Securing Load Balancers: A Tale of Two CloudFront Approaches
10 February 2025 | Jesse Millman
As web applications grow in complexity, securing communication between CloudFront and origin servers remains a critical concern. Today, we explore two approaches to this challenge: custom header validation vs Amazon's newly announced CloudFront VPC origins feature. We'll see how this new approach dramatically simplifies origin security while improving your infrastructure's security posture.
A Grad's Review of re:Invent 2024
30 January 2025 | Sophie Giraudo
My 3 top highlights from attending re:Invent 2024 thanks to the AWS All Builders Welcome Grant.
Aurora DSQL: The Future of Serverless Relational Data
22 January 2025 | Jesse Millman
Amazon's newest database offering, Aurora DSQL, makes it easier than ever to build highly performant global applications that need consistent data everywhere. Unlike previous solutions that required complex trade offs between performance and reliability, DSQL lets you write and read data from any location while keeping everything in sync automatically.
Snowflake DevOps - first impressions and comparison with schemachange
13 January 2025 | Maciej Tarsa
An evaluation of Snowflake DevOps tools for managing lifecycle of Snowflake resources compared with schemachange
Getting Dynamic with Snowflake
18 November 2024 | Ben Dang
Exploring Snowflake's Dynamic Tables feature
How a Simple Configuration Almost Compromised Our Application.
5 November 2024 | Caio Kaihara
Discover how a single misconfiguration in Amazon CloudFront led to a security vulnerability, exposing user data to potential risk, and the steps we took to resolve it.
AppSync Events - Serverless WebSockets on AWS
4 November 2024 | Jesse Millman
Websockets used to be a nightmare, but no longer! Dive into the new AppSync Event API
24 October 2024 | Mechanical Rock
A recap of the 2024 UXCamp Boorloo, a conference for UX professionals
Deploying MWAA with CloudFormation Part 2
16 September 2024 | Maciej Tarsa
Experience and hurdles of deploying Amazon Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) with CloudFormation
14 August 2024 | Bret Waldow
AWS credentials can be leaked! Here are some ways to stop this or deal with it.