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First steps with AWS Bedrock
AI is taking over the world. At Bright Inventions, we’ve already helped several clients with generative AI. In this blog post, we’ll see how to use aws-cdk to create a simple API that responds to prompts. Request Bedrock model access If you haven’t used Bedrock before, the first step is to request model access. You can…
ReadHTTPs on CloudFront using Certificate Manager and aws-cdk
The static website deployed with aws-cdk to CloudFront post shows how to deploy static content with aws-cdk. We still miss a custom domain configuration for our website though. The following example shows how to: setup a custom domain name for a CloudFront distribution enable https using AWS issued trusted certificate…
ReadDeploy fast, static website to AWS like a pro
In this post we’ll see how to create and deploy a static website using IaC using the following technologies: aws-cdk AWS CloudFormation AWS Lambda AWS S3 Have a static website For the sake of simplicity we’ll use Create React App in a directory called : Create the static website content inside directory with: Add aws…
ReadHow to convert an express app to AWS Lambda?
In this post we will see how to convert an existing express application to AWS Lambda. This can help reduce AWS bill even by an order of magnitude. We will also use cloudform to describe the CloudFormation stack. An express app For our example to be complete we need an express application. Let’s use a single file to…
ReadHow to deploy Lambda function with CloudFormation?
Serverless deployments are popular these days. With a minimal cost you can have your own code wait and respond to various events. AWS Lambda, Azure Functions are just 2 examples of serverless offering from the biggest cloud providers. For a long time I had thought about them only in the context of ad-hoc setups not…
ReadHow to call a load balanced ECS service?
A service running ECS can call plethora of AWS APIs. It can read messages from queues, publish messages to SNS topics, query a database. These are all valid ways to communicate with the service. However, often the most appropriate way is to call the service by an HTTP API. In this post I’ll describe how to configure an…
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