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Field notes from the cloud.
Case studies, deep dives, and engineering practice from the Ordinary Experts team.
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.
New version 2.0.0 of Drupal AWS Marketplace Product
New version 2.0.0 of the OE Drupal AWS Marketplace Product adds AWS Backup and Lifecycle Management support for EFS, upgrades to Ubuntu 20.04, and upgrades default Drupal install to 9.4.5.
Is fear keeping you away from the Cloud?
If you're worried and still unsure about cloud migration, here's some common fears and why you should move past them.
New version 1.3.0 of WordPress Bedrock AWS Marketplace Product
New version 1.3.0 of the WordPress Bedrock AWS Marketplace Product adds AWS Backup and Lifecycle Management support for EFS, parameterizes RDS retention period, and upgrades default WordPress install to 5.8.