Up until late last year, you couldn't set up automatic failover in CloudFront to look at a different bucket. You could only have one Primary origin at a time, which meant that you needed additional...
Get branded short links under your own domain for dirt-cheap by self-hosting it on AWS using CloudFront + S3. It's a no-code server-less solution to get redirects on the cheap and in this guide, I'll...
This problem landed on my lap awhile ago, and I've seen it come up time and time again so I wanted to share how we went about it. Our marketing team was submitting one of our products for a review for...
At my current gig, we've got 50+ services, ~6+ environments, and a rough count of 3.5k parameters across our environments. We used to use Chef::EncryptedDataBags when we used chef-server. A few years...
Yes! Absolutely. It'll be the only way for you to really know whats going on behind the scenes. When I got started, my first few expenses of my tech career were a domain, a private non-gmail email...
This is a pretty typical nightmare scenario. An engineer suddenly quit and I was part of a new team that was maintaining a brittle system with little documentation. Someone pings me and says, hey this...
Right now, we have a website hosted in an S3 bucket using CloudFront defined in terraform running with automated tests. There's a few catches with using this setup so we'll go into what these issues...
Let's review the architecture we put together in Part 1. Check out Part 1 a main website that is hosted at a www. subdomain an html/js/css app that is hosted in an S3 bucket a cloudfront distribution...
Creating a serverless static website What's the problem? I want to deploy a plain HTML/CSS/JS website with the minimal amount of fuss. I'm going to be using it for a simple web-app so I want to make...