All 'aws' related blog posts
Testing Step Functions Locally
Have you built a Step Function with many steps, retries and end states - but you are left wondering, how do I test this masterpiece to ensure it's as wonderful...
26 April 2023
EC2 Charges - They are NAT a joke
How to reduce your AWS costs by avoiding unnecessary NAT Gateway usage
15 September 2022
How to pause a Step Function while waiting on a response from a third party API
In this post we explore how you can pause a Step Function, using Task Tokens, while waiting on an external process to be completed
3 August 2022
AppSync and DynamoDB Lessons Learned
AppSync and DynamoDB - name a more iconic duo!? I’ll wait…
30 June 2022
Deploying an AWS AppSync API with WAF using CDK v2
In this tutorial, we’ll look at how you can leverage AWS CDK v2 to deploy an AppSync GraphQL API behind AWS WAF and use managed rules to protect against the...
25 May 2022
Scanning S3 Files with ClamAV and CDK
In this post we look at how to trigger virus scanning of files when they are uploaded to S3 utilising AWS CDK and Lambda container images
7 March 2022
Improving CDK development cycle
Spend less time waiting on deployments with CDK hot swaps
25 February 2022
CDK Lessons Learned
5 need to know lessons for any AWS Cloud Development Kit users
24 January 2022
Building an OpenSearch Index from DynamoDB
In this post we see how to set up an OpenSearch domain with a DynamoDB source
11 November 2021
Lambda Container Images
Ever wish you could combine the portability of containers, with the scalability of Lambda functions? Well now you can!
5 March 2021
An AWS Lambda Advent-ure in Python
Let’s build a web-based, programming-related advent calendar using AWS Lambda, Python, Google Sheets and CDK. No chocolates I’m afraid, but along the way we’ll learn a bit about Serverless Python
30 November 2020
Using Native Dependencies with AWS Lambda
How to use native dependencies with AWS Lambda and Functions as a Service
