Posts Tagged “cloudformation”

• Implementing a Table Create & View Update in Athena using AWS Lambda 01 February 2022
  • amazon-web-services
  • athena
  • aws-lambda
  • cloudformation
  • iam
  • programming
  • python

  I have a DynamoDB table that is automatically exported as JSON to compute some reports. I wanted to automate the table creation process and load steps. Amazon Athena allows querying from raw files stored on S3, which allows reporting when a full database would be too expensive to run because it’s reports are only needed a low percentage of the time or a full database is not required. It’s billed by the amount of data scanned, which makes it relatively cheap for my use case.

• Adding Search to My Static Blog Using AWS Lambda and SQLite 09 July 2021
  • amazon-web-services
  • aws-lambda
  • cloudformation
  • full-text-search
  • jekyll
  • python
  • sqlite
  • tutorial

  I always wanted to have search on my site, but it’s statically hosted, so I can’t have any dynamic content on it. I recently resolved that by creating a little tiny lambda function on AWS that queries a SQLite database hosted on S3. Here I’ll walk you through how I created the back-end for it, and in some later posts I’ll include details on calculating the cost.

• Using a Bash Script to Generate Random Fake Data To Insert Into DynamoDB 30 March 2021
  • amazon-web-services
  • bash
  • cloudformation
  • database
  • dynamodb
  • programming
  • tutorial

  I’ve been studying for my developer associate certification on Amazon Web Services. I’ve been practicing with the various streaming solutions like SQS and Kinesis lately. I’ve wanted to branch into using DynamoDB and capturing changes. To do that I needed to generate a lot of take data.