Do you recognize this view when looking into your CloudWatch log groups? Each AWS Lambda function has an associated CloudWatch log group. However, there is no cleanup process available as soon as a relationship between a CloudWatch log group and Lambda function expires. In that case it’s necessary to remove these old log groups manually. […]
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A CloudFormation stack evolves over time and usually costs increase as well. You’ll probably not only have one stack, but instead have at least a production and a development stack. Even one development stack per developer might be common in your organization. This means the total costs increase even more. In order to prevent paying
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Recently, a question on stackoverflow.com popped up which asked for different environments with AWS CloudFormation. Here, I want to present my answer and give some more information about this topic. The code for this blog post can be found in my GitHub repository where I also have some more CloudFormation examples.
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Recently, I came across a limit which I haven’t known before: CloudFormation just allows a maximum size of 51,200 bytes per template. If you have ever reached this limit, you might have encountered this error message: [YOUR_TEMPLATE_CODE] at ‘templateBody’ failed to satisfy constraint: Member must have length less than or equal to 51200 So, what
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Today I want to show you three starter projects for AWS Lambda using CloudFormation and SAM – Serverless Application Model. I always like if I have some boilerplate code and can get started quickly without copying code or project structures from an existing (and mature) project. Therefore I thought it’s good to have them in
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