https://myaws.name/tags/basics/Recent content in Basics on My AWS Rocks!HugoenMon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://myaws.name/well-architected-part3/Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://myaws.name/well-architected-part3/<p>This is the final part in a three part series on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. It is based on my presentation at the AWS Thames Valley user group &ldquo;<strong>How to design well when there is no rule book</strong>&rdquo;. In this part we will look at how to use the Well-Architected Framework and also some resources to help you further understand the framework and review process.</p> <hr> <h2 id="how-not-to-use-it">How not to use it</h2> <p>Firstly I think we should look at how not to use the framework and review as often I see people getting dishearten or resenting the review because it is used in the wrong way.</p>https://myaws.name/why-cloudformation/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://myaws.name/why-cloudformation/<p>People have asked why I use CloudFormation (CFN) and not other tools such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). There are several reasons for this.</p> <p><strong>Firstly</strong>, I&rsquo;m not a developer. I come from an infrastructure background and although understand scripting and programming constructs it&rsquo;s not my expertise. This means no matter what tool I had to learn it was all relatively new to me.</p> <p><strong>Secondly</strong>, when I started my Infrastructure as Code (IaC) journey Terraform had been out for less than a year. I was also working with AWS engineers who only dealt in CFN templates and the boot-camp I attended at re:invent 2015 all focused on CFN.</p>