Serverless soultions is can be incredibly cheap due to their event-based nature - if your system isn't working, you pay barely anything for it. But if you're not careful, serverless can still result in some nasty surprises when it comes to costs.
AWS Reserved Instances Cheatsheet
Reserved Instances (RIs) are a great way to save some money if you've got consistent AWS EC2 usage, without needing to make changes to your instances!
Cleaning up Lambda Logs with CloudFormation
Is your CloudWatch Logs console full of old log groups? Got 50 pages of Lambda log groups? Don't worry, I have the solution for you! The issue here is not the cost; While there is a cost associated
Everything you need to know about CloudFormation Drift Detection
Announced this week, CloudFormation Drift Detection [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cloudformation-drift-detection/] has been a long time coming! That being said, it's great when features like this are added to the platform and I get to use
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
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
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