AWS Yarns

A blog about AWS things.

Deploy your own chatGPT-like assistant on AWS

Don't get caught up in the AI Game of Thrones

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 21 November 2023

Use IAM Roles Anywhere With a Custom Certificate Authority

Death to all (most) long-lived API keys!

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 11 July 2022

Implement IAM Permission Boundaries with AWS SSO using Terraform

Least-privilege is what all the cool kids are doing

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 2 May 2022

Migrating a physical DB to unlock a mass migration into AWS - Part 1

If you do the mahi, you get the treats

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 22 April 2022

How I Build Strong AWS Teams

It's all about trust, innit.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 3 March 2022

What the AWS Local Zone Means for New Zealand

TLDR; It's good news.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 21 February 2022

2022: The Year of the AWS Landing Zone

Landing Zones are boring... or are they?

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 16 February 2022

Who Monitors the Monitron?

I do, Right Here

Posted by William Fulton on 3 December 2021

How do you Cost Optimise on AWS Without Tooling?

When the only tool you've got is elbow-grease.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 2 December 2021

Chaos Engineering with the AWS Fault Injection Simluator

Let's delete some production servers!

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 23 November 2021

Continuous Compliance on AWS using the NZISM Conformance Pack

Hey auditors, look, no hands!

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 13 October 2021

Troubleshooting AWS Config Bill Shock

Too much of something good is usually bad.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 14 September 2021

Massively Parallel Machine Learning Inference using AWS Lambda

Is it possible? What about Sagemaker!?

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 20 April 2021

A Script To Disable Security Hub In All Regions

Don't try this at home... Security Hub is cool.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 12 April 2021

Yet Another Immersion Day Post!

With multiple customers this time

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 29 March 2021

Use AWS Client VPN To Access Private Resources

Bastion hosts are so 2020.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 17 March 2021

General AWS Immersion Day for a Wellington Customer

My first AWS Immersion Day for a customer, hosted by AWS

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 15 March 2021

Control Tower Immersion Day for CCL

How do you teach 40 people how to deploy Landing Zones at the same time?

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 1 March 2021

The Evolution of AWS Landing Zones

Where did we come from and what does the future look like?

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 28 November 2020

Why I use AWS Cloud9 for local development

And how you can get started.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 21 November 2020

Deploy a static Blog site quickly on AWS

How quickly can you actually deploy a simple blog site on AWS using CloudFront and S3?

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 13 November 2020

Use Lambda@Edge to handle complex redirect rules with CloudFront

AWS gives you building blocks for maximum flexibility

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 12 June 2019

AWS SAM local – debugging Lambda and API Gateway with Breakpoints - Demo

Don't sacrifice development workflows when you adopt serverless technology.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 29 May 2019

What is your Digital Waste Footprint?

Are you leaving money on the table with your cloud spend?

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 30 July 2018

Slow DoS Attack Mitigation - A Consegna Approach

Read about how we mitigated a slow Denial of Service attack on a customers website.

Posted by Chris McKinnel on 23 July 2018