Secure communications in defence and other industries is increasingly critical, particularly when threats are evolving ever more rapidly. This article discusses the AWS Wickr (hereafter referred to a “Wickr”) service, and how the DoD (Department of Defense) have used it to provide secure communications. I wrote this article after attending Continue Reading
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Hands-On with AWS Skills Builder – Part II
A further look at AWS Skill Builder, with a view of what has changed over the last 4 months and a conclusion on who AWS Skill Builder may be relevant to.
First Look: AWS SNS Message Data Protection
AWS have released a new Beta feature for SNS called “AWS SNS Message Data Protection”. This post explains how this feature can be used.
Hands-On with AWS Skills Builder
AWS Skill Builder is a new offering from AWS, allowing access to online training courses, hands-on AWS Labs, as well as free training courses. This post provided an initial perspective on that service.
Using Custom RDS Databases
A discussion how Custom RDS Databases can help customers with specific RDBMS features they miss in the fully-managed AWS Offering.
Using AWS SNS with Private HTTPS Endpoints
A post on how the security-conscious can build a proxy to allow SNS to hit private HTTPS endpoints. Includes Source Code.
Automatically Logging S3 File Entries to CloudWatch
Explains how we can take files hitting an S3 bucket, calculate the delta for those files (i.e. new rows that have been added), and then split the new entries into individual messages for consumption by CloudWatch.
Includes Python Source-Code.
AWS Architect Professional (Recertification)
Advice for those re-sitting their AWS Architect Professional Exam, based on my own trials and tribulations!
Building Docker Images using AWS Tooling
For some time now, I have been frustrated with the limited means by which you can add your own Libraries to AWS Lambda. I was therefore thrilled when I learned that AWS Lambda now supported the use of custom images!
This post provides step-by-step guidance on how to get started.
Row Level Security for S3 Data on Redshift Spectrum – Part II
In the previous article of this 2-part blog, I outlined how Row-Level security can be implemented using Amazon Spectrum and Redshift.
This post deals with how tables and schemas can be created manually as part of row-level security.