Category: AWS Blogs

Terraform as “infrastructure as code” seems to be very capable and have a very similar concept that of AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK.

what’s more interesting is you can build all the AWS services through this!

Overview –Provision AWS infrastructure using Terraform (By HashiCorp) blog

Many web and mobile applications can make use of AWS services and infrastructure to log or ingest data from customer actions and behaviors on the websites or mobile apps, to provide recommendations for better user experience. There are several ‘infrastructure as code’ frameworks available today, to help customers define their infrastructure, such as the AWS CDK or Terraform by HashiCorp. In this blog, we will walk you through a use case of logging customer behavior data on web-application and will use Terraform to model the AWS infrastructure.

The data ingestion process is exposed with an API Gateway endpoint. The Amazon API Gateway processes the incoming data into an AWS Lambda during which the system validates the request using a Lambda Authorizer and pushes the data to a Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The solution leverages Firehose’s capability to convert the incoming data into a Parquet file (an open source file format for Hadoop) before pushing it to Amazon S3 using AWS Glue catalog. Additionally, a transformational/consumer lambda does additional processing by pushing it to Amazon DynamoDB.

Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/provision-aws-infrastructure-using-terraform-by-hashicorp-an-example-of-web-application-logging-customer-data/

Overview – AWS CDK .NET for Batch blog

This post provides a file processing implementation using Docker images and Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Batch. In this scenario, the user uploads a CSV file to into an Amazon S3 bucket, which is processed by AWS Batch as a job. These jobs can be packaged as Docker containers and are executed using Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/orchestrating-an-application-process-with-aws-batch-using-aws-cdk/

Overview – AWS Batch blog

This post provides a file processing implementation using Docker images and Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Batch. In this scenario, the user uploads a CSV file into an Amazon S3 bucket, which is processed by AWS Batch as a job. These jobs can be packaged as Docker containers and are executed using Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/orchestrating-an-application-process-with-aws-batch-using-aws-cloudformation/

Overview – AWS .NET Core Aurora CDK blog –

Many existing .NET Core applications can be containerized using docker and AWS services like Amazon EC2/ Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Systems Manager (SSM), Amazon Aurora Database providing a full blown API application system. The application architecture is complemented by build & pipeline tools like AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild using AWS CloudFormation. At the end of this blog, we will create a simple Microsoft .NET Web API for a ToDo Application

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/developing-a-microsoft-net-core-web-api-application-with-aurora-database-using-aws-cdk/

AWS CDK

Using CDK constructs, we have built the above infrastructure and integrated the solution with a Public Load Balancer. The output of this stack will give the API URLs for health check and API validation. As you notice by defining the solution using CDK, you were able to:

• Use object-oriented techniques to create a model of your system
• Organize your project into logical modules
• Code completion within your IDE

Other major advantages using this CDK approach include, as a developer/development team we should be able to

• Use logic (if statements, for-loops, etc) when defining your infrastructure
• Define high level abstractions, share them, and publish them to your team, company, or community
• Share and reuse your infrastructure as a library
• Testing your infrastructure code using industry-standard protocols
• Use your existing code review workflow

Overview – AWS .NET Core Aurora CloudFormation blog –

Many existing .NET Core applications can be containerized using docker and AWS services like Amazon EC2/ Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Systems Manager (SSM), Amazon Aurora Database providing a full blown API application system. The application architecture is complemented by build & pipeline tools like AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild using AWS CloudFormation. At the end of this blog, we will create a simple Microsoft .NET Web API for a ToDo Application

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/developing-a-microsoft-net-core-web-api-application-with-aurora-database-using-cloudformation/