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Creating a small dynamic website with CloudFormation

Feb 19, 2021 · 9 min read · Every now and then I want to create a small private space on the internet; a unique domain name, a couple of pages of text, some images and maybe one or two dynamic pages. There are obviously many solutions out there that allow this (for free, with s...

Better Lambdas with pip packages in CloudFormation

Feb 16, 2021 · 10 min read · After writing about how to create AWS Lambda Layers based on pip packages, I set out to make writing lambda functions in CloudFormation a bit easier. In the official CloudFormation AWS::Lambda::Function you either must upload your functions as zipfi...

AWS Custom Resources security “trap”

Feb 15, 2021 · 15 min read · AWS CloudFormation allows the use of Custom Resources. These are great if one has to do some things outside AWS (say you create a stack and you want as part of the stack also create a github repository with a bunch of access rights). In practice howe...

AWS Lambda (python) with packages through pip (in CloudFormation)

Feb 10, 2021 · 7 min read · I absolutely love CloudFormation as a tool for creating small and large items on AWS. Having code-based infrastructure, of easily maintaining your system in git, seeing differences, etc is pure joy. There are however (many) times when CloudFormation ...