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@forrestbrazeal: thank you for *getting* me.
Everyone else: read the whole article, it’s great.
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Aidan W Steele
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Aidan W Steele
@__steele
I try to tweet novel things about AWS.“Shit-poster extraordinaire” according to @LastWeekInAWS. He/him. AWS Serverless Hero
- After using AWS for ~14 years, I've internalised a handful of design patterns that I try to apply to my own software. I'm keen to know if it's the same for other folks. Roughly: tags, IDs (thrice), limits, pagination. (I'm not going to use the thread emoji)
- Oh my god. 13 years after I sign up for AWS it finally happened to me: my first terrifying bill. $1300. 😱 I’d been playing with Control Tower and set up a handful of accounts. Forgot about it for a month. Turns out it deploys a LOT of NAT gateways.
- For a personal project on AWS it can feel silly to pay $16.40/mo for a load balancer in front of a $2.70/mo container, just to get TLS termination and zero-downtime deployments. Try API GW instead. It’s much cheaper, but I rarely see people doing this awsteele.com/blog/2022/10/1…
- Well this is rather exciting! I’m an AWS Hero now 🎉The #AWS Heroes inspire, uplift, and motivate the global #AWScommunity. 👩💻☁️👨💻 Today, we’re excited to announce and recognize the newest Heroes in 2023! #CloudComputing 👏 go.aws/3FdjVpw
00:00 - Very exciting news: AWS have submitted a PR (the first of a few to come) to Envoy to enable Lambda functions as targets in App Mesh. This will be huge for enabling a seamless transition to and from containers, instances, etc.
- I regret to inform that I am extremely back on my bullshit. I've been thinking about connectivity in unusual places. And I got to thinking: can I establish bidirectional connectivity over the Internet between two EC2 instances in private subnets without a third-party relay?
- Replying to @__steeleOk I blogged about it. That's how excited I am. 1. Deploy this CFN template 2. Write this GHA workflow 3. Never worry about IAM users again awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/1…
- What's the silliest use for 281 trillion IP addresses? I made a thing that uses the new-ish AWS EC2 support for assigning IPv6 prefixes to EC2 instances. You can only connect to the instance when the IP ends in a TOTP 6 digit authenticator code. How/why:
- This afternoon I've been playing with an idea: adding OpenTelemetry to IaC tools (e.g. Terraform here) to get a visual insight into what takes the most time to provision. Here you can see TF needs to call CreateFunction four times before the IAM role becomes consistent
- Are you still using API Gateway? That is soooo first half of November 2021. All the cool kids are using lambda.CreateFunctionUrlConfig() …gf.lambda-url.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- When AWS launched container image support for Lambda, I saw people complain that it wasn't as nice as Google Cloud Run - which runs a containerised webapp with zero changes. I made serverlessish to fix that. Run the same images in Lambda as you do in ECS. github.com/glassechidna/s…
- Does anyone know why AWS KMS seems to also be called the Trent Service? Who's Trent?
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