Aaron VanSledright

Author: Aaron VanSledright

  • Adding a reminder feature to Discord

    As many of you know, I released my Discord Bot Framework the other week. This has prompted me to put sometime into developing new features for the bot’s I manage. I’ve always been a fan of the “remind” functionality that many Reddit communities have. In my Discord, we are often sending media content that I…

  • The Discord Bot Framework

    I’m happy to announce the release of my Discord Bot Framework. A tool that I’ve spent a considerable amount of time working on to help people build and deploy Discord Bots quickly within AWS. Let me first start off by saying I’ve never released a product. I’ve run a service business and I’m a consultant…

  • Product Name Detection with AWS Bedrock & Anthropic Claude

    Well, my AWS bill me a bit larger than normal this month due to testing this script. I thoroughly enjoy utilizing Generative AI to do work for me and I had some spare time to tackle this problem this week. A client sent me a bunch of product images that were not named properly. All…

  • Streamline Your S3 Management: How to Count Small Files Locally with Python

    I recently came across a need to count objects in an S3 bucket that were of particular size. There isn’t a native way to do this within the S3 console so I decided to script it out using Python and the AWS SDK. You can see all of the code on my GitHub. The script…

  • Securing AWS S3 Objects with Python: Implementing SSE-S3 Encryption

    In the cloud-native world, data security is paramount, and securing Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 storage is a critical task for any developer. In this article, we dive into a Python script designed to ensure that all your S3 objects are encrypted using Server-Side Encryption with S3-Managed Keys (SSE-S3). This method provides robust security by…

  • Creating a local “Lex” Environment

    This came up in a conversation I was having so I decided to take a stab at coding something to help. Let’s say you are building an Amazon Web Services chat bot using Lex and you want to test your Lambda logic locally before you deploy to your AWS account. Currently, as far as I…

  • Building a Generative AI Workflow with AWS Bedrock

    I’ve finally been tasked with a Generative AI project to work on. I’ve done this workflow manually with ChatGPT in the past and it works quite well but, for this project, the requirement was to use Amazon Web Services’ new product “AWS Bedrock”. The workflow takes in some code and writes a technical document to…

  • Convert Spotify Links to Youtube Links

    In a continuation of my Discord Bot feature deployment, I found a need to convert Spotify links to YouTube links. I use Youtube music for my music streaming needs and the rest of the Discord uses Spotify. With the help of ChatGPT, I created a script that converts Spotify links to Youtube links! This utilizes…

  • Automated Lambda Testing

    Look, I know there are a bunch of test frameworks that you could use for your Lambda functions. But what if you wanted something simple? I spent an afternoon putting together what I would want in a testing pipeline that returns a simple “Success/Fail” type response to me via Email. An architecture diagram for your…

  • SES Monitoring

    I love AWS. But one thing they don’t do is build complete tools. SES is one of them. I recently started getting emails about high usage for one of the identities that I have set up for SES. I would assume that there was a way to track usage within CloudWatch but for the life…