Deploying to AWS Lambda: ZIP Files vs. Containers Explained
 
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AWS Lambda has revolutionized serverless computing by abstracting away server management and offering scalable execution environments for your code. When deploying functions to Lambda, you have two primary packaging formats: ZIP archives and container images. Each has its own use cases, benefits, and trade-offs.
This podcast will explain the differences between ZIP-based and container-based Lambda deployments, help you understand when to use each, and provide insights to optimize your serverless deployment strategy.

How to Use AWS WAF with Reactive Infrastructure for Cost-Effective Threat Blocking
 
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Organizations need innovative, scalable, and budget-friendly security mechanisms as cyber threats increase in frequency and sophistication. AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides robust protections against common attack vectors like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and DDoS. You can achieve enhanced security and significant cost savings when integrated with reactive infrastructure architectures that dynamically adapt to threats.
This podcast pairs AWS WAF with reactive infrastructure to build a responsive, efficient, affordable threat-blocking solution.

Authorization Demystified: Best Practice #3 for Securing REST APIs with API Gateway
 
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Securing REST APIs is foundational in building modern, scalable, and secure applications. When paired with strong authorization practices, Amazon API Gateway becomes a robust tool for protecting your backend services from unauthorized access. In this podcast, we’ll demystify Best Practice #3: Implementing Authorization and explore how to effectively apply it using API Gateway to secure your REST APIs.

AWS Anti-Patterns: Mistakes That Could Break Your Cloud Project
 
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Cloud computing offers unparalleled agility, scalability, and innovation—but only if used correctly. AWS provides a robust ecosystem, but misuse or neglect of best practices can lead to cost overruns, security breaches, or architectural nightmares. Below are common AWS anti-patterns that could derail your project and how to avoid them.

Advanced AWS Networking: Inter-Regional Routing with Private NATs and Transit Gateway
 
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As organizations grow and adapt multi-region cloud strategies, enabling secure and efficient inter-regional communication becomes essential. To facilitate this, AWS provides powerful networking components like Transit Gateway and Private NAT Gateway. This podcast will explore how to set up inter-regional routing using these services to achieve robust, scalable, and secure connectivity between VPCs across AWS regions.

Automating Security in AWS Pipelines with Shift Left Methodology
 
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In today's fast-paced DevOps environments, integrating security earlier in the development lifecycle is not a luxury—it’s a necessity. The traditional approach of treating security as a final checkpoint before deployment is increasingly being replaced by the Shift Left methodology, which embeds security controls and validations at the earliest stages of the development pipeline. This shift is especially critical in cloud-native environments like AWS, where speed, automation, and scale are paramount.
This podcast explores how organizations can automate security in AWS pipelines using Shift Left principles, ensuring robust protection without compromising agility.

MSP’s Guide to AWS Cost Optimization for Enterprise Clients
 
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As enterprises scale their cloud infrastructure, managing and optimizing AWS costs becomes critical. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are vital in helping organizations identify inefficiencies, implement savings strategies, and build a cost-aware cloud culture. This podcast outlines actionable techniques MSPs can adopt to drive cost optimization for enterprise clients.

AWS Cross-Zone Load Balancing: What It Is and How It Works
 
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As cloud-native applications scale across multiple Availability Zones (AZs), efficient traffic distribution becomes critical for performance and resilience. AWS Cross-Zone Load Balancing plays a vital role in achieving this balance, especially for applications deployed across different AZs in a region. In this podcast, we will explore cross-zone load balancing, how it works, its benefits, limitations, and when you should use it.

Ground-Up Cloud Automation: Building with Terraform
 
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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, automating cloud infrastructure is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Whether you're a startup scaling quickly or an enterprise migrating to the cloud, manual provisioning is error-prone and inefficient. This is where Terraform, a powerful open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool from HashiCorp, becomes a game-changer. This podcast walks you through building cloud automation from the ground up using Terraform, enabling repeatable, secure, and scalable cloud deployments.

Simplifying AWS Permissions for EKS: Comparing Pod Identity and IRSA
 
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a powerful tool for orchestrating containerized applications in the cloud, but securely granting IAM permissions to pods has long been a nuanced challenge. Historically, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) has been the go-to method, but AWS recently introduced EKS Pod Identity as a simplified alternative.
This podcast dives into the architecture, pros and cons, and real-world use cases of both approaches to help you choose the right one for your environment.