemed to be operating as expected. But then, disaster struck—your website suddenly crashed. Panic set in as you scrambled to find out what had happened. Was it a DDoS attack? A misconfiguration? A sudden surge in traffic? You immediately logged into the AWS Management Console to investigate. Your EC2 instance was still running, the CPU and memory usage seemed normal, and there were no obvious signs of a system failure. [...]

Website Down? How to Manually Increase Amazon EBS Volume Size and Get Back Online Fast!2025-03-10T18:24:14+00:00

Seamless Monitoring: Get Slack Alerts for Every AWS Lambda Function Update

2025-02-28T10:10:47+00:00

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 development tasks which might limit your attention to these Lambda functions. That's why you must be informed whenever an update is made to your Lambda function. Whether done by yourself or by your teammates and collaborators, being informed of these changes will help you maintain its efficiency, especially when diagnosing issues [...]

Seamless Monitoring: Get Slack Alerts for Every AWS Lambda Function Update2025-02-28T10:10:47+00:00

SST: Effortless Full-Stack Deployment on AWS

2025-03-13T11:55:14+00:00

Thinking of other ways how to deploy your full-stack web applications to AWS? Well, there is open-source framework that we can use to deploy web applications to AWS without ever touching the AWS Console because we know how easy it is to get lost in the number of services AWS offers but no worries! If you are a developer and prefers to have their whole Infrastructure as Code (IaC), worry no more because today we will be diving into one of the best tools that you can use. SST or Serverless Stack is an open-source framework that allows you to [...]

SST: Effortless Full-Stack Deployment on AWS2025-03-13T11:55:14+00:00

The Evolving Landscape of Digital Dialogue: DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT

2025-02-26T07:11:43+00:00

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 language processing, each carving out their own specialty. These platforms, while sharing the common goal of facilitating human-computer interaction, differ significantly in their underlying architectures, training methodologies, and intended applications. Their influence spreads across a wide range of industries, including customer service, content creation, and research and development. Understanding their strengths [...]

The Evolving Landscape of Digital Dialogue: DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT2025-02-26T07:11:43+00:00

AI-Driven Video Creation: How Luma AI Ray2 and Amazon Bedrock Are Transforming Content Production

2025-02-26T03:34:43+00:00

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 AI-powered video generation model that revolutionizes video production when integrated with the robust features of Amazon Bedrock. Luma AI Ray2 in Amazon Bedrock enables the rapid creation of high-quality video content at scale, allowing creators to produce videos quickly and efficiently without the traditional barriers of time, cost, or expertise. This [...]

AI-Driven Video Creation: How Luma AI Ray2 and Amazon Bedrock Are Transforming Content Production2025-02-26T03:34:43+00:00

Creating a Self-Healing Mechanism for a Lightweight Website

2025-02-26T03:13:15+00:00

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 AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge. This will automatically detect if your website is down, restart it, and send a notification to Slack. We'll also explore how Amazon CloudWatch can be used as a trigger for the Lambda function via a subscription filter and discuss some common causes of downtime or 5xx [...]

Creating a Self-Healing Mechanism for a Lightweight Website2025-02-26T03:13:15+00:00

DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Demo

2025-02-01T09:31:47+00:00

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 Amazon Bedrock Anyone? Well, one of the most interesting NLPs that sparked this January 2025 is DeepSeek Multimodal AI. There are many that claim it has higher chances to exceed the top-level benchmark models, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and many more. This is with the claim of being cost-effective and giving [...]

DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Demo2025-02-01T09:31:47+00:00

PHP-FPM Failures Are Killing Your Uptime – Automate Slack Alerts Before It’s Too Late!

2025-01-30T05:13:00+00:00

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 PHP-FPM (PHP FastCGI Process Manager), you're leaving your system vulnerable to undetected issues that could lead to catastrophic failures. PHP-FPM is critical for managing pools of PHP worker processes and handling high volumes of web traffic efficiently. However, when the number of active processes exceeds safe thresholds, it’s often a red [...]

PHP-FPM Failures Are Killing Your Uptime – Automate Slack Alerts Before It’s Too Late!2025-01-30T05:13:00+00:00

Commanding Genomics: AWS CLI for Bioinformatics Workflows

2025-03-24T12:46:48+00:00

“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 one place. You can streamline this process with the AWS CLI! Knowing not only how to work with AWS Console, but also the AWS Command-Line Interface will help you up your bioinformatics workflow! What is AWS CLI? According to their official website, “The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is an [...]

Commanding Genomics: AWS CLI for Bioinformatics Workflows2025-03-24T12:46:48+00:00

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