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.

How to Debug AWS Application Load Balancers With Minimal Colourful Vituperations

A multitudinous method to make a HTTP request meet a matching HTTP response.

Meltdown, Spectre and Linux on AWS: Security vs Performance?

AWS’ Shared Responsibility Model means that you are responsible for patching the operating system running on your EC2 instances, and this is where things get … complicated.

Productise Me!

Have you thought about how to make your work a product?

A Spot of AWS

Have you considered using spot instances to save on AWS costs? It may pay to investigate the details of your operating environment first! Andy and I took journey down a pricing rabbit hole…