The AWS DeepComposer has been around for about 2 years now. It is an AWS service that follows in the similar services of AWS DeepLens and AWS DeepRacer whose intentions are to provide fun, educational ways to learn about deep learning. AWS DeepComposer allows you to record a melody and then transform it using one […]
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Docker Registry credentials in AWS CloudFormation templates
With the changes at Docker Hub recently around image pulls and authentication, you might run into the situation where your AWS CloudFormation template pulls an image and receives an authorization error message. This can happen if you’re trying to deploy to Amazon ECS or just on an Amazon EC2 instance. Note that this post doesn’t […]
Data engineering in today’s clouds
Data is all around us. Some of it we can easily see, some of it we can’t see until we have a reason to gather it into a form that’s usable. Some data streams like weather stations stream data in constantly. Other data is generated through activities like web browsing or photographs uploaded to a […]
“Let’s Build Something!” with Mike Chambers
I was recently invited to be a guest on Mike Chambers‘ (an AWS Hero) show! On this episode Mike wired together the final pieces to make his machine learning model in SageMaker available through API Gateway endpoint and a static website in S3. He did the coding live and it worked great! The small web […]
S3 Bucket Policy for VPC Flow Logs
If you are making a CloudFormation template and including an S3 bucket for logs you are probably setting a bucket policy. Here’s a hard to find problem. Let’s say you are configuring VPC flog logs and CloudTrail logs to go to the same logs bucket. Makes sense right? So to make that happen you make […]
Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes
On Feb 13, 2017, Amazon Web Services announced elastic EBS volumes! If you have used EC2 much you have undoubtedly been frustrated by the rigidness of EBS volumes. Once created they could not be modified or resized. If your EC2 instance required more disk space your only option was to manually create a new volume of […]
AWS EC2 Metadata Simulator
There is a new project on GitHub that is an EC2 metadata simulator. The project allows for testing applications that depend on EC2 instance metadata in non-AWS environments. It doesn’t (yet) provide complete simulation of all EC2 metadata endpoints but in time it will and in the mean time it should be simple enough to […]
AWS CloudFormation Supports YAML
In an exciting update from AWS, it was announced that CloudFormation now supports YAML in addition to JSON. I think most of us will agree this is great. The JSON templates worked, but whew, were they hard to read and the lack of the ability to add comments sometimes made my templates look more like sudokus […]