SweetOps #aws for November, 2024

Discussion related to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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2024-11-04

Joe Perez

I’ve had some great help on here with database upgrade questions, I put together some thoughts on my journey through aurora mysql upgrades https://www.taccoform.com/posts/blue_green_mysql/

Upgrading to mysql 8.0 with blue green deployments

Overview It’s everyone’s favorite task, database upgrade time. I think we’re all afraid of messing up a production database. Some of us have been through the fire and lived to tell about it. Either way, upgrades need to happen and this time is no different. AWS has made a very compelling case to upgrade from mysql 5.7 to 8.0 by introducing extended support for Aurora database clusters. All mysql 5.7 aurora database will be automatically enrolled in extended support at the end of October 2024. After enrollment, you can expect to expect to find new and unpleasant charges on your AWS bill.

2024-11-07

Vinko Vrsalovic

11:01:51 AM

Hey! We were expecting 10k in credits, but got the full 100k. Do you have any cool ideas to monetize them that are legal and compliant? With my service I won’t get close to that in two years, most likely. I guess crypto is very well monitored and out of compliance these days.

managedkaos

05:17:59 PM

you could try to roll your own little Heroku style service. Create an organization and and provision sub-accounts for folks to use the service. Bill them according to the resources they use (easily captured from the billing console using a per service report) and profit. You could even give 50-75% discount on AWS prices and still benefit if you are paying the main bill in AWS credits.

i think the hardest part will be getting folks to use your service and then getting them off the platform once (or raising rates) when all credits are exhausted.

This is not legally binding advice and is only shared for entertainment purposes.

Vinko Vrsalovic

05:19:07 PM

Yeah, thanks but that’s even clearer than crypto on the terms “you shall not resell or rent the credits”

Vinko Vrsalovic

05:20:05 PM

Maybe clone some AI SaaS and buy some ads

managedkaos

05:20:30 PM

OK i didn’t know all the fine print

i guess you could spec our your resources and services to use the highest tier available? Use those big servers that burn $30-40/hr to run a static website.

2024-11-08

2024-11-14

Michael

03:13:14 AM

Long live short lived creds

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/houstonhopkins_aws-root-access-managment-is-here-kiss-ugcPost-7262981365627793408-PXVG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

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AWS Root Access Managment is here! Kiss that stupid compliance MFA on root finding goodbye!!!

Props to all the folks at AWS that made this possible (and…

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2024-11-16

Leo Przybylski

08:10:16 PM

Orchestrate the orchestrator! I hope I don’t end up eating KRO for this. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-open-source-kro-kube-resource-orchestrator/

Leo Przybylski

08:10:28 PM

Thoughts?

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

01:19:38 PM

How can they make this announcement and not even acknowledge https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-controllers-for-kubernetes-ack/

Introducing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) | Amazon Web Services attachment image

AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) is a new tool that lets you directly manage AWS services from Kubernetes. ACK makes it simple to build scalable and highly-available Kubernetes applications that utilize AWS services. Today, ACK is available as a developer preview on GitHub. In this post we will give you a brief introduction to the […]

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

01:20:39 PM

https://github.com/aws-controllers-k8s

Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

01:20:47 PM

Or explain its relationship to it

bradym

06:20:06 PM

From today’s “Last Week in AWS”

Michael

03:23:17 AM

A new one-click integration on Application Load Balancer (ALB) to attach an Amazon CloudFront distribution

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/aws-application-load-balancer-cloudfront-integration-builtin-waf/

AWS Application Load Balancer announces CloudFront integration with built-in WAF - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Application Load Balancer announces CloudFront integration with built-in WAF

managedkaos

07:01:56 PM

I have some workloads that are perfect candidates with this. Looking forward to seeing how this is surfaced in Terraform. Meaning, it might already be there but I just haven’t gotten to it yet.

AWS Application Load Balancer announces CloudFront integration with built-in WAF - AWS

Discover more about what’s new at AWS with AWS Application Load Balancer announces CloudFront integration with built-in WAF