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One thing that I have always been keen to get from AWS Lambda is configurable environment variables that can be set for each individual Lambda function. One thing I loved about the Serverless framework is that it supports a notion of environment variables, stored in a hidden ‘_meta’ folder and…

Recently we updated our open source project Auto Tag, a Lambda function that listens to CloudTrail to tag your AWS resources with their creator after they are created. When updating, I noticed that a month ago, AWS released a Node v4.3.2 runtime for AWS Lambda. I was super excited! Previously we…

Of all the things I love at GorillaStack, including beer, coffee, workplace banter and of course AWS, there are two in particular that I was able to enjoy the last few nights after work; Open Source and CloudFormation. We love Open Source at GorillaStack and highly prioritize giving back useful code…

We were excited to have the opportunity to share GorillaStack with everyone at Sydney’s first 2 day AWS Summit. The Summit demonstrated the need for AWS Cost Optimization. Talks such as “Business: Cost Optimization at Scale” from Evan Crawford at Amazon Web Services amplified this customer demand…

GorillaStack, the technology that eradicates cloud bill shock, today released ‘Insights’, a powerful new analytics tool that helps businesses quickly identify inefficiencies in their cloud deployment and significantly reduce costs. New analytics tool reduces weeks of manual cloud investigation to…

I recently attended a very insightful AWS Meet Up where Paul Wakeford (a Systems Architect at Australian media company Fairfax Media) shared some great tips to identify costs and reduce your AWS bill. With Paul’s permission I’m sharing, in his own words, his views on a subject very close to our…

At GorillaStack HQ we're excited to announce a few new features that we've released. We've already got a slew tools to help you manage your AWS Costs. You can turn off EC2 instances by schedule using Power Cycle You can also schedule changes to your Auto Scaling groups to meet demand using Power…

We wrote in our open source AWS Lambda blog post on the 27th of February about the then recent support for Lambda functions that access resources within a VPC. Our perspective on that announcement is that serverless computation is becoming more appropriate and accessible for enterprise and can be…