Upgrade Elasticsearch from 2.3 to 7.4
Photo by Marten Newhall on Unsplash Sometimes it is common just to deploy a Elasticsearch domain at AWS and forget to keep it up-to-date with the latest version. After a while, you realize that it’s five major releases behind the stable version and there’s no straight path to upgrade. The idea of this post is to show the […]
AWS ECR — Improving container security by using Docker image scanning
Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash Following the HIPAA compliance along with our Foundation and application modernisation, we have been asked to add more security layers, especially on the application modernisation step. How to create a docker image repository? In your AWS console on the search bar, look for ‘Elastic Container Registry’ and then ‘Create repository’. You will see this […]
DNX Tech Update: April-May
At DNX we are committed to democratizing cloud technologies. Part of our plan is to develop and release to the public a large part of what we use with our clients. After a little more than 1 year, this strategy translated into: And here’s our update of that happened in the last few months. DNX […]
Using Multiple Buckets AWS Amplify
From the Amplify documentation, we can consider that AWS Amplify is a development platform for building secure, scalable mobile and web applications. It makes it easy for you to authenticate users, securely store data and user metadata, authorize selective access to data, integrate machine learning, analyze application metrics, and execute server-side code. Amplify covers the […]
Multi developer environments on AWS using Gitlab + Terraform + Serverless + React
We are using Gitlab to deploy our applications directly to AWS through pipelines. If you never heard about Gitlab (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/), please feel free to read the Gitlab’s white papers and understand more about the tools. Maybe you are wondering why we don’t use Github/Actions to deploy our applications, and I’ll answer you with a simple […]
tech2: Implementing continuous delivery running .NET core workloads in AWS
DNX is all about helping our customers to leverage effective scalability, security and zero downtime deployments. About tech2 tech2 is an Australian-owned company that engages in a wide range of technical operations and installation activities across the nation. With over 22 years of experience, tech2 is dedicated to providing efficient and reliable technology solutions spanning […]
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 […]
UORDERIT: AWS Platform, CICD and Application Migration
DNX is all about helping our customers to leverage effective scalability, security and zero downtime deployments. About Uorderit UORDERIT is an Australian B2B platform for customers to source, rate and review Technology Companies. The platform enables customers to browse and choose from a comprehensive list of Australian and Global Technology firms. The platform is based […]
ByteIQ: Building an AWS Platform for Digital Health companies
About ByteIQ ByteIQ is a digital health startup focused on big data, they planned to use AWS to run all products and leverage AWS security and compliance standards. ByteIQ worked with DNX Solutions to design, implement and support an efficient AWS platform which allowed them to achieve 30% cost savings compared to the projected costs. […]