This interesting policy question on re:Post about how you can prevent principals outside of an AWS organization from assuming a role in your organization. The asker originally requests an SCP to do this, but SCPs cannot apply to principals
AWS SAM policy templates
A feature I think everyone (including myself!) should use more is AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) policy templates. This approach is a great example of "syntactic sugar" that characterises the AWS SAM approach. As an example, a frequent
AWS IAM Policy Review 1
Why doesn't this policy work with this condition?
Block expensive AWS actions with SCPs
Block expensive and long-running AWS API calls by denying AWS IAM actions.
Get the most out of the AWS documentation
There's a lot of AWS documentation (and more every day!), so use these tips to help get the most out of the official AWS documentation as quickly as possible.
SAM local invoke function logs with Python
Get SAM local invoke functions logging properly with Python
Big Bets Framework
This post is a bit different from my regular programming, so if you're only here for the AWS content, just skip this one. This post is more of a summary of prioritisation and decision making I heard on
AWS SAM HTTP API and CORS
So many acronyms in that title - I promise you they actually make sense! I was doing some local development against an AWS SAM-based API built with an AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs (not to be confused with the REST