I recently passed the 2019 version of the AWS Security Specialty exam, which is one of their deep-dive technical certs entirely focused around building and running secure systems on AWS, including things like DDoS resiliency and encryption. I've used a lot of different resources for this so I thought I'd bring together a list of … Continue reading AWS Security Specialty Exam Prep
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Application Load Balancers are an incredibly useful component to use as a building block on AWS - they can provide not just load balancing, but also allow you to do super simple TLS termination (where you decrypt HTTPS traffic on the load balancer, reducing the load on your servers) or put a WAF (Web Application … Continue reading Using AWS Application Load Balancers With Static IPs
Whilst working with Amazon's object storage S3 service recently, it occurred to me that there were a lot of different options for encrypting objects in your buckets, and that people new to the service or AWS might find it difficult to understand the differences between them or know which one to use. There are two … Continue reading Understanding AWS S3 Encryption
Last week, I headed down to London for the 2018 AWS Summit. AWS Summits are free events that Amazon run to try and educate people about their cloud, and the benefits of running your workloads on it. Hosted at the ExCeL in the Docklands, I believe the London summit is the largest in the EU … Continue reading AWS Summit London 2018
