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Protect Your AWS Root User Without Locking Yourself Out

22 July 2026·1210 words·6 mins

Code Snippets Aws Iam Security Root-User Mfa Organizations Best-Practices

Three Ways to Stop Using Long-Term AWS Credentials

21 July 2026·1741 words·9 mins

Code Snippets Aws Iam Security Identity-Center Oidc Ci-Cd Github-Actions Gitlab

Personal AWS Guardrails for AI-Assisted Projects

20 July 2026·1696 words·8 mins

Aws Scp Cost-Optimization Ai-Agents Organizations Step-Functions Cloudformation

An Off-Switch for NAT Gateway and ALB

13 March 2026·1435 words·7 mins

Aws Lambda Cloudformation Cost-Optimization Devops

Why I Now Use uv for Everything Python

1 March 2026·1397 words·7 mins

Python Uv Developer-Tools Mcp Lambda Toolchain

Add Google Sign-In to Amazon Cognito with an Email Allowlist

28 February 2026·1293 words·7 mins

Aws Cognito Google Oauth Pkce Cloudformation Authentication Passwordless Javascript Lambda

Configure Passkey Authentication with Amazon Cognito Managed Login

21 February 2026·1406 words·7 mins

Code Snippets Aws Cognito Passkeys Webauthn Authentication Cloudformation Oauth Pkce Passwordless Javascript

Can VPC Lattice replace AWS Transit Gateway?

28 August 2023·129 words·1 min

Opinion Aws Networking VPC Lattice Transit Gateway Landing Zone Microservices

Is your CI/CD pipeline ready for 2023?

22 November 2022·1991 words·10 mins

Opinion Ci-Cd Devops Automation Continuous Delivery Cloud Testing Microservices Infrastructure as Code

12 Things I wish I knew when I started with AWS

24 September 2022·88 words·1 min

Opinion Aws Security Cost Optimisation Availability Zones Iam Best-Practices Beginners