The Importance of Cloud Compliance: Why it Doesn’t have to be Hard or Expensive

Attain automated remedial security within your AWS Pipeline by using Lambda to help with blast radius reduction and compliance obtainment.

A Year in the Life of a Cevo Accelerator

12 months on from where it all began for me at Cevo…

AWS Summit Sydney 2019

In this post I review some of the great things from the AWS Summit Sydney that took place May 1st – 2nd 2019.

Reducing ALB Costs Using Host-Based Rules

In this article, we show an opportunity to reduce costs when multiple Application Load Balancers (ALB) are in use. By using one of the ALB’s features and minor changes to the environment, it’s possible to save some money on your AWS bill.

With our Heads in The Cloud

Let’s peel back the covers on the Cevo hive mind, and watch the team take on the tricky subject of cloud agnostic solutions.

Using CFN-LINT to Validate IAM Resources in AWS

Highly recommended for any automation engineer who wants to control their Cloudformation via a pipeline.

Every Cloud(Front) Has a Silver Lining

A deep dive into some of the different options when configuring CloudFront to get the best out of it for your application.

Creating Password-Protected Static Websites in S3

Using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge to allow password-protection of static website content hosted in S3
Hosting static websites in S3 is a well-understood domain; but what happens when you want to password-protect it? It’s a static website – there’s no webserver, so you can’t do password-based access control. Or can you? Read on to learn how.

Scaling AWS ECS Services With Alarms, Target Tracking & Cloudformation

The topic of ECS autoscaling is a vast area of heated discussions and broken dreams.

Test Driven Infrastructure

My presentation and InSpec demonstration at LastConf 2018 Melbourne.