Rowan Udell

AWS, Serverless, Code, and Security

Serverless AWS Twitter List

Got Twitter? Want serverless? Here are my favourite accounts - in no particular order - to keep up to date with the good serverless news and content out there. AWS Obviously the AWS staff and accounts are a good source

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Understand your Lambda Event Retries

Understanding the differences between the various event types and their retries is important, because it will change how you design and code your application. If you're developing a serverless application in Lambda, you will have to deal with

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Secure your CloudFront Distributions

UPDATE: AWS announced over the weekend [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/enhanced-domain-protections-for-amazon-cloudfront-requests/] that they're enhancing protections against this kind of scenario. A few weeks ago a security researcher shared [https://disloops.com/cloudfront-hijacking/] it was possible to

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Federated CodeCommit Access

CodeCommit access via federated credentials is the way to go. You're not using long-lived Access Keys are you? Bad engineer! Stop that! For better or worse, federated IAM access requires you to use the HTTPS endpoint with a

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Serverless Operations Presentation

Last week I presented to the Sydney AWS Lambda User Group [https://www.meetup.com/Sydney-AWS-Lambda-User-Group/events/245247306/] about serverless operations aka. LessOps. Here are the slides I used to talk about the good - and less good - things

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