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Demistify AWS IAM permissions required for AWS MSK Connect

Demystifying AWS MSK Connect IAM permissions MSK Connect requires a bit of well-defined IAM (Identity and Access Management) permissions to make it successful. I’m here to help navigate your way through the required permissions to utilize AWS MSK Connect!

Deploying Google Lighthouse CI (LHCI) using AWS-CDK & Fargate

Deploying a highly available, persistent Google Lighthouse interface through AWS-CDK Table of Contents Prelude - the code Intro - What’s Lighthouse? Why accessibility matters What’s Section 508? Patient Interaction How do I ensure compliance? Deployment Requirements Initial Setup Read the Docs! Diagram Noted cleanup Outcome What did we build? 1. Operational Excellence 2. Security 3. Reliability 4. Performance Efficiency 5. Cost Optimization 6. Sustainability Prelude - Show me the code! The code is currently maintained on GitHub.

AWS-CDK 1.150.0 now supports AWS-SSO!

AWS SSO now supported in AWS-CDK v1.150.0 Overview What is AWS-CDK? AWS SSO AWS-CDK v1.150.0 Features Bug Fixes Impact Why does it matter? After effect Implementation How do I use this new feature? Overview As of 03/26/2022 - aws-cdk v1.150 now supports AWS Single Sign On! Let’s walk through the impact, what it fixes and why it’s important.

Utilize random_shuffle to improve AWS availability zone spread when deploying with Terraform

random_shuffle In my repository, event-driven-msk (shown here) - an Amazon VPC is deployed, along with subnets for private & public. A part of that requires a region selection (defined in your provider.tf file), along with availability zone selection.

Using CloudFront origin groups to increase availability on SPA deployments

Table of Contents Overview Services utilized Existing deployment Existing deployment availability Adding high-availability Amazon S3 bucket (cross region) OAI - Origin Access Identity Don’t let DNS be your dependency in HA design Lambda@Edge can be mighty slow to de-replicate Honorable mentions Handling index.html redirection Redirects Security Conclusion Overview Adding automated failover for your SPA deployment that is deployed to an associated AWS region is a simple, cost-effective way to increase site availability! In this post, we’ll cover the sometimes forgotten parts of Amazon CloudFront, Lambda@Edge (and purpose-driven functionality) along with Amazon S3 as native origin’s within an origin group.

Expand your security response headers using newly native Amazon CloudFront Response Headers!

It was recently (11/02/2021) announced that: Today, Amazon CloudFront is launching support for response headers policies. You can now add cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), security, and custom headers to HTTP responses returned by your CloudFront distributions. You no longer need to configure your origins or use custom Lambda@Edge or CloudFront functions to insert these headers.

AWS IAM (Identity & Access Management) visualization

Table of Contents Overview PMapper - Intro PMapper - Requirements PMapper - Installation PMapper - Commands PMapper - Demo PMapper - Visualization PMapper - Recap Appendix Overview Over the years of utilizing AWS (Amazon Web Services), I find myself:

Automating data workflows using Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend Medical deployed through Terraform

Overview Automating data workflows using Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend Medical deployed through Terraform

Conjure CloudWatch metrics in the CLI!

Visualizing CloudWatch Metrics in the command line using Node.js! Intro Capabilities AWS Lambda Amazon DynamoDB Amazon API Gateway Requirements Now, let’s see it in action! Setup & Installation First walkthrough Using the Linux watch command paired with awscii Intro awscii allows for the ability to stay in the command line when troubleshooting or the desire to retrive AWS CloudWatch Metrics. This open-source tool displays your accounts CloudWatch metrics in an easy to digest, updatable way!

Work from home - where's your headset?

Showdown: battle of the work from home headphones Overview Over the past few years, I’ve used a lot of work-from-home headphones. I’ve found myself at the point of a Goldilocks & 3 bears scenario a few times now; what headset is right for me?!