Cloud & AWS

How we design, run and pay for infrastructure on AWS: serverless architectures, CloudFront and networking, high availability, and what we take away from the events worth going to.

4th December 20242 min read

AWS re:Invent 2024 breakout sessions

Didn't make re:Invent this year? Catch up on the announcements and sessions on the AWS Events YouTube channel. Here are the playlists to get you started.

Amazon Aurora DSQL in the AWS console service search

3rd December 20244 min read

Amazon Aurora DSQL: What might it mean for web applications?

Amazon Aurora DSQL debuts with active-active global availability, distributed scalability and PostgreSQL compatibility. What it could mean for web applications.

3rd May 20246 min read

AWS Summit London 2024

We were thrilled to book our place at the AWS Summit London again this year. With a huge focus on GenAI, the event was bigger than ever in 2024 - but was it better?

25th April 20232 min read

Amazon S3 best practice security changes for new buckets

In April 2023 Amazon S3 will change the default security configuration for all new S3 buckets, making buckets private by default across all creation mechanisms

AWS CTO Werner Vogels delivering his keynote speach at re:Invent 2022 where he expressed his view that event-driven architectures increase developer speed, and help de-couple logic.

8th December 20225 min read

Event-driven serverless architectures

At Si Novi we specialise in building and designing serverless architectures. We explain the benefits of serverless computing, and introduce some key components of the serverless computing model, such as AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and event-driven architecture.

Amazon EC2 Launch Configurations will Deprecate support for new Instances

30th November 20223 min read

Amazon EC2 Launch Configurations deprecation

How to migrate to Launch Templates Amazon EC2 Launch Configurations will deprecate support for new instances from December 2022

16th August 20223 min read

AWS withdrawing Lambda support for Node.js 12

Node.js 12 is being withdrawn as a supported runtime for AWS Lambda functions, so any Lambda functions currently using this runtime will need to be updated

2nd July 20227 min read

AWS Summit London 2022

With the AWS Summit London restored following a 2-year COVID-19 hiatus, we were thrilled to attend the summit at ExCel London in April 2022.

22nd September 20213 min read

Agile and iterative software development: Our approach

We incorporate agile methodologies into our software development work and we've seen how agile processes can de-risk development and produce better results.

2nd June 20213 min read

AWS Lambda end of support for Node.js 10

AWS are withdrawing support for Node.js 10 in Lambda functions from 30th July 2021, so updating Lambda functions to a new Node.js runtime will be critical.