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Unlock the Hidden Power of VPC Sharing in AWS

As rightly stated here by Aidan Steele (AWS Hero), VPC Sharing appears to be the forgotten superpower.

AWS Config Rules Blessed with Cloudformation cfn-guard Support!

They said it was coming, and here it is! Support for defining custom cfn-guard rules for AWS Config via Cloudformation.

AWS GP3 Volumes

AWS GP3 Volumes AWS made the following announcement at Reinvent2020

AWS Managed Prefix Lists

AWS Managed Prefix Lists Some time ago AWS released a new feature called Customer Managed Prefix Lists.

The Challenge Terraform is a great product for managing infrastructure on AWS however many people start by creating an iam user and sharing access keys into configuration files. This is really bad from a security aspect as these often get checked into version control and even worse in a public repo.

Build a Terraform Community Org on github Enterprise

Infrastructure As Code Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is great, people can knock up some Terraform and smash out some stacks in next to no time, delivering value to the business, however there is a side effect to this. Regular IT guys and gals are now evolving from sysadmins into… wait for it…. developers, with the power of Domain Admin or root credentials!

Cloudformation FirewallPolicy UPDATE_FAILED

While I have a fond love for Cloudformation, sometimes I find myself banging my head against a wall when trying to get past an error.

Config Conundrum

AWS Config At our organisation we use custom config rules to help us achieve near real-time compliance and remediation.

Fix github-actions 'Resource not accessible by integration' Error: Complete Guide

If you’re working with github-actions and encountering the “Resource not accessible by integration” error, you’re dealing with one of the most common github-actions permission issues. This error typically appears when your workflow lacks the necessary permissions to perform operations like creating pull requests, updating issues, or accessing repository resources.

Getting started with cfn-guard

Update Link to official AWS blog post here A fair few policy-as-code tools are popping up these days. This post looks at getting started with cfn-guard to parse AWS Config Resource JSON outputs.

Blog Posts

Unlock the Hidden Power of VPC Sharing in AWS

AWS Config Rules Blessed with Cloudformation cfn-guard Support!

AWS GP3 Volumes

AWS Managed Prefix Lists

Bootstrap Terraform on AWS

Build a Terraform Community Org on github Enterprise

Cloudformation FirewallPolicy UPDATE_FAILED

Config Conundrum

Fix github-actions 'Resource not accessible by integration' Error: Complete Guide

Getting started with cfn-guard

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