Posts tagged with AWS:
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Aurora Serverless – a migration story
Philip McMahonOn our team we swapped databases 6 times in a year. We’ve landed on Aurora Serverless V2 – was it worth it?
Friday, 20 December 2019
Securing and centrally monitoring accounts in Amazon Web Services
Kate WhalenAn introduction to AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS StackSets and how they can support cloud security checks.
Friday, 30 November 2018
Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
Philip McMahon, Maria-Livia Chiorean, Susie Coleman, Akash AskoolumIn 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
Friday, 18 May 2018
Why the Guardian is using encrypted EC2 root volumes on AWS
Simon HildrewIn an ongoing effort to adhere to security best practices the Guardian is starting to use encrypted root volumes by default on servers in AWS.
Saturday, 24 December 2016
Scanamo: simpler, safer DynamoDB access for Scala
Phil WillsDynamoDB 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.
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Migrating Postgres to RDS without downtime
Nicolas LongOur experience migrating from a self-managed Postgres cluster to RDS, without downtime.