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Amazon Web Services provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis with a free-tier option available for 12 months.

Security

Private AWS S3 - How hard could that be?

Applying private routing to AWS management APIs is hard. AWS S3 has had some poor press coverage, but to Amazon's credit it has always been subject to authentication by default and not leaked any customer data.

Security

Everything in AWS is an API, is it secure?

EDIT: 2020-08-01 SHA-1 Windows content to be retired in 2 days. Amazon is in an ever decreasing group of cryptography ignorant providers. EDIT: 2020-08-07 China believes TLS 1.3 privacy (hidden identity, not to be confused with confidentiality of data) is so effective they are going to block all TLS

Security

PCI DSS - Are AWS KMS and CloudHSM suitable?

A look into the suitability of AWS KMS and CloudHSM for use with workloads in-scope of PCI DSS. Who owns my encryption key in AWS? By owning we might think of ownership as who has potential to access the key to decrypt the data. I like to think of ownership

DevOps

Software Engineers guide to AWS Solution Architecture

So you're a developer or operations engineer (or both, DevOps) and work in a small team that either has no access to a Solution Architect. or you do but expected to re-architect solutions for security and reliabilty Get to know the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the new Operational Excellence Pillar

AWS

Problems with AWS API Gateway stemmed from CloudFront

API Gateway is a service offered by AWS and was established originally as a code fork of thier CloudFront service and has evolved separately ever since. Although an interesting fact there has been little evidence to show any sort of relationship between the 2 services since API Gateway was released.

ElasticSearch

Search as a Service landscape mid 2017

Search as a Service is a type of SaaS for search, externally-provided search services enable you to have a full featured search engine available within your own software offerings so you can focus on your data and search UI rather than having to create and maintain all of the nuances

AWS

AWS EC2 Scaling gotchas no one told you

Here are some things I wish someone told me before I needed to manage over 5 million connections a day, 35k concurrently on average (Melbourne Cup). If that sounds like a lot to you, it is, the Commonwealth Bank had less than 1 million hits a day this month and

AWS

AWS Autoscaling Best Practices

Welcome to Auto Scaling in the Amazon Cloud If the fundamental premise of the "cloud" is use only the resources you need for as long as you need them So for a website you save money when traffic is low; dynamic scaling based on traffic. Enterprise SaaS is