Reducing AWS costs by turning off development environments at night— the easy way (without Lambda)
Why keep your non-production environments up when nobody is up? An environment in AWS usually is a group of these resources: In this tutorial, we will show how to turn off the most costly members of an environment: EC2 and RDS instances. By shutting it down outside working hours, you can cut by around 50% […]
Exporting Cloudwatch Logs automatically to S3 with a Lambda function
The missing feature of Cloudwatch Logs. Your Cloudwatch Log Groups could look something like this: As you might guess, after the retention time, logs are deleted. And that’s a good approach for keeping the costs under control, but sometimes regulation mandates that logs are stored longer than this period. Luckly, AWS allows you to export […]
React w/ Hooks + Amplify + GraphQL
The launch of Hooks in React 16.8 made managing state simple, but most of the documentation is written using Redux examples, such as Amplify API for React. So for those who are learning React with Hooks without leveraging Redux, a simple example using Amplify + React w/ Hooks + GraphQL is more than welcome, so this Todo application will help you to understand how to perform a simple […]