<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1080" src="https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/catalog-blog.png" alt="" class="wp-image-278" srcset="https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/catalog-blog.png 1920w, https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/catalog-blog-768x432.png 768w, https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/catalog-blog-1536x864.png 1536w, https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/catalog-blog-1568x882.png 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /></figure>



I am excited to announce that the Atomized Catalog is now available to everyone.



<h2>What is the catalog?</h2>



The catalog is a list of templates that you can deploy today through the Atomized Deploy product.



When you create a new account, our platform will first display the services you can deploy from our catalog. These templates are based on common uses cases such as full-stack applications and public-facing containers. Once you select what service you want to deploy, you will need to answer three easy sections around the details of your service and the deployment style (if applicable). Then you&#8217;ll see a summary of what resources will be created and how much it&#8217;ll cost to run on AWS.



<h2>What is the future of the catalog?</h2>



For developers: Our end goal is to provide one-click deployment of your favorite tools and stacks with your favorite cloud provider. We are partnering with various vendors who are both open and closed sourced and streamlining the process for deployment. Gone will be the days of reading really long readme files to get started. Press the button, and magic happens.



For vendors: Our end goal is to provide vendors with more data and metrics around their users and product. Depending on the setup, we could let you know precisely how many users you have, the installation status, and potential issues. Our goal is to make self-hosted deployments as easy as possible.



<h2>How do I add my product to the catalog?</h2>



Simple &#8211; just reach out to us to schedule a call to walk you through the process. There will be a self-service model with an approval process in the near future.



We would love to chat if you have tools/stacks that you need to deploy inside your customers&#8217; environments.



<h2>Summary</h2>



The catalog is the foundation for the Atomized platform. We&#8217;re excited about the future it brings to our customers and vendors. Take a look through <a href="http://atomizedhq.com/catalog">the catalog</a> today.

Introducing Atomized Catalog

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Welcome to our new series called &#8220;AWS Basics&#8221;! Our purpose with this series is to go through the foundational services of AWS and to help you get started as quickly as possible.



If you just bought a domain name and would like to use it to host your static site, this tutorial will help you get started fast on AWS!



<h3>What is Route 53?</h3>



Route 53 is a service by AWS that allows customers to set up and host their DNS zones and records. If you&#8217;re not familiar with how DNS works, we highly recommend <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-dns/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">checking out this guide</a>.



The benefit of using Route 53 over a default service such as one provided by your domain registrar is that Route 53 is intertwined with other AWS services. It removes extra friction and allows you to add records (such as for DNS validation) easily.



<h3>What is ACM?</h3>



AWS Certificate Manager (referred to as ACM) is a service that allows you to create and manage certificates quickly. If you&#8217;re not familiar with how certificates work, we highly recommend <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-an-ssl-certificate/">checking out this guide</a>.



The benefit of using ACM is primarily how easy it is to get started and manage certificates, especially around renewal.



<h3>How much does it cost?</h3>



Route 53 zones are cheap &#8211; $0.50 per hosted zone/month for the first 25 hosted zones and then $0.10 per zone afterward.



ACM Certs that are public are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application.



<h3>How to create a Route 53 Zone</h3>



1.&nbsp;<a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Go to AWS Management Console</a>



2. Expand All Services and Click on Route 53



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_f4d97bc0-f034-4d47-8762-d2b2944c704f?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.1396&amp;fp-y=0.6973&amp;fp-z=3.0536&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Expand All Services and Click on Route 53">



3. Alternatively, Type &#8220;Route 53&#8221; in the search bar above



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_48e5717d-0e41-4e67-a91f-a00057c7346d?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.2122&amp;fp-y=0.0170&amp;fp-z=1.7845&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Alternatively, Type &quot;Route 53&quot; in the search bar above">



4. Click on Route 53



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_bd8773ad-2fc6-47c6-bfb8-e38d84461f52?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.2478&amp;fp-y=0.1463&amp;fp-z=2.9790&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Route 53">



5. Click on Hosted zones



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_547ebfa8-d399-483e-985a-85ee9cf5dcac?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.0359&amp;fp-y=0.1407&amp;fp-z=2.9327&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Hosted zones">



6. Click on Create hosted zone



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_5c9ef365-2957-4d34-b7b7-854ff4e8d1c5?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.9103&amp;fp-y=0.1097&amp;fp-z=3.0721&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Create hosted zone">



7. Type &#8220;example.com&#8221;



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_bf1fdfd2-2c68-48ea-8f82-d8d95c7cd3f4?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.1844&amp;fp-y=0.2755&amp;fp-z=1.7470&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Type &quot;example.com&quot;">



8. Click on Create hosted zone



<img width="600" src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_0d3c3cd7-d52c-4cfb-9cee-f7874f007290?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.3828&amp;fp-y=0.7870&amp;fp-z=2.7572&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" alt="Click on Create hosted zone">



Once you have created the Route 53 Zone, you must point your domain registrar to the new NS records created. Login to your domain registrar and replace the NS records. Here is a guide if you bought your domain from <a href="https://www.godaddy.com/help/edit-an-ns-record-19213" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">GoDaddy</a>, <a href="https://www.name.com/support/articles/205934547-Changing-nameservers-for-DNS-management" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.name.com/support/articles/205934547-Changing-nameservers-for-DNS-management">Name.com</a>, or <a href="https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3290309?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Google Domains</a>.



If you have any questions or need assistance with this step, please feel free to reach out.



Once you have updated your records with your domain registrar, it will take several hours to propagate through the internet and take effect. Sometimes, it could take up to 72 hours. One easy way to tell is by running a command like dig.



<pre class="wp-block-preformatted">dig +short NS example.com</pre>



If the response matches your newly updated records that were created in the Route 53 zone, you’re ready for the next step.



<h3>How to create a certificate with ACM</h3>



1.&nbsp;<a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Go to AWS Management Console</a>



2. Type &#8220;ACM&#8221;



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_4ccebd9f-1b3f-4008-9162-60062d2258ad?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.2122&amp;fp-y=0.0170&amp;fp-z=1.7845&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Type &quot;ACM&quot;">



3. Click on Certificate Manager



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_496b350f-a68c-4c71-ad66-611a0c7618eb?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.2688&amp;fp-y=0.1463&amp;fp-z=2.6481&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Certificate Manager">



4. Click on List certificates



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_49dcb235-a0d6-49b8-acdf-9c8c54a9a5a3?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.0386&amp;fp-y=0.1237&amp;fp-z=2.8718&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on List certificates">



5. Click on Request



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_5aa18fc0-4d5c-443e-b951-22c49ca295c5?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.9286&amp;fp-y=0.1037&amp;fp-z=3.0721&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Request">



6. Type the main domain you want to create an certificate for. In my example, I&#8217;m using &#8220;example.superatomized.com&#8221;.



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_1771b48f-f00c-46bc-89bb-a62ea3b036ff?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.3508&amp;fp-y=0.2279&amp;fp-z=1.4844&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Type &quot;example.superatomized.com&quot;">



Option but highly recommended &#8211; Click on Add another name to this certificate. We recommend using this for wildcard certificates or alternative domain names (such as subdomains).



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_833565f4-c651-4ec4-ade6-f1996ffc9eeb?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.2336&amp;fp-y=0.2700&amp;fp-z=2.3861&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Add another name to this certificate">



7. Click on Request



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_988fb748-5b22-4764-aac7-1c06b0c68fa2?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.6519&amp;fp-y=0.8108&amp;fp-z=3.0671&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Request">



10. On the next page, you’ll see a page that lets you know your certificate has been requested. All the statuses should show as “Pending Validation”. Click on your newly created certificate ID.



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_f9786114-959a-4846-adb2-5fdca1e4b696?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.2336&amp;fp-y=0.2266&amp;fp-z=2.5822&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on 9769f302-94ba-4682-ad57-bf38107b10fd">



11. Click on Create records in Route 53



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_4fed068b-76e5-4871-90d6-3fcbce6d22e2?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.8206&amp;fp-y=0.3941&amp;fp-z=3.1801&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Create records in Route 53">



12. Click on Create records



<img src="https://images.tango.us/public/screenshot_553e69fa-0b45-4c3d-83f3-7b2291945d8f?crop=focalpoint&amp;fit=crop&amp;fp-x=0.6413&amp;fp-y=0.4307&amp;fp-z=2.8798&amp;w=1200&amp;ar=2074%3A1176" width="600" alt="Click on Create records">



That&#8217;s it! You’ll see a confirmation message, letting you know that the certificate is being validated and could take up to 30 minutes.



Note: Until the status changes to “Issued” your certificate will not be usable with the services in AWS.



If you have any questions or need assistance with this step, please feel free to reach out.



<h3>Summary</h3>



You have now created a Route 53 Zone and set up your first certificate! You can use it now with various AWS integrated services such as Amazon CloudFront and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).



Interested in learning more about how Atomized can help make deploying to AWS easier? Reach out to us using the chat bubble in the bottom right-hand corner!

Adding Route 53 Hosted Zones and Creating ACM Certificates

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I wake up and work on <a href="https://atomizedhq.com">Atomized</a> every day because it&#8217;s personal to me. It all comes down to time. Time is the only currency that you can&#8217;t ever get back. You can always make more money and acquire more stuff, but at the end of the day, time is something you&#8217;re never getting back.



It&#8217;s insane how much time gets burned on the boilerplate work that every developer goes through &#8211; especially when trying to use AWS. It&#8217;s insane how much time we waste to learn tools that go obsolete in some years.



The scope of the responsibilities for developers is increasing every year. In the past, you&#8217;d only need to write code and then throw it over to the ops teams to figure out how to run and scale it. Nowadays, developers are expected to not only write great code, but also to set up, run it, scale it, and make sure there is no downtime between releases.



Due to software developers&#8217; role evolving, developers are spending over 40% of their time figuring out how to run and manage their code.



On the flip side, there is an insane amount of tools and fatigue that exists. Existing cloud providers like AWS are outstanding in the amount of power they provide but, unfortunately, are becoming more and more complex. In 2021, there are over 200+ services that AWS provides. The picture is similar across other cloud providers like Azure and GCP.



This forces most developers (especially those building startups) to pick between writing great code and having excellent infrastructure. But don&#8217;t just take our word for it, here are some quotes from developers that we collected around discussions about using AWS and tools like Kubernetes:



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">&#8220;We found infrastructure the most annoying part. It takes too long, is too expensive, and most importantly, it stopped us from actually building. We would spend weeks to months creating infrastructure and even longer maintaining it. You always have to choose between your product development speed and an affordable cloud setup.&#8221;</blockquote>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">&#8220;You can spend a lot of effort to set up the workflow and processes required to build, deploy, and monitor your project. It gets worse when your company has hundreds, if not thousands, of projects to maintain. With new projects constantly starting up, the entire software development process becomes impossibly complex to manage.&#8221;</blockquote>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">&#8220;Two things that aren&#8217;t changing are (1) customers are always going to want simpler ways to interact with their cloud infrastructure and (2) they&#8217;re always going to want tools to understand where their cloud costs are coming from to make better business decisions.&#8221;</blockquote>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">&#8220;I do a lot of ops professionally. Unless you have a specific reason, I say it&#8217;s best to avoid complicated tooling until later. k8s, ci, etc are all really useful and solve a lot of hard problems, but god are they a bitch to set up and then monitor, fix when something weird happens, secure from nasty people outside, patch when some update becomes necessary, resist the urge to &#8220;improve&#8221;, etc. This doesn&#8217;t include the time it takes to work these tools into your project, like k8s for example really requires you grok its model of how stuff it runs is supposed to look. There&#8217;s a reason entire companies exist that simply offer managed versions of these services!&#8221;</blockquote>



So understanding this problem &#8211; <a href="https://atomizedhq.com">Atomized</a> sets up the perfect middle ground &#8211; giving you the Heroku-like experience and setting developers on a solid foundation without wasting precious time.



I&#8217;m excited for the future our team is building. We invite you to come join us on our mission.

Why we’re building Atomized

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Today, we&#8217;re excited to announce Atomized&#8217;s general availability &#8211; our official version 1.0!



<h2>Brief History Recap</h2>



Every startup &#8211; until you hit proper product-market fit &#8211; can be changed at any moment. This is true for Atomized as well.



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1280" src="https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_8676.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-255" srcset="https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_8676.jpg 1920w, https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_8676-768x512.jpg 768w, https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_8676-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://wp.atomizedhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG_8676-1568x1045.jpg 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" /><figcaption>Team at work</figcaption></figure>



In January 2021, we decided to evolve our original vision from compliance automation to build a platform-as-a-service focused on enabling developers. In four months, we built and launched our MVP / Proof of Concept to the world. We had a successful product launch but quickly realized that a lot of work needed to be done before comfortable saying that our platform was &#8220;production-grade.&#8221;



In July 2021, we decided to close registration and onboarding on our platform and spent the summer rebuilding our engine and product. We signed our first paying customer in July and quickly started to rebuild everything.



In late August 2021, we re-launched in stealth to several handpicked customers on the waitlist. We learned a lot from the feedback and continued to build out the rest of the remaining features.



Taking all that we learned, we refined the platform, made the product easier to sign-up and use. We&#8217;re happy to announce our true milestone &#8211; our version 1.0.



<h2>What is Atomized Deploy?</h2>



We make cloud + code integration very easy, enabling developers to build faster without needing to be a cloud expert. Launch to production in minutes, not months.



<h3>How it works:</h3>



<ol><li>Connect &#8211; We&#8217;ll help you easily connect your Github and AWS accounts to the Atomized platform.</li><li>Select &#8211; Select a service that you want to deploy and answer a few questions.</li><li>Deploy &#8211; We&#8217;ll set up your CD pipeline, give you a cost estimation, and once you&#8217;re ready, deploy your infrastructure!</li></ol>



Here&#8217;s a quick demo of me deploying a container on AWS:



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</div></figure>



We have over 15 different blueprints available to launch on AWS, including:



<ul><li>Containers</li><li>Databases</li><li>Serverless functions</li><li>Redis</li><li>Static Sites</li></ul>



<h2>Why we&#8217;re building Atomized</h2>



Developers want to move at their own pace and be autonomous. DevOps / Platform Engineers are often the bottleneck and would prefer to enable developers to operate safely.



Developers spend over 40% of their time figuring how to run their code instead of writing great code.



Cloud providers like AWS are amazing but are becoming more and more complex. In 2021, there are over 200+ services that AWS provides. The picture is similar across other cloud providers like Azure and GCP.



Most SaaS startups follow a similar journey:



<ul><li>Build MVP quickly on easy to use platforms like Heroku or with no-code tools like Bubble</li><li>Post-launch – immediately start building their V1 and realize the limitations around performance, pricing, control/transparency with these platforms, forced to migrate to cloud providers like AWS/GCP.</li><li>Quickly realize that learning and working with AWS/GCP ends up eating a lot of time and if done incorrectly, could have devastating security and cost issues. Most importantly, it stops devs from writing code and shipping features.</li><li>Companies realize that they need to hire a dedicated platform/DevOps engineer. Great platform/DevOps engineers are very expensive ($100k+/year).</li></ul>



This is where Atomized comes in. We&#8217;re on a mission to enable developers to focus on what&#8217;s truly important &#8211; writing great code. Our platform will handle the rest for you without forcing you to hire a dedicated DevOps Engineer.



<h2>What our customers are saying</h2>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">Atomized made deploying the proper cloud infrastructure for our software solution effortless. The software platform allows me to quickly monitor and make changes to our infrastructure which will be very useful when scaling for customer demand. Thanks to Atomized we can focus on developing our core product because our infrastructure needs are taken care of!</blockquote>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">Atomized has been a godsend. The team has done an incredible job in helping us set up. We’re in the process of migrating our infrastructure to their platform, Nik and the rest of the team have been super helpful in getting things up and running. Provided they are in early stages, I am very excited to see how they progress.</blockquote>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">Working with Atomized and their team is a great experience. They bring speed, expertise and passion with their solutions.</blockquote>



<h2>Our Offer</h2>



Atomized is free to get started with and grows with your business. <a href="https://app.atomizedhq.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Get started today for free</a> and see how fast you can deploy your stack with Atomized!



If you&#8217;re in the process of migrating from Heroku to AWS or just starting in AWS and need help, <a href="hello@atomizedhq.com">ple</a><a href="mailto:hello@atomizedhq.com">ase reach out!</a>



If you&#8217;re launching an open source solution and want to provide a simple, one-click deployment to AWS for your users, we&#8217;d love to put your solution on our marketplace.



If we don&#8217;t have the blueprint you need setup, we will make it happen as fast as possible!

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