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AWS Lightsail load balancers
A Lightsail load balancer distributes incoming application traffic among multiple Lightsail instances, in multiple Availability Zones. Load balancing can increase the fault tolerance of your applications and helps makes them more highly available. The load balancer...
Amazon Lightsail vs. EC2: Do updates tip the scale?
Developers can use Amazon Lightsail to spin up servers and web applications as a single package. It's less configurable than what they can create on Amazon EC2, but it's also a lot easier to deploy and estimate costs. In 2017, I wrote a detailed analysis on...
Atlassian’s not-so-magic journey scaling low latency, multi-region services on AWS
Engineering stateless, high-availability cloud services comes with juuuuuuust a few challenges. Here’s how we (eventually) slayed the dragon. Atlassian went “all in” on AWS in 2016 and they continue to be our preferred cloud provider. The extent of that migration was...
EC2 A1 Instance with AWS Graviton Processor: Easy Way to Save 40%
AWS released A1 Instance Types at re:Invent 2018. Honestly, I didn’t think much about this announcement. I would see the ads for them when logging into the AWS console, and folks seem to be excited about them. So I started digging into what this whole...
A look at the AWS hardware update that fuels its A1 instances
One of the most significant updates to come out of AWS re:Invent this year was about a processor, not a cloud service. On the first day of the user conference, AWS added A1 instances, a set of EC2 VMs powered by its own custom, Arm-based Graviton Processor....
Google Voice VoIP calls will be live for everyone by next week
Google took a long, long break from Google Voice a while back. After letting the app fall into disrepair, Google expressed a renewed commitment to Voice in 2017. It has since announced a handful of feature updates, including VoIP calling in 2018....