Introduction

I have been meaning to play around with AWS Transcribe, AWS' managed service for speech to text, for a while. This week I came across a good excuse. Our marketing department had a few longer meetings and they recorded those meetings in Zoom, the audio conferencing system we use …

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 …

The problem

At Ionic we commonly use network ACLs to restrict access to some services to a list of known IPs. In this specific case, I needed ephemeral servers spun up with Databricks Spark to be able to reach an internal monitoring server.

The problem is that by default in …

When I started working with Amazon's API Gateway service earlier today, this is not the title I expected the article would have.

If you read through documentation and blog articles by Amazon, it sounds like API Gateway is an awesome solution for serverless integrations with S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and even …

The Problem

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 …

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 …

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 …