Wednesday AWS Wrap up – Wednesday 12 February 2020

13th of February, 2020 / / No Comments

Here we are halfway through February already (all be it a bit belated… again) for another AWS Weekly Wrap-up.

As always, This list is a summary of the recent releases and announcements made by AWS and is far from exhaustive. I simply try to summarise the dozens of weekly announcements to those most sought after by our customers. If your interested in taking a look at all of AWS’s recent announcements, you can follow the “What’s New” section of their website (available here).… [Keep reading] “Wednesday AWS Wrap up – Wednesday 12 February 2020”

Wednesday AWS Wrapup – Wednesday 22nd January 2020

24th of January, 2020 / / No Comments

Welcome to 2020 (all be it a bit belated) and the first AWS Weekly Wrap-up for 2020. For those of you who followed my weekly updates last year, welcome back. For those of are new to these weekly posts, I like to take time each week to review the recent announcements from Amazon Web Services and outline the ones that my customers appear interested in.

As always, This list is a summary of the recent releases and announcements made by AWS and is far from exhaustive.… [Keep reading] “Wednesday AWS Wrapup – Wednesday 22nd January 2020”

Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app – Part 3: Deployment Setup

8th of January, 2020 / / No Comments

Deployment Setup

This is Part 3 of my “Intro to AWS Amplify”. If you haven’t already, you can find the previous articles in the series below:

Part Description
Part 1: Preparation This article provides an introduction and instructions on creating the required AWS environment.
Part 2: App Setup This section outlines the steps to set up out new Amplify application and host it in a repository.

Overview

By now you should have your react application bootstrapped and the amplify project initialized and committed to a git repository.… [Keep reading] “Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app – Part 3: Deployment Setup”

Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app – Part 2: Application Setup

7th of January, 2020 / / No Comments

Application Setup

This is Part 2 of my “Intro to AWS Amplify”. If you haven’t already, you can find the previous articles in the series below:

Part Description
Part 1: Preparation This article provides an introduction and instructions on creating the required AWS environment.

Overview

Continuing on from Part 1,  you should by now have your Cloud9 instance configured and ready to go. In this article, we will install the required libraries in our Cloud9 instance and bootstrap our Amplify Application.… [Keep reading] “Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app – Part 2: Application Setup”

Getting Started: Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app

6th of January, 2020 / / No Comments

Getting Started: Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app

What is this?

As we get started with the new year I thought I’d take the opportunity to start publishing a different type of article this year. Today begins a new series of articles where I will walk through the process of building out a web application using AWS Amplify. It will be a typical todo application written in React and Node JS and we’ll use the Amplify CLI to configure and deploy it into both a test and production environment.… [Keep reading] “Getting Started: Intro to AWS Amplify: build a multi-tenant SaaS app”

AWS Re:Invent Day 1

4th of December, 2019 / / No Comments

And here we are at AWS Re:Invent 2019 coming off all of the announcements and happenings for the week. Today’s article is going to cover off all the day 0 and Day 1 announcements that have come out of Midnight Madness and Monday Night Live. The complete list of announcements from Day 0 and 1 are:

  • AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models
  • New AWS Program to Help Future-proof Your End-of-Support Windows Server Applications
  • A New, Simplified, Bring-Your-Own-License Experience for Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server
  • Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder
  • Amazon Transcribe Medical – Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition for Healthcare Customers
  • Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer

AWS DeepComposer – Compose Music with Generative Machine Learning Models

AWS has made a little bit of a habit over the last few years of releasing new hardware at Re:Invent.… [Keep reading] “AWS Re:Invent Day 1”

AWS November Announcement Review – Part 2

4th of December, 2019 / / No Comments

In my last article (available here), I walked through a number of announcements that AWS made over the first couple of weeks in November. Continuing on from there this article covers the announcements from the second half of the month. This will hopefully set us up to tackle the wave of announcements that will come out during Re: Invent.

When we look at the announcements over the second half of November we can see a couple of recurring themes:

Developer Features

There where a number of new features that clearly make life easier for the developer community.… [Keep reading] “AWS November Announcement Review – Part 2”

November is the new Christmas – At least for fans of AWS

1st of December, 2019 / / No Comments
It’s no secret within the halls of Telstra Purple that the end of November is my favourite time of year, and as a Cloud Architect that lives in the land of AWS…. why wouldn’t this be everybody’s  favourite time of year?
Firstly, for the whole month of November Team Orange slam us with a non stop onslaught of new features and product accounements. In fact, if we have a look at the AWS What’s New page https://aws.amazon.com/new
… [Keep reading] “November is the new Christmas – At least for fans of AWS”

Weekly AWS Update: Friday 31st May 2019

31st of May, 2019 / / No Comments

Well, it’s the end of autumn, and if the weather in Melbourne is anything to go by, winter’s here. Regardless, here we are with another weekly look at the goodies AWS have given us over the week. In this weeks update, we take a look at an extensive collection of releases from across the platform. We have more updates to EBS functionality. Amazon Connect adds additional Telephony Metadata, opening up new routing possibility. And some exciting features added to Amplify and CloudFormation.… [Keep reading] “Weekly AWS Update: Friday 31st May 2019”

Building “Dial a Joke” Part 1 – Using Lambda functions with Amazon Connect

28th of May, 2019 / / No Comments

In this article, we take a look at how to add AWS Lambda functions to our Amazon Connect Contact Flows. This will be the first in a series of articles where we build our very own “Dial A Joke” Service. That’s right, we’re going back to the ’90s using 2019 technology. Throughout this project, we will be taking a look at:

  • Adding Lambda Functions to Contact Flows for dynamic response generation
  • defining and leveraging call variables
  • Using Lambda responses to drive Contact Flow decision making and conditional logic flows
  • Implementing and triggering outbound calls from Amazon Connect
  • a basic introduction to SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language

If you haven’t already taken a look at Amazon Connect, you can take a look at some of our previous articles.… [Keep reading] “Building “Dial a Joke” Part 1 – Using Lambda functions with Amazon Connect”