Aaron VanSledright

Category: Cloud Architecting

  • Converting DrawIO Diagrams to Terraform

    I’m going to start this post of by saying that I need testers. People to test this process from an interface perspective as well as a data perspective. I’m limited on the amount of test data that I have to put through the process. With that said, I spent my Thanksgiving Holiday writing code, building…

  • API For Pre-signed URLs

    Pre-signed URL’s are used for downloading objects from AWS S3 buckets. I’ve used them many times in the past for various reasons but this idea was a new one. A proof of concept for an API that would create the pre-signed URL and return it to the user. This solution utilizes an API Gateway and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Building a Discord Bot with Python and AWS

    I’m a member of a lot of Discord servers. The one I participate in most is one with my brothers and our friends. In this server, we joke around a lot about people posting off-topic messages in the various text channels and we give them fake “warnings”. I decided to take this a step further…

  • Moving AWS Cloudfront Logs to DynamoDB

    I think its pretty obvious that I love DynamoDB. It has become one of my favorite AWS Services and I use it almost every day at work and am getting better at using it for my personal projects as well. I had a client approach me about getting logs from a Cloudfront Distribution. Cloudfront has…

  • Automating Security Group Rule Removal

    I’m using an Amazon Web Services Security Group as a way to allow traffic into an EC2 instance for the instance’s users. The users can give themselves access through a web interface that I wrote for them. Maybe I’ll cover that in a different post. I found recently that the Security Group was nearing its…

  • EC2 Reservation Notification

    I realized today that I haven’t updated my EC2 reservations recently. Wondering why I never did this I came to understand that there was no way that I was getting notified that the reservations were expiring. I spent the day putting together a script that would look through my reservations, assess the time of their…