Posts tagged with AWS:


Wednesday, 16 August 2023

Aurora Serverless – a migration story
Philip McMahon

On our team we swapped databases 6 times in a year. We’ve landed on Aurora Serverless V2 – was it worth it?

AWS  

A mix of dark and light clouds in the sky on a day of sunshine and showers. Seasonal weather, Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, UK - 10 May 2023

Friday, 20 December 2019

Securing and centrally monitoring accounts in Amazon Web Services
Kate Whalen

An introduction to AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS StackSets and how they can support cloud security checks.

AWS   Security  

cctv cameras attached to an observation pole, with the sky and clouds in the background

Friday, 30 November 2018

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
Philip McMahon, Maria-Livia Chiorean, Susie Coleman, Akash Askoolum

In April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how

AWS   PostgreSQL  

An elephant picking up some greenery

Friday, 18 May 2018

Why the Guardian is using encrypted EC2 root volumes on AWS
Simon Hildrew

In an ongoing effort to adhere to security best practices the Guardian is starting to use encrypted root volumes by default on servers in AWS.

AWS   Security  


Saturday, 24 December 2016

Scanamo: simpler, safer DynamoDB access for Scala
Phil Wills

DynamoDB provides a completely managed key-value store with some querying capabilities, but AWS’s Java client from Scala can be cumbersome and error-prone. The Guardian’s open-source library, Scanamo, provides a simpler alternative that reduces the scope for runtime errors.

AWS   Advent developer blog 2016   DynamoDB   Scala  

A supermassive black hole in the core of galaxy named MCG 6-30-15. Scientists for the first time have seen energy being extracted from a black hole. Like an electric dynamo, this black hole spins and pumps energy out through cable-like magnetic field lines into the chaotic gas whipping around it, making the gas - already infernally hot from the sheer force of crushing gravity - even hotter.

Thursday, 4 February 2016

Migrating Postgres to RDS without downtime
Nicolas Long

Our experience migrating from a self-managed Postgres cluster to RDS, without downtime.

AWS   PostgreSQL   Software