AWS Config rules allow you to determine if a resource is compliant or not. Previously when you wanted to do custom checks you needed to write AWS Lambda functions to validate the configuration of a resource. Since Aug 2, 2022 you have the ability to use cfn-guard rules to achieve the same.

Use our python-cli-tool cookiecutter project. Get an python cli project up and running in a few steps. In my previous speedup-event-driven-projects blog. I wrote how you could use cookiecutter to spin up an event driven project for AWS. In this blog post I will show you how you could do this for python cli projects.

Use our sam-eventbridge-project cookiecutter project. Get an event driven project up and running in a few steps. On the 3rd of October the AWS Community Day NL was held in Amersfoort. I gave a talk about CodeCommit and how you could use events to make your life easier.

Finicky will help you when you use different browsers, and/or different profiles. As a consultant I often use browser profiles to split my clients. I have a “Binx.io” profile for all Binx related work. For each client I have corresponding profiles. Let’s call them “Client A” and “Client B”.

In one of my previous blog. I wrote how you could make your life easier when you start using Makefile. But when you start using Makefile in many projects. The targets that you use may vary from project to project.

I have been working as a consultant for over a year now. And I noticed that a lot of our clients are asking for experience on HashiCorp Terraform and AWS. So I figured it might be time to learn something new!

When you use IAM user for programmatic access. You have an ACCESS_KEY and a SECRET_ACCESS_KEY. With these credentials you are able to interact with AWS. A common pattern is that you will use the IAM User to assume roles in the same or even in different AWS accounts. The CLI configuration would look something like this:

Policies and Permission Controls

Access management is a crucial part of managing your workloads. It is also one of the primary areas where debugging can be problematic. In AWS, there are multiple ways to control access to the platform at various levels. These permission policies make it possible to optimize control of applications, programs, and resources, so day-to-day operations run as smoothly as possible. AWS has many options to create secure policies on its platform. Deciding which policies and permission controls to use for different organizations can seem daunting. Organizations rely on AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access management. But there are more options, particularly for larger, more complex organizations with many accounts. Here, we tackle the best use case scenarios for AWS access management according to the needs of different users and organizations, small and large. We also address new developments and guidance in debugging permission errors.

When you start building infrastructure as code. You will run into the situation that, you want to split a stack into separate ones. Or, you deployed a resource in the wrong stack. This is all part of the development lifecycle. You try things, some succeed, some will fail. But deployed production resources are hard to rebuild. They either have a complex data migration path or you can’t afford the downtime.