Introduction EC2 M1 Mac instances now bring Arm64 macOS support, including AMIs for macOS versions 11, 12, and 13, with up to 60% improved price performance on AWS as compared to x86-based EC2 Mac instances. In this blog post, we will show how to deploy a M1 Mac (mac2.metal instance) running…

Introduction Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed AWS service that is used to build generative AI applications using foundation models (FM) from Amazon and third-party model providers accessible through an API. In this blog post, we’ll take you on a journey to implement a Generative AI based Food Recipe App hosted…

Mounting Amazon S3 buckets as local drives is a powerful way to seamlessly integrate cloud storage into your daily workflow. Last month, AWS released mountpoint for S3 as an open source file client that you can use to mount an S3 bucket on your compute instance (Linux) and access it…

As you would have read in AWS News Blog, starting February 1, 2024, there’s a new charge for public IPv4 addresses. Now, every public IPv4 address will come with a price tag of $0.005 per IP per hour or $3.75 per month or $45 per year. And yes, that applies…

In this technical blog, we will walk you through the process of securely connecting to an AWS Redshift cluster using EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint (EICE) and also demo how to provision all AWS resources using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). …

This blog post will show you how to set up a CI/CD pipeline using Amazon CodeCatalyst from scratch for deploying an Alexa Skill with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2. The Alexa Skill once deployed by CDK v2 pipeline will let you interact with the Alexa Developer Console…

Introduction: Home security cameras have evolved to offer advanced features and companion applications that empower users to remotely monitor and detect activities in and around their homes using their mobile devices. However, extracting valuable insights from the data captured by these devices can be a complex task, as the footage…

AWS Config provides the ability to track the configuration of various resources, including custom resources that are not natively supported by AWS Config. In this blog post, we will discuss a solution that allows you to create your own configuration item records for a Google Storage Bucket, which is a…

CloudTrail and Logging: CloudWatch doesn’t stream logs to S3; it supports exporting them to S3 with an up to 12-hour expected delay. Amazon Inspector checks network reachability by analyzing the ports an instance is listening on. The PutLogEvents command has limitations on log batches’ time frames. You can send logs from your web…