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AWS Application Composer

A couple of weeks before, in AWS re:invent, Amazon made a lot of innovative announcements, and one of the announcements was the AWS Application Composer service, which allows a user to drag and drop elements to the Canvas and quickly design and deploy serverless applications.   

Introduction

Application Composer service is in the preview phase as this is being written. It allows you to drag and drop a list of resources to a canvas, make connections between them and provide the required configuration. It allows you to design a workflow on the front end, and in the background, it generates the necessary code and template using the Serverless Architecture Model (SAM). SAM CLI is the tool you can use to quickly deploy this template to the AWS environment.

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Microservices on AWS: Part 2 [Video]

Introduction 

In this AWSome Pipeline tutorial, I will deploy a Spring Boot microservice to AWS Cloud using the different CI/CD tools provided by AWS. We will be creating different IAM roles needed and then set up the AWS pipeline to continuously deliver software changes to our EC2 instances. I will walk you through different steps involved from uploading your code to GitHub, then check out that using AWS code stage, building using AWS Code Build, and then deploying the generated artifact to your targeted auto-scaling group using AWS Code Deploy. We will be creating a new version of the application and then demo that how the AWS pipeline can deploy those changes to our environment seamlessly. 

Source code can be downloaded from the GitHub repository.

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Building an Angular Bot With AWS Lex

Introduction 

In this article, I will explain the Amazon Lex service and how you can use it to develop automated bots for your application. Using Lex, it is to develop automated support in your application to collect information from the user using text or voice and address the user’s concerns. I will create a sample application using Angular, and then we will integrate it to Amazon Lex to create an appointment.

Prerequisites 

This article assumes that you have a basic understanding of web application development. This article doesn’t require you to have advanced skills using Angular or Amazon Web Services, but having familiarity with these technologies will help you get the most out of this. Here is a list of tools technologies I have used in this article.

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User Authentication With Amazon Cognito

Introduction

In this article, I will walk you through that what is Amazon Cognito service and how you can use this for your user management, authentication, and authorization. I will create a simple web application using AngularJS with login/sign-up functionality, and I will showcase how easy it is to make it full fledge application with all user management functions handled using Amazon Cognito.

Prerequisites

This article assumes that you have a basic understanding of web application development. This article doesn’t require you to have advanced skills in using Angular or AWS, but having familiarity with these technologies will help you to get most out of this. Here is a list of tools technologies I have used in this article.