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Blue-Green Deployments for Amazon ECS Fargate with CodeDeploy, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

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Blue-green deployment is a software release strategy that minimizes downtime and risk by running two identical environments, "blue" and "green." At any given time, one environment (e.g., blue) is live and serving traffic, while the other (green) is idle and used for staging new updates. Once the updates are tested and validated in the green … Continue reading Blue-Green Deployments for Amazon ECS Fargate with CodeDeploy, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Linux using user data

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs Agent is a software component installed on servers that allows Cloud Engineering teams to monitor and collect log files from the servers and applications in real time. It sends log data to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, where they can be analyzed, searched, and visualized, thus making it easier to troubleshoot issues and monitor … Continue reading Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Linux using user data

Create AWS Lambda Layer using Docker, Terraform and GitHub Actions

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A Lambda layer is a distribution mechanism for libraries, custom runtimes, or other dependencies required in the AWS Lambda functions. Cloud engineers can manage and reuse these libraries and dependencies across multiple functions by packaging them into a layer. By the end of this note, you will learn how to create a Lambda layer for … Continue reading Create AWS Lambda Layer using Docker, Terraform and GitHub Actions

Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Windows using user data

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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides. It monitors log files, collects and tracks metrics, sets alarms, and triggers actions to help AWS users ensure the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure resources. CloudWatch integrates with various AWS services, such as Amazon EC2, to provide comprehensive … Continue reading Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Windows using user data