Allen WhiteCloud Architecting Gone Bad: How Not to Build a Solution on AWSI had a client who hired a contract development team to build a custom application to be hosted on AWS. I’m a huge proponent and evangelist…Jul 7Jul 7
Allen WhitePrivate Lambda Access to S3 and DynamoDB (and other AWS services)In general when we access services on AWS we are making API calls over the public internet. This is generally the case as well when we…Jun 30Jun 30
Allen WhiteUsing Filter Policies to Filter Messages from Amazon SNSFrom the AWS documentation: Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a managed service that provides message delivery from…Jun 25Jun 25
Allen WhiteGetting an Object Download Notification from AWS S3Amazon S3 notifications are pretty powerful and one of my favorite features of the service. We can create notifications of events on our S3…Jun 24Jun 24
Allen WhiteAWS Transfer Family SFTP Server Setup with WorkflowsAWS Transfer Family is a managed file transfer service that offers support for the transfer of files over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, and FTP directly…Jun 24Jun 24
Allen WhiteMonitoring Changes to Your AWS Organizations with CloudTrail and EventBridgeAWS Organizations is a service in AWS that facilitates the management of multiple AWS accounts under one organization. The Organizations…Jun 22Jun 22
Allen WhiteUsing S3 Resource Policy for Fine Grained AccessIAM (Identity and Access Management) is how we manage credentialed access to resources in our AWS accounts. By default, a user has no…Jun 21Jun 21
Allen WhiteProductizing Cloud Solutions in Your MSP BusinessI have previously evangelized about how MSPs can dramatically improve their profit margins by building solutions in the cloud and selling…Jun 19Jun 19
Allen WhiteGetting Automatic Status Updates on AWS EC2 Autoscaling ChangesEC2 autoscaling is an important service in AWS. It is the foundation of building not only highly available but elastic application server…Jun 18Jun 18
Allen WhiteAccessing an EFS Fileshare on AWS From Both EC2 and LambdaAmazon EFS is serverless, fully elastic NFS storage on AWS. Creating the filesystem is very simple and doesn’t require declaration of a…Jun 17Jun 17