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February 16, 2022

AWS Activate — A Program That Can Save You More Than $110.000,00

Introduction

AWS Activate is a program that helps start-ups and scale-ups to build their companies. There are two Program Tiers that a start-up can join. The AWS Activate Founders is a basic tier and it gives you $1.000,00 credits to use the AWS services + $350,00 for the AWS Developer Support plan. The other program tier is the AWS Activate Portfolio, this is an extensive tier that gives you $100.000,00 credits to use AWS services and $10.000,00 for the AWS Business Support plan.

At the time of this publication, the discount will cover all the costs for 165 AWS services and AWS Developer/Business Support. There are also the Exclusive Offers that include discounts for third-party software, such as Jira, Bitbucket, Slack, JFrog Artifactory, and others.

April 5, 2021

How to Use AWS IAM Role on AWS EKS PODs

How It Works

It’s possible to attach an IAM role in a Kubernetes POD without using third-party software, such as kube2iam and kiam. This is thanks to the integration between AWS IAM and Kubernetes ServiceAccount, following the approach of IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).

Using an IAM Role in a Kubernetes POD

Benefits

There are quite a few benefits of using IRSA with Kubernetes PODs.

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