Articles tagged with "level-200"

How to accidentally create read-only DynamoDB items

In a recent Developing on AWS course I was faced with an interesting question about DynamoDB. What happens if you create an item that features attributes of a global secondary index with a data type that doesn’t match the index? My intuition was wrong, let’s check out what actually happens.

Enhancing CloudFront Security with Response Headers

Response headers play a vital role in reinforcing security measures, protecting against various attacks, and enhancing the overall security of your web applications. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to implement a CloudFront response header policy to improve security, walk through the process of testing and refining your settings, and discuss how to automate these changes across your infrastructure.

Mastering URL Redirections with AWS CloudFront Functions

Struggling with URL redirections for your AWS-hosted website? If you’re using an S3 bucket as your origin, you might have noticed that S3 alone doesn’t support dynamic redirects via server-side rules. That’s where AWS CloudFront Functions come in—offering a fast, simple, and cost-effective way to manage redirections. In this guide, we’ll show you how CloudFront can handle your URL redirections without requiring separate S3 buckets or CloudFront distributions, streamlining your architecture and improving your website’s SEO and user experience.

Introduction to SSO with the IAM Identity Center and Entra ID

IAM Identity Center, formerly AWS SSO, is often used as an access management solution in front of one or more AWS accounts. More often than not, its purpose is to grant access to AWS accounts within an AWS organization. Today we’ll shed some light on the basic concepts and explain how this solution can be integrated with Azure AD which has recently been renamed to Entra ID to provide Single-Sign-On to your AWS environment.