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