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Improve RDS scalability and resilience with AWS RDS Proxy

AWS RDS Proxy improves database efficiency, application scalability, and security. With the use of RDS Proxy your applications are able to pool and share database connections. Removing the overhead of opening and closing connections....

January 21, 2022

Scheduled scaling for EC2 Auto Scaling

Scheduled scaling for EC2 Auto Scaling can help out with predicable load by specifying capacity changes on a schedule. For example when a busy period is expected or to save money for your development environment scaling them down outside office hours....

December 23, 2021

How to bootstrap an AWS account with Terraform state backend

If you want to create an infrastructure CI/CD pipeline for AWS using Terraform, you want to keep the state in a remote backend. When provisioning an environment with Terraform that includes the state backend resources, you will need two actions to set up the remote state backend....

November 6, 2021

How to access your AWS Secret Manager secrets in an Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster

By using the Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver you can provide pods with secrets from the AWS Secret Manager. This allows you to use the features the Secrets Manager has to offer within your EKS cluster....

November 3, 2021