Emre Yilmaz @emrey_shikisoft

📣 Tomorrow, I will be at the AWS Cloud Day Türkiye event in Istanbul. They appear to have interesting sessions on AI. If you have joined my online courses and will also be there, I would be delighted to meet you and discuss your experiences. 👍 See you there!…

For disaster recovery, I use the S3 Glacier Deep Archive to back up my video courses' Final Cut Pro X libraries. Utilizing S3 lifecycle management and the correct storage class for my backup files and efficiently deleting previous versions when they are no longer relevant has…

So, which EC2 instance type is right for you? 🤔 Amazon EC2 instances allow you to create your own virtual servers in the cloud, freeing you from the burden of maintaining your own physical architecture. 😎 EC2 provides various instance type choices to host your applications.…

After every AWS exam, I write my experiences in a post on the Shikisoft Blog. I last renewed my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification for the second time three months ago, but I have had a chance to write about it now. ✍ I also included the topics that…

Emre Yilmaz @emrey_shikisoft

10 months ago

After every AWS exam, I write my experiences in a post on the Shikisoft Blog. I last renewed my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification for the second time three months ago, but I have had a chance to write about it now. ✍ I also included the topics that…

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NEW! 📣 There are three primary types of cloud computing services, according to how much management the cloud provider performs for the user. As the management level increases on one side, so do the responsibilities. These are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a…

Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉 I wish 2025 brings you health and happiness with your loved ones. Here is your New Year's gift! 🎁 I added section quizzes for the first five sections to my AWS CodePipeline Step by Step course on Udemy. I prepared 26 mostly scenario-based questions, some…

NEW BLOG POST! 🔔 Amazon SNS and SQS are two of the oldest AWS messaging services. So, what are their differences? Amazon SNS is push-based, whereas Amazon SQS is pull-based. But what do these mean, what are these services, and how can they help you?🤔 Can you use them…

Last Saturday, I recertified the king of the AWS certifications for the third time: AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional. 🎉 🎉 🎉 My first AWS certificate was AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate in 2017, which was also a prerequisite for the Professional…

Amazon Aurora Serverless can now scale down to 0 capacity units (ACUs), making it cost-effective when your application is idle. ✅ So, you can run MySQL or PostgreSQL databases in a truly serverless mind. You only pay for when your app is used. ❌ However, it is not ideal if…

Excellent! Amazon CloudFront announced many interesting updates. Let's summarize them in a single post. 🤔 🔸 With VPC origins, you can take all your AWS infrastructure to private subnets and use CloudFront as your only door to the Internet. This feature simplifies the process…

Amazon S3's bucket quota increase is enormous! 🚀🚀🚀 As far as I remember, the default quota was always 100 buckets per account. Now, it is 10,000 at the start, and you can request a quota increase of up to 1 million buckets. You can use S3 buckets for any use case that needs…

AWS CloudFormation's new timeline view is fantastic! 👏 Now, you can get better insights into the order of your resource creations. Let me share some screenshots. For example, in the screenshots attached, you can see that the DbSecurityGroup creation started after the…

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It's nice to have a native chaos engineering tool for AWS Lambda functions, especially with the recent support of the AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS)! 🤔 What is this about? You use AWS FIS to create disruptive events and test how your apps react. So, you get proactive by…

I'm super excited to finally announce AWS AppSync Events - a new feature that lets you easily build real-time experiences with WebSocket APIs! 🚀 No more worrying about WebSocket infrastructure or scaling. Just create your API and publish events.

Yay! After CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild also supports retries. You can now configure a retry limit on your CodeBuild projects, allowing you to automatically retry failed executions caused by transient issues. ❗ It is not supported on AWS CodePipeline and webhook-triggered…

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An interesting way to configure CDK apps across multiple AWS accounts using a function to get config info according to an environment variable provided with the cdk deploy command. An alternative way may be providing a CDK context instead of the environment variable. However,…

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11 months ago

An interesting way to configure CDK apps across multiple AWS accounts using a function to get config info according to an environment variable provided with the cdk deploy command. An alternative way may be providing a CDK context instead of the environment variable. However,…

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Amazon Aurora now provides Global Database writer endpoints. 👏 So, you don't need to change your DB connections after an unplanned failover or a planned switchover. 🤔 What is this about? Aurora Global Database allows you to set up multiple Aurora clusters in different AWS…

AWS CodePipeline introduced automatic retries in stage failures. If an action or a stage fails in your CI/CD pipeline, it can be automatically retried. You don't have to rerun the pipeline from the start. 🤔 Where can this be helpful? ✅ Retrying may be successful if the…