Goodbye AWS Lambda Snapshots, Hello AWS Data Lifecyle Manager?

  Posted on January 13, 2019  |  3 minutes  |  489 words  |  James Chen
If you have been keeping up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) news, you should know that AWS released a new feature called Data Lifecyle Manager in 2018 to automate your snapshots based on a lifecycle policy. Previously automated snapshots could do taken through Cloudwatch Events to call the CreateSnapshot API. However this had a major downside that EBS volume tags are not copied over. Therefore, many companies opted to create their Lambda to be called through Cloudwatch Events. [Read More]
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Reflections 2019

  Posted on January 2, 2019  |  3 minutes  |  452 words  |  James Chen
During 2018, I changed jobs from more of a Technical Manager role to a DevOps Engineer working on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I had always wanted to change to a career focusing on the cloud, and I’m so joyful I could fulfill it mid-2018. I learned so much about DevOps in this past 6 months. Below are just some of the things I’ve discovered. What I Have Discovered Although DevOps focuses on “Dev”, there is still a lot of “Ops” tasks. [Read More]