The Daily Dose
Our regularly updated blog on all the things that we think you will find interesting. AWS, Cloud, Healthcare, Mobile apps, tutorials and more.
Top 25 AWS Services
Learn about our Top AWS Services for 2023 and prepare your journey through the cloud with precision and confidence.
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Top 10 AWS Migration Services
Discover our top services for helping you migrate over to the AWS cloud.
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AWS Business Continuity Plan
Learn how to create an effective business continuity plan for your AWS stack.
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AWS Web Application Firewall
If your web apps or APIs are at risk of being hacked or compromised by bots, AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a virtual firewall that can assist defend you from these threats. AWS WAF gives you comprehensive control over traffic accessing your applications by allowing you to set security rules that restrict bot traffic and stop classic attack types like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Additionally, you have the option of creating rules that only allow certain types of traffic.
How to create IAM roles for VPC access using IAM Groups and Roles
This comprehensive guide covers how to create IAM Roles for VPC access using IAM Groups and Roles.
Amazon CloudFront vs. Cloudflare
Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are a series of global servers installed with the intention of streamlining and optimizing content delivery to end users. This is accomplished by localizing the information being accessed in a region near the user to reduce the time it takes for that information to travel to and from the servers. There are plenty of moving parts to this system and AWS does provide its own set of tools for ensuring distribution of your content.
AWS Amplify
At its core, AWS Amplify is a suite of purpose-built tools and capabilities meant to make building full-stack applications on AWS a breeze for front-end web and mobile developers. Using Amplify’s web and mobile app backends, you can create an app’s front end graphically, connect your app in minutes, and manage content outside of Amazon’s UI.. With no knowledge of cloud computing, you may more quickly get your items to market and expand your company. In order to construct a complete application, encompassing front-end user interfaces and back-end systems, you must utilize a visual programming language like Java or C++. You can link your web and mobile apps to new and current AWS resources with just a few lines of code. Within minutes, static websites, single-page web applications, and server-side rendered applications can all be built and hosted.
Amazon Rekognition
Computer vision (CV) capabilities provided by Amazon Rekognition are pre-trained and programmable, making it easy to extract data and insights from images and videos. Pre-trained or configurable computer vision APIs can be swiftly integrated into your apps without the need to build machine learning (ML) models and infrastructure from scratch. Images and videos are analyzed in minutes using artificial intelligence to assist people in visual assessment tasks that would otherwise be performed manually (AI).
Amazon Redshift vs. Snowflake
Intelligent decision-making based on data is the soul of today’s successful companies. Cloud data warehouses are used by most businesses to store operational data and facilitate business intelligence and data analysis.
AWS CloudFormation vs. Terraform
The term “infrastructure as code” (IaC) has been popular recently, and for good reason. IaC, or software-defined infrastructure, is an IT setup where developers or operations teams continuously manage and provision the technological stack for an application via software, rather than manually configuring separate hardware devices and operating systems. As an essential part of DevOps, it attempts to boost productivity, quality, and timeliness in organizations.
AWS CloudFormation or the open-source Terraform tool is frequently the first two options that come to mind when looking for tools to implement infrastructure as code on AWS. In order to help you decide which is best for your situation, we’ll go over the differences between them.
10 AWS Security Tools to Implement in Your Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS) scale very easily and securely with your application of choice. That’s not to say it is completely safe against intrusions. At least 70 percent of IT enterprise leaders are concerned about how secure the cloud is according to this report. As time progresses, there will be no end to those looking to exploit whatever loophole they can find in your security.
Making More with Less on AWS
Is operational efficiency the biggest undermining factor for your AWS environment? Do you need a helping hand to ensure that each cent spent goes towards maximizing production? Here at AllCode, our expertise with AWS can help you see increased savings month over month. In just the first month of use alone, you can expect to see as much as 10% saved on your AWS bill.
How to Reduce Your AWS Bill
The extensive range of services and pricing options provided by AWS gives you the freedom to successfully control your costs while still maintaining the performance and capacity necessary for your organization. In this blog post, I will take a more tactical approach to reduce costs with changes in user demand. While the fundamental process of cost optimization on AWS remains the same – monitoring your AWS costs and usage, analyzing the data to find savings, and taking action to realize the savings is crucial in saving you money.
How to create IAM roles for EC2 access using IAM Groups
In this comprehensive guide, we discuss how to create IAM roles for EC2 access using IAM Groups.
How to Migrate On-Premise Database to AWS
An automated lift-and-shift (rehost) service, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of transferring applications to AWS.
Creating An Amazon EC2 IAM User Group for 3rd Party Developers
When you’re bringing on 3rd party developers to your AWS environment, you want to make sure that you don’t give them too much access to your AWS Infrastructure. Our recommendation is to create a User Group, and then to add the 3rd party users to the User Group.
Creating A New AWS EC2 Key For A 3rd Party Developer
When you create a new EC2 instance you automatically download a ppk (or pem) key for that instance. This only happens once and generating a new one can be complicated so please take care to put it somewhere secure. As such you might want to give your developer team another key which you can delete if the need arises without risking access to your services.
Creating An IAM User For Third Party Developers
In this step-by-step guide, we’ll go over the process of creating an IAM user for third party developers.
What is Tigera?
An AWS Advanced Technology Partner, Tigera delivers Calico and Calico Enterprise for security and networking on EKS, both of which are AWS Containers Competency certified.
Vezt
Blockchain technology has the potential to be a windfall for musicians, filmmakers, and video game developers. With the advent of new technology, the way we consume entertainment is changing. Vezt assists artists in distributing their tracks on digital channels and in promoting their work.
Software Development Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a technique in which certain work is sent to a third-party vendor rather than being...
How Mobile Apps Integrate with the Back-End
Mobile Apps Integrate – The professional developer with expertise in the Back-End is responsible for developing the internal layer of the system, all coding involving the database, executing the website’s functionalities and processing the data obtained from the Front-End.
Top Platforms for NFTs: Polygon and Flow
As blockchain technology continues to develop, we are seeing an increase in the number of platforms, languages, and applications. Your works of art and collectables can now be presented and traded in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are a relatively new development.
How to Verify an NFT on the Mumbai Test Network 4/4
This is part 4 in a 4 step tutorial to minting NFTs on Polygon where we’ll verify an NFT using Hardhat on the Mumbai test network for Polygon.
How to Deploy an NFT to the Mumbai Test Network 3/4
This is part 3 in a 4 step tutorial to minting NFTs on Polygon where we’ll deploy an NFT to the Mumbai test network for Polygon.
How to Write a Hardhat NFT Smart Contract for Polygon 2/4
This is part 2 of a 4 part tutorial for developing NFTs on Polygon where we write a Hardhat NFT Smart Contract and deploy it to the Hardhat in-memory network.
What are NFTs? Understanding Non-Fungible Tokens
If you’ve been following the tech news lately, you’ve probably come across terms like Bitcoin, blockchain, and, more recently, non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Stories of multi-million dollar auctions for digital assets have piqued the interest of artists and collectors alike. However, what exactly are NFTs? And how do they operate?
How to Mint NFTs on Polygon
Why should you learn how to mint NFTs on Polygon? Well, there is a rumor floating around that Coinbase is going to leverage Polygon for their NFT platform. Why would Coinbase use Polygon, the L2 layer that sits on top of Ethereum? The gas prices on Polygon are cheap and the protocol works.
How to Create NFTs on Flow with IPFS
NBA Top Shot is one of the earliest uses of the Flow blockchain. It’s been a smashing success in part because DapperLabs and Flow are trying to bring crypto to the masses.
Let’s Save the Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are in danger due to pollution from humans and climate change. Many people may not realize that humans are dependent upon the livelihood of coral reefs.
How To Enroll For the Apple Developer Program as a Company
Enrolling as a Company to the Apple Developer Program can be a painful process. In this tutorial, we’ll try to make that process easier.
How to Upload NFT Content to IPFS via Pinata
The easiest way to upload your content to IPFS is to make use of Pinata. Not only does Pinata enable you to easily place a file onto your own IPFS account, Pinata also provides you with other handy features so you don’t have to become an IPFS expert.
How to Mint NFTs on Flow
This is part of a three step tutorial on minting NFTs on Flow.