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A diagram illustrating the relationship between Amazon EC2 instance families, pricing models, and core components like AMIs and Security Groups.

EC2: Why Developers Still Rent Servers Instead of Buying

Local machines choke on big tasks. Enter Amazon EC2 – the elastic solution for renting scalable computing power on demand. But is it just a rent-a-server play, or something more fundamental?

6 min read 1 week, 5 days ago

A screenshot showing a WhatsApp conversation where commands like 'list vms' are sent and cloud status is returned.

Explainers

WhatsApp Controls AWS? Developers Get a Chatbot Butler

Forget logging into bulky consoles at 2 AM. A new project lets you boss around your AWS servers from WhatsApp. It's less 'serverless' and more 'server-sent-messages'.

5 min read 1 month ago

GitHub Actions workflow deploying Node.js Docker container to AWS EC2 instance

DevOps & Platform Eng

Rocket-Fuel Your Node.js Deploys: GitHub Actions + Docker on AWS

Push code. Watch it deploy. That's the future of Node.js apps on AWS—effortless CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Docker. No more SSH drudgery.

5 min read 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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EC2: Why Developers Still Rent Servers Instead of Buying

WhatsApp Controls AWS? Developers Get a Chatbot Butler

Rocket-Fuel Your Node.js Deploys: GitHub Actions + Docker on AWS