Erik van der Voorden IT | Business | Enterprise Architecture | TOGAF 9.1 | Strategy | Consulting | Project Management | Interim | Available Recently I was asked how I, as an Enterprise Architect, am looking at cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services (AWS). How would this fit in my world? This view could help make AWS training for (Enterprise) architects more attractive. Well…. Here it is. Amazon Web Services AWS is primarily Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). AWS has a wide scope of different services allowing you to configure entire complex, powerful, secure, scalable and high-available IT environments consisting of private networks, gateways,… Read More
Continue ReadingAlexa, Lambda & One Time Passwords – A match made in heaven
By now, you must have heard of the amazing Amazon Echo devices; smart speaker/microphone devices backed up by the Alexa voice service. Now, the cool thing is you can build your own skills quite easily. Register as a developer and start building your custom skill so your Echo reacts to things like “what’s up for dinner?” or maybe something more useful. Your custom skill does require some programming but where to host this? Sounds event-driven… And yes, your custom skill can be implemented as a Lambda function running on AWS; reliable, scalable and only consuming resources when actually invoked. So what shall we build? Since we are well into AWS anyway, we’ve choosen… Read More
Continue ReadingAWS QuickSight
We’ve been in the preview for QuickSight for a while now- looking forward to precisely this moment where AWS declares it open to the public! Let’s see what we can do. The first thing comes to mind is use QuickSight to visualise a sample multi-account detailed billing report: We have a few static websites running entirely of S3. Using S3 bucket access logs, we can now try and do some analysis on traffic and visitors. The first diagram nicely shows us what elements generate most outgoing-traffic (and thus, cost): Of course there are many, many more options possible. If in doubt, look at the tutorial video’s in the QuickSight console. Thing is;… Read More
Continue ReadingVisualize EC2 Performance and Pricing
As a Unix expert, I used to think everything is a file. Now I know better: everything is an API (or should be). AWS took this to the max by even disclosing their prices and specifications through an API. That allows us to write code that presents the EC2 specs and prices in a whole new way. We ingest the AWS specs and prices daily and store it in a bucket for future reference. When you direct your browser to http://selec2or.info you get a view on this data. Hitting the big green ‘graphics’ button changes the view. From the traditional ‘table’ view we have got used to over the last hundreds… Read More
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