AWS

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is one of the most important services available in AWS. Most people know that you can create user accounts and assign permissions (policies). In this blog post, I will look at a few more advanced features of the AWS IAM. AWS policies can have conditions AWS policies can have conditions. That means that you can apply a policy that would only work in a specific time window. This can be for example next Wednesday between 1 pm and 4 pm if you expect a user to need specific permission around this time. In general, you can use these conditions to grant and revoke permissions to do things at specific dates and times. ...

I have been posting a little bit less recently. In some ways, it is easier to write two blog posts a week than one blog post once in a while. I have recently read the book titled “Atomic Habit” that motivated me to fix this state of affairs! As you might know, I have written over 100 blog posts in 2018 as a sort of personal challenge. It was not easy, but it was immensely satisfying! You can check out my summary post about this. ...

Happy New Year to all my readers! I hope you missed these blog posts at least a little bit. I had a good rest during the festive period and feel ready to start writing and hacking again. In this article, I want to tell you about my most recent fascination- programming for Alexa (Echo) enabled devices. What is Alexa You probably know all about Alexa, but let’s make sure that we are all on the same page. Alexa is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon that can leave in different devices. Most popular of those are probably the Echo series developed by Amazon. Here is my Echo Spot: ...

Machine Learning and its applications are getting more popular every day. For many developers, building a machine learning powered application seems like a daunting task- all this learning, data collection, and computing power needed! In reality, it is not as difficult as it sounds- as long as you harness “the power of the Cloud”… In this article, I want to tell you about different machine learning services provided by AWS and give some ideas about how you could use them! Ready to get inspired? Let’s go! ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular Cloud solution out there. More and more companies are using it every day. It makes development easier, safer, cheaper and better. Since it is becoming an expectation for backend developers to be familiar with AWS (or other Cloud solutions) I compiled here some of the best resources and ideas for learning it. What does it mean to learn AWS? Before learning AWS, it is worth thinking what you want to get out of that learning. Are you more interested in designing solutions or actually working with some of the cloud services provided? AWS recognizes three key ways of learning AWS: ...