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.
What’s the Difference? Monitoring, Logging & Alerting
Monitoring, Logging & Alerting – they’re all the same thing, right?
Test Driven Infrastructure

My presentation and InSpec demonstration at LastConf 2018 Melbourne.
Why Agile isn’t Working

We keep hearing that Agile methodologies work… but, what if they’re not? Sometimes you need to look under the hood.
DynamodB Autoscaling with Cloudformation

Automatic scaling of the provisioned capacity in the DynamoDB can be confusing at times. Let’s examine resources needed to configure autoscaling and the limitations it brings.
Review: The good, bad and ugly of Amazon Connect

Linux and Mac users love working on Docker, why should Windows get left behind?!