How to Secure your Instance Metadata Service on AWS

In this two-part series, I will explain and demonstrate how to update your EC2 instances to use IMDSv2 as well as automate this process through the use of SSM Documents that can be provisioned within your CloudFormation templates.

Well Architected Serverless – Enabling CloudWatch Lambda Insights

CloudWatch Lambda Insights is a monitoring and troubleshooting solution for serverless applications running on AWS Lambda. It collects, aggregates, and summarises system-level metrics including CPU time, memory, disk, and network. It also collects, aggregates, and summarises diagnostic information such as cold starts and Lambda worker shutdowns to help you troubleshoot health and performance issues with your Lambda functions.

How to Extend IAM’s Switch Role Limit using AWS Extend Switch Roles

In this blog post, I will be highlighting a browser extension that I have found to be extremely beneficial in managing access to multiple AWS Cloud Accounts. Introducing AWS Extend Switch Roles, a browser extension that allows users to switch between roles and customize its appearance all through the tool’s configuration window.

Terraform pipeline to ingest streaming data into Snowflake using Amazon Kinesis

Demonstration of how one can use terraform to easily set up a data streaming pipeline to ingest twitter data into snowflake via Amazon Kinesis data firehose.

[A Well Architected Walkthrough] Operations 1 – How do you determine what your priorities are?

We start working through the questions of a Well Architected Review with the “Operational Excellence” pillar and how to identify what your priorities are.

STARTING FROM SCRATCH – HOW TO START WITH A NEW MASTER BILLING ACCOUNT

Recently, I did something I haven’t done in quite some time….. create a new Master Billing Account for a customer. This actually tripped me up a little bit as it raised a question I haven’t had to think about due to the wonderful world of automation; “What do I need to do to a new AWS Master Billing Account?”

Infrastructure as Code 101 [DevOps Series]

Rather than building environments by hand from a checklist, turn the process into an automated and repeatable process. This is Infrastructure as Code.

re:Invent 2020 Wrap-Up: Werner Vogels Keynote

The final in this series overview of the AWS re:Invent 2020 keynotes – Werner Vogels focusing on Observability, Dependability, and “meeting developers where they are”.

re:Invent 2020 Wrap-Up: Infrastructure Keynote with Peter DeSantis

This post covers some of the take-aways from the Infrastructure Keynote with Peter DeSantis at re:Invent 2020.

re:Invent 2020 wrap-up: Partner Keynote (and more)

This post covers some of the take-aways form the Partner Keynote at re:Invent 2020 that benefit both partners and direct customers alike.