Blog Archive

Reducing the risk of cyber attacks against applications hosted in AWS

About a month ago, I saw an article on the NCSC blog that prompted me to write this in response, focusing on how to interpret the actionable points that they have made and apply them to workloads that run within AWS.

A first peek at Lambda Powertools

We'll look at my five favourite features of Lambda Powertools and how they can be used day-to-day to make development more efficient. Deliberately not going into super detail on how to set up each of these features - the documentation is very, very good and there's no need for me to repeat it all!

2020 and 2021 in review

A look back at the years of 2020 and 2021 and what's to come in 2022.

VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, oh my!

Let's look at how to get started with the most important constructs in the world of networking on AWS.

Empowering developers without weakening security posture

So, you want to allow developers to create IAM roles without compromising security? You're in the right place! Permissions boundaries are very much the answer.