How they AWS
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A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world use Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Introduction
How they AWS is a curated knowledge repository of engineering blog posts and videos covering architectures, deployment patterns and use of various AWS services by the leading technology or tech-savvy organizations.
Many organizations regularly come forward and share their best practices, architecture, trade-offs, tools, techniques and offer an insight into engineering culture on various public platforms like blogs, conferences & meetups. The content is curated from these avenues and shared in this repository.
Note to readers: This list refers to some of the articles, posts, videos, tools, and techniques published before 2015 (marked with
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Topics
AWS Compute, Storage, Network, Database services
Architectures
Deployment Patterns
Infrastructure as Code
SRE, DevOps
Incidents
Automation
Scalability, Performance
Security
Organizations
A Cloud Guru
Blog Posts
Videos
Airbnb
Blog Posts
Algolia
Blog Posts
Asana
Blog Posts
Atlassian
Blog Posts
Basecamp
Blog Posts
Box
Blog Posts
CapitalOne
Blog Posts
Building Intelligent, Elastic Architectures in the Cloud
Moving to DynamoDB to Increase Application Resiliency, 2021
Advice on Taking the AWS Machine Learning — Specialty Exam, 2021
Automate AWS Infrastructure with Boto 3 — AWS Instance Tags, 2020
Automate AWS Infrastructure with Boto 3: AWS Health Checks, 2020
Automate Your AWS Infrastructure with Boto 3 — AWS Snapshots, 2020
Guardrails for AWS Event-Driven Serverless Architectures, 2020
Starting Out with AWS & DevOps — 10 Tips From an Expert, 2020
Active-Active Shared-Nothing Database Architecture, 2020
AWS Lambda Java Tutorial: Best Practices to Lower Cold Starts, 2020
AWS Glue: An ETL Solution with Huge Potential, 2020
Terraform Poka-Yokes — Writing Effective, Scalable, Dynamic, and Error-Resistant Terraform, 2020
A Developer Walks into Amazon SageMaker…, 2029
A Deep Dive Into Seamless Blue/Green Deployment Using AWS CodeDeploy, 2019
4 Serverless Myths to Understand Before Getting Started with AWS, 2019
Best Practices for AWS Lambda Container Reuse, 2019
Building Feature Toggles into Terraform, 2019
Multi-Region Deployments with Terraform, 2018
Applying Minification and Uglification to AWS Lambda Functions, 2018
Serverless Transactions Serve Customers, 2017
Building CelebritySleuth — A Serverless Framework Application, 2017
Moving One of Capital One’s Largest Customer-Facing Apps to AWS, 2017
Deliveroo
Blog Posts
Disney Hotstar
Blog Posts
Videos
Dropbox
Blog Posts
Expedia
Blog Posts
Figma
Blog Posts
Freshworks
Blog Posts
GoDaddy
Blog Posts
Grab
Blog Posts
Videos
Grammarly
Blog Posts
Instacart
Blog Posts
Khanacademy
Blog Posts
Lyft
Blog Posts
Medium
Blog Posts
Netflix
Blog Posts
ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access, 2021
Unbundling Data Science Workflows with Metaflow and AWS Step Functions, 2020
Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure, 2020
How Netflix is able to enrich VPC Flow Logs at Hyper Scale to provide Network Insight, 2020
Byte Down: Making Netflix’s Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective, 2020
How Netflix microservices tackle dataset pub-sub, 2019
Cache warming: Agility for a stateful service, 2018
Netflix Information Security: Preventing Credential Compromise in AWS, 2018
Netflix Cloud Security: Detecting Credential Compromise in AWS, 2018
Auto Scaling Production Services on Titus, 2018
Netflix Billing Migration to AWS, 2016
Netflix Billing Migration to AWS — Part II, 2016
Netflix Billing Migration to AWS — Part III, 2016
Creating Your Own EC2 Spot Market, 2015
Using Presto in our Big Data Platform on AWS, 2014
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Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage, 2011
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5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS, 2010
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Videos
Pinterest
Blog Posts
Postman
Blog Posts
Practo
Blog Posts
Quora
Blog Posts
Reddit
Blog Posts
The Great K8S Migration, 2020
Scribd
Blog Posts
Slack
Blog Posts
Slalom Build
Blog Posts
Crafting AWS Accounts: Applications Accounts, 2020
Container Image Support in AWS Lambda, 2020
The Anatomy of a CDK App, 2020
Solving cold starts on AWS Lambda when using .NET Core, 2020
Crafting Secure AWS Environments: Using an AWS Multi-Account Environment, 2020
Creating Isolated Serverless Environments Using AWS, Terraform, and Jenkins, 2020
AWS Multi-Account Architecture with Terraform, Yeoman, and Jenkins, 2018
How to build a secure by default Kubernetes cluster with a basic CI/CD pipeline on AWS, 2018
Event Sourcing with AWS Lambda, 2018
Serverless: The New Cloud Trend, 2017
Stripe
Blog Posts
Teads
Blog Posts
Trivago
Blog Posts
Udemy
Blog Posts
Yelp!
Blog Posts
Resources
Credits
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