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Implementing Zero-Trust in AWS

Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is a security model that operates on the principle of "never trust, always verify." This approach is crucial in cloud environments like AWS, where resources are distribut ...

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ES Foundation to be officially launched at SaaS Summit Benelux 2024

Today we are announcing the launch of our new PaaS platform ES Foundation. A cloud agnostic platform as a service aimed specifically at solving all infrastructure headaches for growing SaaS companies. ...

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Reduce AWS Fargate pull times with SOCI

One of the major drawbacks of AWS Fargate is that the pull times are relatively slow (compared to EC2). This is because EC2 nodes can have a local image cache on the instance. Fargate is serverless co ...

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Reduce your AWS CloudFront costs by switching to Cloudflare

When you have an application behind CloudFront that is read-heavy (like most static websites) you will find that the AWS CloudFront costs can be a nasty surprise on your AWS bill. These costs can be v ...

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Cross account AWS KMS keys

Let’s say you have a IAM role in account 12345678 and it needs kms:Decrypt access to an key in another account 987654321, you need to keep the following Policy Evaluation Diagram in mind:

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How to get free AWS credits for your startup or scale-up

How to get free AWS credits for your startup or scale-up? Cloud infrastructure represents one of the largest expenses for entrepreneurs who depend on software. For start-ups and scale-ups aspiring for ...

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IAM policy pitfalls

AWS has a lot of poor practices on their website. For instance if you look at the default Lambda execution role:

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How to overcome "Unsupported Wildcard In Principal"

If you want to create an policy that wildcards the Principal AWS element in an IAM trust policy you will get an error.

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Gain remote access to an AWS RDS instance

Often your developers or you need remote access to a RDS cluster. Often you would use a bastion host for that. You’d connect to the bastion host and from there configure port forwarding to the instanc ...

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Give your team the time and freedom to get back to developing features

Security, privacy, and a reliable uptime. All neatly wrapped up into one platform. Book a call to find out how you can reduce your team's infrastructure workload.