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
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
"exec format error" from SAM Local with Golang on Mac
I was getting my hands dirty with AWS SAM Local [https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-local] and Golang based functions the other day (since golang function support was added in 0.2.7 [https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-local/releases/tag/v0.
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
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
Top 10 AWS Serverless Resources
With so much buzz around serverless at re:Invent [https://reinvent.awsevents.com/] 2017, I thought it would be a good time to highlight the best places and resources to find AWS-specific serverless information: 1. AWS re:Invent 2017 Serverless
Edge Bundling Security Groups Redux
You can now visualise your own EC2 security groups [https://rowanu.github.io/security-groups-edge-bundling/] using edge bundling - No scripts, no downloads! This small web application takes an AWS access key id and secret access key to make requests against
A last minute guide to re:Invent
I'm fortunate enough to be heading back to AWS re:Invent [https://reinvent.awsevents.com/] this year. If tickets aren't sold out by the time you read this, they will be soon. Here's a