I haven't set up a new AWS account via Create Account button for ages. Currently I am setting up new AWS accounts via code with @beesolve/aws-accounts. I want the tool to be usable for users with existing AWS Organizations and also users who are trying to onboard to AWS. That's why I needed to create new Organization myself so I could understand how the tool can help the newcomers.

Managing the AWS Organization shouldn't require you to fight CloudFormation or click through Control Tower. It should be code. That's the reason I've built a tool which lets you do exactly that. The tool is called @beesolve/aws-accounts and it is publicly available. If you manage multiple accounts and you are not satisfied with existing solutions this article might be for you.

When I created @beesolve/lambda-bun-runtime I mostly did it because it seems that the Lambda is very low on the Bun priority list and I wanted to have something which is up to date where I can fix the bugs quickly. I also wanted to provide better DX and tooling built around the CDK.

After using it for a while I realized that the approach of the official Bun's custom layer for Lambda does not align with my mindset.

As always here are some links which I found interesting and I want to share with the world.

In this article I will show you how to implement simple cron job processing using AWS Lambda and EventBridge Scheduler. We'll also look into most common problems you can hit and compare 3 different approaches of how to solve them.

I always thought that CDK is just a fancy CloudFormation template generator. That's why I recently proposed to one of my clients to generate parametrized CloudFormation template for their simple use-case in CDK. Boy was I naive.

I have 100+ tabs open in my mobile browser all the time. I use it as read list eg. whenever I see something interesting which I don't have time to read at that moment, I just open it as new tab and leave as is. Once in a time I get so frustrated by the sheer quantity of the tabs that I want to just want to close my eyes and hit "Close all" button.

Then I remember that this habit of mine once served a real purpose - I've been hoarding articles for the company's newsletter. And then suddenly I don't want to close those but I want to pick few and send them to someone who might find it interesting to read it.

In this article I am going to try to explain how much compute cost at AWS. I will compare three options: EC2, Fargate and Lambda.

Last year AWS announced that you can use Egress-only Internet Gateway to route the traffic out of VPC without need for NAT Gateway. For free. The only gotcha is that it needs to be IPv6 traffic.

This way you can finally stop paying for NAT Gateways - if you communicate through IPv6 of course.

In this article we'll go over 3 simple things you can start doing today which have potential to significantly improve your code base.