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], [...]

An interesting question came up in a conversation today: “How should I manage the Route53 DNS records in a multi-account environment?” Suppose you have configured an AWS Organization with different accounts for dev, staging and production environments. An[...]

I have been working on a large AppSync project for a client these past few months. The initial version of the app was built in just a few weeks, but the client has commissioned additional features and the project has kept growing. At the time of writing, [...]

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Presently sponsored by Thundra: Built for straightforward observability, Thundra lets you analyze serverless architectures with correlated metrics, logs, and traces with no code change. Thundra’s full tracing ability combines distributed and local tracing[...]