Developing the typical user management use cases (user registration, confirmation, sign in , forgot password, reset password etc etc etc) in any application is often the bane of many a developers existence. Now, thanks to AWS Amplifiy this can quickly become a thing of the past. Continue reading
Category Archives: Amazon Web Services
A big year for HeartyHosting
Building on an excellent 2016, Boyle Software’s cloud services platform HeartyHosting added a slew of terrific new features in 2017. As an AWS partner, we continued to grow our expertise and extend our usage of Amazon’s best-of-breed services, continuously innovating and bringing our clients new levels of efficiency and value. The list of HeartyHosting’s new capabilities, upgrades, and offerings for this past year is impressive:
Amazon SNS Introduces Message Filtering
Build AR, VR, and 3D apps with Amazon Sumerian
Today Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Sumerian – a tool that lets developers create virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D applications quickly and easily.
Even without any specialized expertise, users of the platform can put together highly immersive experiences and environments to be used for any number of ways including education, training, service, marketing – you name it! Continue reading
Simple AWS Lambda and API Gateway with Claudia.js
For any of you Node.js folks out there already using serverless frameworks like ‘The Serverless Framework‘ , you’ll definitely want to checkout the really cool Claudia.js framework…
Claudia makes it easy to deploy Node.js projects to AWS Lambda and API Gateway. It automates all the error-prone deployment and configuration tasks, and sets everything up the way JavaScript developers expect out of the box. Continue reading
Convenient Semaphore with DynamoDB
DynamoDB is a non-blocking asynchronous storage, and it is great. Mostly. However, sometimes you just need to ensure that only one instance of script accesses a certain share of information in your table. In my case it was operation or purgin+rebuilding records, which under race conditions would result in a massive data loss.
So, I decided to build a semaphore. Continue reading
AWS Announces Per-Second Billing
AWS recently announced they will be moving to a per-second billing model for several services, most prominently their EC2 compute and EBS storage services. Previously they used a per-hour billing model, whereby if you launched an instance you were charged for a full hour minimum, even if you shut it down 10 minutes later. The changes will go into effect on October 2nd, and also includes the EMR and Batch services. For now only Linux instances are included.
New! AWS Migration Hub
Just announced today is a new collection of tools to help businesses move applications to the cloud – the AWS Migration Hub.
The Hub is organized into three categories which guide users through the process and offer status tracking and updates:
- Discover (understand all the moving parts)
- Migrate (connect tools and start the move)
- Track (track the status of your migrations)
The hub itself is free to use (but you will be charged for the use of AWS Services during the move.)
Read more about it here and let us know if you decide to give it a try!
Serverless v1.14 released
We love Serverless technology here at Boyle Software – being able to build applications comprised of microservices, which run in response to events, auto-scaling, being able to focus on the business problems rather than infrastructure, lower costs etc – the list goes on.
Amazon AI: Rekognition, Lex, Polly
Amazon launched AWS over 11 years ago, and it’s fair to say they’ve been the leader in Infrastructure as a Service for nearly all of the time since then. However when it comes to higher, application level services, they’ve lagged a bit behind the competition. However with the recent launch of several new offerings, they’re beginning to close that gap. At Amazon re:Invent 2016 in November, they launched a suite of services focused around Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.