AWS

AWS

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.
Jun
17

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.
6 min read
Jun
07

Everything in AWS is an API, is it secure?

EDIT: 2020-08-01 SHA-1 Windows content to be retired [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/sha-1-windows-content-to-be-retired-august-3-2020/ba-p/1544373] in 2 days.
20 min read
Sep
01
PCI DSS - Are AWS KMS and CloudHSM suitable?

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
11 min read
May
12
Software Engineers guide to AWS Solution Architecture

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
6 min read
Nov
17
Problems with AWS API Gateway stemmed from CloudFront

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
2 min read
Jun
13
Search as a Service landscape mid 2017

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
6 min read
Nov
28
AWS EC2 Scaling gotchas no one told you

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,
4 min read
Jul
02
AWS Autoscaling Best Practices

AWS Autoscaling Best Practices

Welcome to Auto Scaling in the Amazon Cloud If the fundamental premise of the "cloud" is > use
14 min read