Articles tagged with "level-200"

In the dynamic landscape of search and analytics engines, AWS users often find themselves weighing the merits of OpenSearch against Elasticsearch. While both platforms offer robust search capabilities, Amazon OpenSearch Service emerges as the superior option for those operating within the AWS ecosystem. This comprehensive analysis delves into the reasons why OpenSearch stands out and how it compares to Elasticsearch, particularly for AWS users.

Amazon OpenSearch is a powerful, scalable search and analytics service offered by AWS. As organizations increasingly rely on OpenSearch for critical data operations, implementing robust backup and restore strategies becomes paramount. This article provides a comprehensive guide to OpenSearch backup and restore, helping AWS practitioners make informed decisions about data protection and disaster recovery.

In a recent Developing on AWS course I was faced with an interesting question about DynamoDB. What happens if you create an item that features attributes of a global secondary index with a data type that doesn’t match the index? My intuition was wrong, let’s check out what actually happens.

Response headers play a vital role in reinforcing security measures, protecting against various attacks, and enhancing the overall security of your web applications. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to implement a CloudFront response header policy to improve security, walk through the process of testing and refining your settings, and discuss how to automate these changes across your infrastructure.

Struggling with URL redirections for your AWS-hosted website? If you’re using an S3 bucket as your origin, you might have noticed that S3 alone doesn’t support dynamic redirects via server-side rules. That’s where AWS CloudFront Functions come in—offering a fast, simple, and cost-effective way to manage redirections. In this guide, we’ll show you how CloudFront can handle your URL redirections without requiring separate S3 buckets or CloudFront distributions, streamlining your architecture and improving your website’s SEO and user experience.

When discussing AWS pricing with customers, limitations in the official AWS Pricing Calculator can sometimes hinder accurate cost estimations. This blog post addresses a specific challenge encountered with AWS CloudWatch Synthetics pricing and provides a solution by building a custom calculator using the AWS Pricing API.

Switching the Identity Provider in the IAM Identity Center while keeping all permissions intact and minimizing disruptions can be a daunting task. In this post I’m explaining how we solved this for one of our customers.

AWS DataSync is a service that simplifies and accelerates data migrations not only to but also from and between AWS storage services. In this blog post we will see how to leverage it to migrate data from an EFS file system to an Amazon S3 bucket.