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Field notes from the cloud.
Case studies, deep dives, and engineering practice from the Ordinary Experts team.
Using Amazon Q Developer to Write CloudFormation
Amazon Q Developer is a useful pair-programmer for CloudFormation, but it has rough edges around recent API changes and IAM scoping. Here's how we've been integrating it into our IaC workflow.
Case Study: Firstech - Amazon Aurora Migration
Firstech is an award-winning maker of automotive electronics. As part of their marketing presence, Firstech hosted a collection of 11 microsites for marketing, customer management and support on Heroku. Ordinary Experts migrated these applications to AWS on Elastic Container Service using AWS Copilot. This solution consolidated the microsite’s infrastructure management and billing with Firstech’s primary product application on AWS, reduced hosting costs, ensured containerization best practices and expedited migration efforts.
New CONSUL DEMOCRACY AWS Marketplace Product
Ordinary Experts has launched CONSUL DEMOCRACY on AWS Marketplace: a seamless CloudFormation template and custom AMI, enabling easy deployment of production-ready CONSUL DEMOCRACY sites. Join the revolution now, with scalability, security, and cost-optimization on AWS.
New Discourse AWS Marketplace Product
Ordinary Experts has launched Discourse on AWS Marketplace: a seamless CloudFormation template and custom AMI, enabling easy deployment of production-ready Discourse sites for unparalleled visual storytelling experiences. Join the revolution now, with scalability, security, and cost-optimization on AWS.
Major Updates to WordPress Pattern
Ordinary Experts has launched a major update to its WordPress pattern, removing Bedrock to facilitate a more WordPress friendly developer workflow.
AWS Summit Los Angeles
We attended the AWS Summit Los Angeles and learned about the AI offerings that AWS has developed, like Q and Bedrock. AI seems poised to grow tremenously over the next years, and AWS is leveraging its strong security foundations to enable companies to take advantage of AI in a secure way.
New Zulip AWS Marketplace Product
Ordinary Experts has launched a new AWS Marketplace product specifically designed for Zulip, an open-source team chat solution.
New PeerTube AWS Marketplace Product
Ordinary Experts has launched a new AWS Marketplace product specifically designed for PeerTube, featuring decentralized video hosting, with enhanced transcoding through FFMPEG 6 integration and support for AWS Graviton instances.
New Pixelfed AWS Marketplace Product
Ordinary Experts has launched Pixelfed on AWS Marketplace: a seamless CloudFormation template and custom AMI, enabling easy deployment of production-ready Pixelfed sites for unparalleled visual storytelling experiences. Join the revolution now, with scalability, security, and cost-optimization on AWS.
New release of Mastodon AWS Marketplace Product
Ordinary Experts has released a new AWS Marketplace Product - a production-ready Mastodon setup. Quickly and easily set up your own Mastodon instance on the AWS cloud.