Maintain Resource Compliance with AWS CloudFormation Hooks

This post discusses AWS CloudFormation Hooks, a feature allowing code to run before creating, updating, or deleting resources in AWS. It enforces business rules, enhancing compliance, and cost efficiency. Basic terminologies include Hooks, Hook Targets, Target Invocation Points, Target Actions, and Hook Handlers. The next post will provide a working example.

Data Lakes vs Data Warehouses: When to Choose What?

Data lakes store raw, unprocessed data for flexible exploration, real-time analysis, and to disburden data warehousing. Data warehouses organize structured data for business reports, quick access to specific information, and analyzing historical trends. Choosing between them depends on data types, goals, budget, and skills, as there is no one-size-fits-all solution in data storage.

Create AWS Athena View Using AWS CDK

Athena Views!Sounds like SQL Views, correct? To some extent they are, means athena view is also a logical table and it does not hold any physical data.Good news is that manually, it is created similarly as SQL view, but what if you need to create it programmatically? In today's era most of the companies follow … Continue reading Create AWS Athena View Using AWS CDK

Trigger AWS Lambda with AWS SNS using Python

Applications rely on the advantages of serverless technologies and message delivery is a critical part of that. In distributed applications reliable messaging plays a key role as this allow them to communicate with each other to improve their availability and scalability. You must already know the two methods of messaging- Synchronous - Sender expects an … Continue reading Trigger AWS Lambda with AWS SNS using Python