It’s a good practice to use CloudFormation’s DeletionPolicy to protect stateful resources such as DynamoDB tables or RDS databases from accidental deletions. Such as when someone accidentally deletes a CloudFormation stack! As I discussed previously [1], this is a much better way to guard against these accidental data losses than separating stateful and stateless resources … Help! How do I set DeletionPolicy to Retain for production only? Read More » The post Help! How do I set DeletionPolicy to Retain f[...]

Hi, here’s a quick round-up of everything I have done in September 2023. Podcast The first two episodes of this new format are available already: #82 – Big things are coming Lambda Powertools [Heitor Lessa] #83 – Unpacking Google’s latest AI announcements [Gerard Sans] The next episode with Charity Majors is airing on Oct 3rd … Monthly roundup – September 2023 Read More » The post Monthly roundup – September 2023 appeared first on theburningmonk.com.

Many vendors require you to have a static IP address for your application. Such that all requests to their API must originate from an allow-list of IP addresses. In some cases, they even mandate that you use a static IP address for ingress traffic too. So they can communicate with your system through a trusted … Static IP for Lambda: ingress, egress and bypassing the dreaded NAT Gateway Read More » The post Static IP for Lambda: ingress, egress and bypassing the dreaded NAT Gateway appeared first on theb[...]

Step Functions’ state machines come in two flavours. By understanding their strengths and limitations, you can harness the combined power of both to optimize your processes for efficiency and cost. Standard Workflows Optimal for: Business-critical operations like payment processing. Strengths: Suitable for low-throughput scenarios. High maximum duration ensures enough time for retries using exponential backoff. … Step Functions: combine Standard and Express workflows for fun & profit Read More » The post[...]

AWS announced a new feature this week that lets you enable WAF protection for Cognito user pools. And one of the things you can do with this is to implement geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists. Geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists are usually implemented in the frontend as well as the backend APIs. But users (and … How to setup geofencing and IP allow-list for Cognito user pool Read More » The post How to setup geofencing and IP allow-list for Cognito user pool appeared first on theburningmonk.com.