Everything I Learned from One Year of AWS Consulting
Thoughts and learnings from 1 year as an AWS consultant
Recent posts
AWS re:Invent 2019 Recap
Everything you need to know about re:Invent 2019
The Open CDK Guide
Publishing an open source CDK guide with an opionated set of tips and best practices for working with the CDK
A Tale of Two Buckets: Investigating Multi-Account IAM Issues in S3 and CloudFront
The story of a bad multi-account deployment and the ensuing investigation to find the truth. A tale of intrigue, identity and access.
CDK All The Things: A Whirlwind Tour
Ever wanted to provision AWS infrastructure with the expressivity of python, the type safety of java and the declarative nuance of CloudFormation?
No Reservations: A Definite Guide to EC2 Reserved Instances
EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs) are probably the most effective way of reducing your AWS bill by as much as 75% but are underutilized because of perceived compl...
Building Scalable Serverless Applications on AWS
Slides to my talk on serverless, answering age old questions such as: Serverless, what is it? Why Care? How do you scale it?
My Podcasting Setup
My setup and process for podcasting
Benchmarking Lambda’s Idle Timeout Before A Cold Start
An investigation of how long a Lambda can idle before a cold start. Benchmarks includes Lambdas from 128MB all the way up to 3008MB across multiple regions.
Giving Third Parties Limited Access to your AWS Account
An exploration of various AWS managed read-only IAM policies. Understand what they do and how to apply them to your account the next time you have a third pa...