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Programmatically backup your Amazon Route53 zones deployed via AWS CDK

Programmatically backup your Amazon Route53 zones Table of Contents Overview Deployment Code Requirements Deployment Overview Deployment Diagram Outputs Amazon S3 Bucket Operating Cost Recap Overview Looking for an easy way to backup your Amazon Route53 records to Amazon S3 with proper lifecycle rules and retention? Look no further, as we cover how to deploy this solution using AWS CDK!

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.

HashiCorp Terraform AWS Provider v3.4.0 now supports aws_emr_managed_scaling_policy

HashiCorp Terraform AWS-Provider Issue #13952 was highly sought after for a recent implementation of EMR v5.30.0. The requirements included the need for the utilization of AWS Auto Scaling for EMR. We sought out the AWS EMR Managed Scaling feature, but were sad to see that support for that attribute was not in the AWS provider yet.

Deployment of HashiCorp Vault using Terraform

aws-vault Terraform deployment of HashiCorp Vault. This is a work in progress write-up and will change.

Using Hugo & AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFront & S3 to deploy a static site

Retrospective: blog deployment model Goal Deploy a personal blog (in this case, troydieter.com) using the below requirements. I’ve used other deployment models, such as CI/CD pipelines – namely Jenkins to deploy static sites. Previous to the below approach, Ghost blog was used in conjunction with Nginx.

Backup AWS Route 53 using AWS Lambda

This has been updated to use AWS CDK and is much more refined. Check out: https://www.troydieter.com/post/r53_backups_2.0/ Need a way to automatically back up your AWS Route53 public DNS zones? Look no further, as a combination of the following AWS products can fit the need: Lambda Route53 CloudWatch S3 This will execute a Lambda function every 6 hours (or whichever you set the CloudWatch event to). It will use the IAM role to export your Route53 public zones as a CSV & JSON to the S3 bucket of your choice.