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How to Customise the AWS CDK Pipeline

Background Have you ever wanted the power of the AWS CodePipeline mixed with the convenience of the …

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Unlocking the Power of AWS CDK: Why It's …

Background At Virtuability, we’re always on the lookout for tools that can enhance our AWS …

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Querying AWS CloudTrail Logs with Athena …

Background Over the years, we have helped organisations make sense of their CloudTrail logs when …

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Boto3 and Python unittest.mock

I start this post by saying I’m not a professional software developer, I work mainly in IT …

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Reduce Cost at Scale with Automated …

Background As organisations continue to grow and with the resulting increases in AWS consumption …

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Why organisations should implement AWS …

In a fast-paced cloud environment governance is fundamental, defining standard policies for …

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AWS NLB and Client IP Preservation - How …

Have you ever created a Network Load Balancer on AWS, its target group and its target, and some …

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Break the rules of virtualization, build …

How often are you deploying a Lambda container image, basically a Lambda running on a Docker image, …

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AWS CDK + API Gateway and Integrations. …

I’ve been working with CDK and I think is brilliant, the way it lets you define resources and …

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Simply Deploy AWS IAM Identity Center …

With AWS IAM Identity Center, formerly known as AWS Single Sign-On, it became simpler to integrate …

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Enable Security Hub in an AWS …

Background In November 2020 AWS announced that Security Hub now integrates with AWS Organizations. …

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Use the Raspberry Pi 4 for AWS …

Background With the advent of the Raspberry Pi 4, Pi’s are sufficiently powerful in terms of …

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Get started with Ubuntu 20.04 on …

Background With the advent of the Raspberry Pi 4, Pi’s have become quite powerful both in CPU …

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Install & run AWS Glue 1.0 and PySpark …

Background It’s much faster to be able to develop and debug AWS Glue / PySpark scripts …

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Leveraging Serverless (SAM) with Cognito …

Introduction Using Serverless combined with Cognito can be a great way to eliminate the real estate …

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The case for Structured, Contextual Logs

Introduction If correctly composed, logs can be an extremely useful resource to tap into in the …

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6 Steps to DevOps

Introduction Why adopt DevOps? IT change can be painful and subject to long lead times in many …

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Why Serverless & DevOps makes a (big) …

Background We have recently completed a Serverless & DevOps transformation project with one of …

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Moving to Cloud: the Landing Zone

In military terms a Landing Zone is an area where aircraft can land; in effect a base camp from …

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Securing Cross-Account AWS API Calls & …

AWS Cross-Account Roles are an excellent way of managing access to a target account (the account in …

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Creating a Core Network Foundation in …

For both test and build purposes I often find myself reusing parts of past CloudFormation templates. …

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Need a good reason to switch to …

AWS CloudFormation size limits are well-documented in the User Guide. However, this does not make …

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Moving to Cloud: Agility

Over the years I have witnessed, proposed and implemented a wide range of AWS use cases; and few of …

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Securing AWS API Calls & CLI Access with …

One of the largest concerns of allowing AWS API calls to be made from the outside is issuing an API …

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