Learn all you need to know about getting a VPS on AWS and get your first 3 months or 1 year free! Does AWS offer VPS? First lets answer this question, does AWS offer VPS? Yes! AWS does offer VPS via a service called Lightsail. Amazon Lightsail is a managed VPS service which provides you with an easy interface to deploy a cheap VPS at the click of a button. For more info on pricing see my other post here....
What is the AWS VPS hosting price? If you are coming to AWS from traditional VPS Server hosting you might be a bit confused since there is no service called VPS. Amazon Lightsail and EC2 are the VPS like services, both of these will give you a private virtual machine you own. EC2 is more basic, Lightsail is much easier to use, providing lots of software like Minecraft and WordPress you can launch with the click of a button....
Easily fix the AWS Cognito error message: Invalid identity pool configuration. Check assigned IAM roles for this pool. The Error {"__type":"InvalidIdentityPoolConfigurationException","message":"Invalid identity pool configuration. Check assigned IAM roles for this pool."} Fixes for Invalid identity pool configuration. Check assigned IAM roles for this pool. This error is caused by IAM not being setup to trust the Cognito Identity pool. First Fix: Add the Identity Pool to IAM Trust Relationships Your IAM Role’s trust relationship should look something like the example one below, provided by AWS....
Here we will go over how to find hosted zone id route53. What is a Hosted Zone? Route53 is AWS’ service for managing DNS. Hosted Zones are the base layer of Route53. Typically, each hosted zone corresponds to a domain name, or possibly a sub domain. The hosted zone is the container for DNS records, this is where you will configure how the world interacts with your domain, such as pointing it to an IP address with an A record....
Quickly diagnose and fix the botocore.exceptions.noregionerror: you must specify a region error. The fix is you must specify a region. The quickest fix is to open your ~/.aws/config and add region=us-east-1 to the [default] profile. There are more details and several other ways to specify a region at the bottom of this article in the How To Fix section. Here is how your config file should look. This will resolve botocore....
If you’ve worked on even one Lambda function then you know that development without local testing can be slow. In this article we will go over using AWS SAM to startup an API on port 3000 with API Gateway and Lambda locally inside of a docker container nested inside another Docker container running AWS SAM for portability, ease of use, and easier integration into larger products / end-to-end suites. If this sounds useful to you keep on reading....