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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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Run n8n on AWS for less than a cup of coffee per month

n8n is a workflow automation tool that you can use for workflow automation, it is a similar tool to Zapier and is more developer oriented. I recently found that a customer required to launch n8n in mu ...

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Getting a shell inside a container on AWS ECS

Sometimes you need to be able to get a shell in an ECS container (ie. bash). Mostly this is to debug some issue in the container. Before 2021 this was practically impossible until AWS launched ECS Exe ...

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Get a cheap VPN into your AWS VPC and worldwide performance improvement through Cloudflare tunnels

In this article you can read about cheap VPN for your AWS VPC and better performance through Cloudflare tunnels.

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How to run Hashicorp Vault Cloud together with Laravel

In this end to end tutorial I will show you how to run Hashicorp Vault Cloud together with Laravel. I made example code in Terraform so you can see how you can provision your Vault cluster on HashiCor ...

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Debugging unexpected issues with Terraform

Since Terraform is relatively new software, you might need to fix issues in a undocumented way. You can spend hours debugging internal providers this way but there are a couple of ways that can help y ...

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Extreme MongoDB database performance with AWS Fargate Sidecars

When you use MongoDB or any other database as a transient data store you will be mainly limited by the network performance of your containers.

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