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DynamoDB: adding a Local covering index to reduce the cost

By Franck Pachot . This is a continuation on the previous post on DynamoDB: adding a Global Covering Index to reduce the cost. I have a DynamoDB partitioned on “MyKeyPart”,”MyKeySort” and I have many queries(…)

DynamoDB: adding a Global covering index to reduce the cost

By Franck Pachot . People often think of indexes as a way to optimize row filtering (“get item” faster and cheaper). But indexes are also about columns (“attribute projection”) like some kind of vertical partitioning. In relational (“SQL”) databases(…)

Restore S3 Object with AWSPOWERSHELL

AWS S3 offers different Storage Classes, allowing to optimize cost among others. For instance, some classes are used for archiving purposes: S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. It means the(…)

A simple Terraform script to create an AWS EC2 playground

When I started to write the blog about AWS SSM I quickly realized that I need a way to bring up and destroy my AWS EC2 playground in an easy and reproducible way. There are several(…)

Avoiding patching madness by using AWS SSM

As we have more and more customers either currently moving to AWS or already moved much, if not even all, of their workloads to AWS, one question pops up quite frequently: Now that we have so(…)

Managing Licenses with AWS License Manager

Introduction Computing environments became more and more agile over these last years. Companies need to provide solutions helping people to quickly set up new resources, starting and stopping them, scaling them according to the need and finally, removing them. In(…)

Schedule reboots of your AWS instances and how that can result in a hard reboot and corruption

From time to time you might require to reboot your AWS instances. Maye you applied some patches or for whatever reason. Rebooting an AWS instance can be done in several ways: You can of course do that directly from the(…)

AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 5 – Final day

On Friday, it’s the last day for AWS re:Invent convention in Las Vegas. I didn’t know in advance what to expect because I have to admit that even if I started to use AWS, there is still a lot to learn.

AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 4

Thursday morning it’s time for the keynote from Dr Werner Vogels. A big part of the keynote was about databases again. Maybe AWS people knows that there are still lots of DBAs out there! It’s also again a focus on(…)

AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 3

On Wednesday morning, this is the big day for AWS re:Invent conference. The day started with a 3 hours keynote from Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS.The keynote covered a lot of different topics: databases, blockchain, machine learning… As most keynotes,(…)