Posted on Sat 13 April 2019 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar, pricing
I have been running the backend of the BibleScholar Alexa App on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service since late 2016. Now that I'm about to start up a couple other personal projects on AWS, I wanted to come back around and discuss what I liked or didn't like about running this …
Posted on Thu 29 June 2017 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar
Yesterday I started getting a lot of emails from Amazon saying that there were issues with the ELB application that runs my Alexa App.
Something fishy with #ELB on @awscloud over the last 24 hours... (no changes to application and load is stable and low) pic.twitter.com …
Posted on Sun 01 January 2017 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar, ssl
In my last article I discussed how I created an Alexa application using AWS ElasticBeanstalk. I left off stuck in the last step of getting the site set up with a SSL certificate from a trusted CA.
In general AWS makes the process of setting up SSL for a site …
Posted on Sat 31 December 2016 in Articles • Tagged with alexa, elasticbeanstalk, aws, biblescholar
When I went to the AWS Re:Invent conference this November, every attendee got an Echo Dot. Since then I've been looking for something useful to do with it. So far I've been just asking Alexa about the weather, traffic, and (very corny) jokes.
Several of my long term side …