Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I have a couple of services I own that run in EC2 that, sadly, still lack any log aggregation. In-house we have our own system for this, that technically can also run in EC2 but for a variety of reasons I consider it overkill for my use case in EC2. Basically, the solution I am after is to do the minimum amount of work to see these logs aggregated to an S3 bucket, making them available for…
The background to this story is that I spent the bulk of one week recently working on getting a prototype service deployed with AWS CloudFormation, and the experience was still reasonably painful. My team has other services deployed with CloudFormation, which is working perfectly fine (now) but I had hoped there would be some improvements available since the last time we went through the process.