Learn how to handle AWS Secrets Manager credential rotation using Lambda functions, AWS SDK, and EventBridge rules for seamless integration and...
From the AWS Samples on Github, we take a look at how to get real-time feedback from Step Functions
The schism between VMware and AWS has only served to accelerate AWS cloud adoption
A tutorial on how to integrate the amazon lex with your slack channel
Discover how Metal Toad's team utilized AWS services and ML to create a simple social network platform at their latest hackathon. Explore the...
Unlock the secrets of AWS Identity and Access Management with this comprehensive guide, covering key concepts, best practices, and tips for...
Explore Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals: Revolutionize cloud monitoring with SLO tracking, rapid troubleshooting, and holistic application...
In this latest event, in the last week of September we embarked on a journey to learn how to work with prompt engineering, unleashing the power of...
'Freedom to Fail' is occasionally touted as a key way to learn, but actual freedom to fail in the workplace is rare, so it's a treat to be able to...
Building Scalable and Cost-Efficient SaaS Products with AWS: A Deep Dive into Metal Toad's Approach
You are up and running in the AWS cloud. You've done multiple PoCs, and you have a number of workloads using S3, EC2 and multiple RDS databases. So...
Discover how AWS Migration Evaluator simplifies cloud migration with detailed assessments, cost projections, and performance optimization, ensuring a...
This is a three part post about our experience using AWS Amplify to develop a food logging app for the Metal Toad hackathon. Here in part one we...
At some point in the last decade, you’ve probably bought a new computer. And at first, it’s great: performance is zippy, but after a few years,...
Querying performance enhancements with Neptune versus DynamoDB with OpenSearch.
Over-the-air (OTA) updates are a critical feature for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Welcome to Metal Toad! So you’ve been hired at this cool tech company cal
My last Session for re:Invent was on optimizing Lambda.
AWS re:Invent is in full swing and with it come new services that people have been asking for.
Amazon S3 is short for Amazon Simple Storage Service, and it is the storage in the cloud.
Explore the different meanings of managed services in the context of AWS. From AWS Managed Services to consulting partners and product offerings,...
AWS EC2 is short for Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud.
AWS Lambda, for those not familiar with it, is an event driven serverless (what is serverless?) platform for compute resources
Learn how to deploy serverless functions using Kubeless on Kubernetes as an open-source alternative to cloud-based FaaS solutions.
Learn how to deploy serverless functions on Linux Mint 19.3 using Kubeless, an open-source alternative to AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions.