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KMS Key Policy Privilege Escalation

Encrypting data at rest is a widespread best practice on AWS. In 2019, Werner Vogels ...

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In 2015 - after building on Amazon Web Services for two years - I made ...

Join our re:Invent follow-up group

Amazing, AWS released an impressive amount of new services and features during re:Invent. As the ...

Jenkins Templates for AWS CloudFormation

This page has moved to GitHub: https://github.com/widdix/aws-cf-templates/tree/master/jenkins

Introducing the real-time data store: Kinesis Streams

Kinesis is all about real-time data:

Introducing the Object Store: S3

Back in the old days, data was managed as files in a hierarchy consisting of ...

Introducing AWS Lambda

You don’t need a virtual machine to run your own source code any more as ...

Interacting with AWS to turn system diagrams into reality

Generally speaking, you can host any application on AWS. If you interact with AWS, you ...

Integrate SQS and Lambda: serverless architecture for asynchronous workloads

The Gold Standard for modern cloud-native applications is a serverless architecture. AWS Lambda allows you ...

Improve Security (Groups) using VPC Flow Logs & AWS Config

As mentioned in the previous post Your AWS Account is a mess? Learn how to ...