AWS & Terraform

How to: AWS Service Endpoint for S3 / DynamoDB

This Again? A few months back I published an article reviewing the different ways to pass traffic between a Lambda in a private subnet and…
AWS & Terraform

How to: AWS Service Endpoints via Terraform for fun and profit

Recently I found myself designing a system that had AWS Lambda functions inside a private VPC. But I needed to pass a payload from the…

AWS IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

From the AWS “Whats New” news feed: Posted On: Jul 11, 2019 The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is now generally available in TypeScript and…
Terraform

FIX: Terraform + AWS: InvalidVPCNetworkStateFault

While working with Terraform and AWS recently I ran into an error that did not seem to have much information about it. After about a…
Terraform

Terraform: EC2 access to CodeCommit without HTTPS or SSH credentials.

The Problem I needed a way for a EC2 instance to clone a CodeCommit repository without using HTTPS credentials or a SSH key. Specifically I…

How to fix “failed to delete stack: Role … is invalid or cannot be assumed”

How to fix the "failed to delete stack: Role [...] is invalid or cannot be assumed " error when using AWS CloudFormation.

AWS is the US Navy of the Cloud…

The US Navy has a policy of not staying one step ahead of it's peers, but two. AWS seems to be doing the same.