IAM Roles are a critical security feature in AWS. Handling them is not very intuitive in the beginning. In this blog post we take a look behind the curtain and explain what’s going on when you assume a role.
With current ransomware attacks it is important to have a reliable backup strategie in place. With Veeam Backup & Replication you are able to backup your on-premises and hybrid environments and extend your storage solution with AWS Cloud capabilities to increase capacity and archiving storage with AWS S3 service.
Concurrent access to the same items in DynamoDB can lead to consistency problems. In this post I explain why that is and introduce optimistic locking as a technique to combat this issue.
After describing the context of the test pyramid for Infrastructure as Code in part 1, and the Web Application in Part 2a - let`s apply that to some Lambda function.
The newly introduced ECS Anywhere feature lets us use our existing resources as Compute Power in Amazon ECS. Let’s talk about some basics and see how ECS Anywhere can be set up in Terraform!
There are many components under the Glue umbrella that can fit together into a cohesive big picture. In this introduction to Glue I’m explaining my version of this big picture.
With CDK you create Infrastructure as Code - IaC. You can automate the test for the IaC code. The three test tastes -Unit, Integration and Application- should work closely together. Here I show you how. It is like the three steps of coffee tasting: 1 smell, 2 Taste, 3 Feel.
In almost every tutorial on AWS you will come across the term “Least Privilege”. Writing IAM policies properly requires lots of research and time - that’s the reason why many projects still rely on AWS Managed Policies or write exploitable policies. But there are tools to help you along.
