Using CFN-LINT to Validate IAM Resources in AWS

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

Futurespective – Identifying the Path to Good

In this post I talk about one of my favourite futurespective techniques, the Future-Backwards and how you can utilise it effectively to quickly identify the ‘Path to Good’.

Cevo Accelerator Program 2019

We sat down with Kirsty McDonald and Trystan Sykes to get the inside scoop about their Cevo Accelerator experience and who we’re looking for in 2019.

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.

Three Times as Fast

Cevo achieves the technology hat trick!!

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.

Cloudformation Deep Dive

There are a few key criteria I look for in CloudFormation – If I’m in a multi-account strategy then I must be able to deploy the CloudFormation in all accounts and/or regions. Additionally I must be able to stand up multiple copies of the same stack in the same VPC and account and/or regions.

System Mapping

Discover, Explore & Communicate the Real Complexity of Your Systems (presentation from LastConf 2018).

Python as a Cloud Glue Language

Let’s look at adding Python to your cloud development toolbox to increase reliability and dependability of your development and operations practices.

Scaling AWS ECS Services With Alarms, Target Tracking & Cloudformation

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