Secure your Serverless project’s endpoints with AWS Certificate Manager
Here at GorillaStack we’ve been using LetsEncrypt to issue SSL certificates for custom domains on AWS’s API Gateway for all our Serverless projects. While we love this service, securing a custom domain...
View ArticleBuilding a Serverless Slack bot using AWS Lambda, cautiously…
When scuba diving, a diver has releases on their equipment such that in cases where no alternatives are available, they can ditch heavy gear and swim for the surface. I liken this to the approach teams...
View ArticleGorillaStack AWS CloudTrail Listener For Slack Goes Public
The GorillaStack team are excited to announce the release of our highly requested AWS CloudTrail Slackbot. What started out as an internal project, designed to make tracking CloudTrail events more...
View ArticleAWS X-Ray General Availability Comes Complete with Lambda Integration
First debuted in preview form at re:Invent last year, X-Ray is set to increase efficiencies that can simplify troubleshooting, speed up development time, and thus ultimately contribute to cost savings...
View ArticleAWS re:Invent 2017 Guide – An Alternative Look
Congratulations – you convinced the boss to let you go to re:Invent in Vegas! You’ve started reading up on all the most useful talks, the breakouts and you’ve probably lined up a bunch of meetings with...
View ArticleAWS EBS Snapshots Cost Allocation And Automation
We wanted to take a quick time out to discuss the new cost allocation functionality for AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots and how GorillaStack complements the service in an intelligent fashion....
View ArticleGorillaStack Wins Startup Specialist Of The Year 2017
Last night at the ARN ICT awards was a real highlight for us – winning Startup Specialist Of The Year 2017. On a side-note, Cameron Inchley and I were discussing an anecdote told by Gary Lineker, the...
View ArticleGorillaStack v2.0 is in Beta
Big news today, we have put our new version GorillaStack into public beta. Version 1 of our product was the founder product, focused on instance cycling and cost savings exclusively. Version 2 of our...
View ArticleCreate EBS Snapshots Action
You have spoken and we have listened. Today we closed the loop on EBS lifecycle management, supplementing on our existing capabilities around cleaning up snapshots, AMIs and deleting detached volumes...
View ArticleRDS Start / Stop Actions
For a while now customers have wanted to know whether we could help them cycle their database instances on and off, much alike how we help them with their EC2 instances. Today with Start/Stop RDS...
View ArticleInvoke Lambda Functions
We love Lambda and we know you do too! So we’re pleased to announce today that we support the invocation of AWS Lambda functions as an action in our rules engine. Now, using any of our trigger types,...
View ArticleBuilding a Serverless Slack bot using AWS Lambda, cautiously…
When scuba diving, a diver has releases on their equipment such that in cases where no alternatives are available, they can ditch heavy gear and swim for the surface. I liken this to the approach teams...
View ArticleGorillaStack AWS CloudTrail Listener For Slack Goes Public
The GorillaStack team are excited to announce the release of our highly requested AWS CloudTrail Slackbot. What started out as an internal project, designed to make tracking CloudTrail events more...
View ArticleAWS X-Ray General Availability Comes Complete with Lambda Integration
First debuted in preview form at re:Invent last year, X-Ray is set to increase efficiencies that can simplify troubleshooting, speed up development time, and thus ultimately contribute to cost savings...
View ArticleAWS EBS Snapshots Cost Allocation And Automation
We wanted to take a quick time out to discuss the new cost allocation functionality for AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots and how GorillaStack complements the service in an intelligent fashion....
View ArticleGorillaStack v2.0 is in Beta
Big news today, we have put our new version GorillaStack into public beta. Version 1 of our product was the founder product, focused on instance cycling and cost savings exclusively. Version 2 of our...
View ArticleCreate EBS Snapshots Action
You have spoken and we have listened. Today we closed the loop on EBS lifecycle management, supplementing on our existing capabilities around cleaning up snapshots, AMIs and deleting detached volumes...
View ArticleRDS Start / Stop Actions
For a while now customers have wanted to know whether we could help them cycle their database instances on and off, much alike how we help them with their EC2 instances. Today with Start/Stop RDS...
View ArticleGorillaStack Wins Startup Specialist Of The Year 2017
Last night at the ARN ICT awards was a real highlight for us – winning Startup Specialist Of The Year 2017. On a side-note, Cameron Inchley and I were discussing an anecdote told by Gary Lineker, the...
View ArticleInvoke Lambda Functions
We love Lambda and we know you do too! So we’re pleased to announce today that we support the invocation of AWS Lambda functions as an action in our rules engine. Now, using any of our trigger types,...
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