Matt Lewis articles - 32 total
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Core Concepts
Overview Earlier this year I passed the AWS Machine Learning Engineer - Associate exam. I...
Next Gen Developer Experience with Amazon Q Developer
There have been massive advances in the capabilities and features supported by Amazon Q Developer...
Java code transformation using the Amazon Q Developer GitHub Integration
AWS have launched the Amazon Q Developer integration with GitHub. I was keen to try this out, and in...
Amazon Q Developer transform for .NET
Introduction A fantastic use case for AI Coding Assistants is upgrading applications to...
Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection
Introduction I was lucky to get the opportunity to try out the new "Extended Threat...
Accelerating builds with Amazon Q Developer Agent
Background I have been using the Amazon Q Developer Agent for software development for...
Amazon Q Developer Agent for Code Transformation
Background Here in the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the 'technical...
Top tips to pass the AWS AI Practitioner Exam
I sat and passed the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam last week. It’s currently still in beta, but...
Code Transformation with Amazon Q
Introduction An exciting feature of Amazon Q is the concept of agents that autonomously...
Using GenAI to improve developer experience on AWS
Background Today, many developers find themselves working on multiple projects at the same...
Receiving voice input with Amazon Connect
I wrote a blog post last week that looked at two different options for making an outbound voice call...
Outbound Voice Calls on AWS
Background I recently had a requirement to trigger an outbound voice call, and wanted to...
Using Amazon Q to deliver customer value
Background In my role working for an AWS consulting partner, I need to keep up to date...
Generative AI for Kids: PartyRock to the Rescue
Background Generative AI (or GenAI) is the hottest industry buzzword, and shows no sign of...
Deep dive into AWS Block Storage
Background With little background in block storage, I wanted to challenge myself and learn...
Redacting Data in Amazon QLDB
Introduction Amazon QLDB is a fully managed ledger database. A key feature is that each...
How I passed the AWS Security Speciality exam with mostly free content 🥇
Background I recently re-certified the AWS Security Speciality exam. To me, it remains one...
Centralising audit, compliance and incident detection
Introduction This is the third in a series of posts looking at some of the core services,...
Adding AWS SSO and controlling permissions
Introduction This is the second in a series of posts looking at some of the core services,...
Setting up a multi-account AWS environment
AWS strongly recommend splitting different types of workloads as well as your various environments...
Test Drive AWS Lambda Powertools for Typescript
Last week, AWS announced the beta release of AWS Lambda Powertools Typescript. This is a suite of...
Streaming Data to OpenSearch
In previous posts I described how to: Stream data from QLDB to DynamoDB to support single-digit...
Tips to prevent a serverless wreck
Lately I've been involved in reviewing services developed using 'serverless' that had been struggling...
Protecting Data in your QLDB Ledger
Background When Amazon QLDB was first launched, it only supported AWS owned keys to...
Demo fine grained access control in QLDB
When QLDB was first launched, it provided a set of actions for interacting with the control plane API...
Concurrency Control in Amazon QLDB
Background Concurrency control is critical in any system where accuracy and trust in the r...
Securely Access QLDB from a Private Subnet
Background The serverless demo applications I built out previously use AWS Lambda running...
Stream Processing with DynamoDB Streams and QLDB Streams
Many applications today benefit from the ability to capture all changes to an item or document, at th...
Streaming data from Amazon QLDB to Elasticsearch
Background In a previous post I described how to stream data from QLDB to DynamoDB to supp...
Using free tools to optimise a serverless application
Introduction I've recently been building out a serverless application on AWS that interact...