thepawan.devI'm Now an AWS Community Builder — Here's What That MeansA few days ago, I received an email I'd been hoping for: I've been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program under the Dev Tools category. In this post, I want to share what the program is, why18h ago·4 min read
thepawan.devLevel Up Your Cloud Security: My Playbook for DevSecOps Acceleration with AWS LZAIntroduction: The Quest for Secure and Agile Cloud Operations Let's be honest, scaling cloud operations is exciting, but keeping everything secure and agile as you grow? That’s where the real challenge begins. Juggling multiple AWS accounts, ensuring...May 13, 2025·18 min read
thepawan.devAutomating AWS EC2 CloudWatch Agent Monitoring & Email Alerting with Lambda and CDKEnsuring that the CloudWatch Agent is installed and running on all EC2 instances is crucial for complete observability. In this guide, we’ll explore why monitoring the CloudWatch Agent matters, why you should alert on missing/stopped agents, and how ...May 2, 2025·13 min read
thepawan.devAlerting for AWS EC2 Instances Not Managed by SSM Using AWS Config and CDKMonitoring your EC2 instances to ensure they’re managed by AWS Systems Manager (SSM) is crucial for security, compliance, and smooth operations. In this post, we’ll explain why SSM-managed instances are so important, how instances can become “unmanag...Apr 19, 2025·21 min read
thepawan.devGoodbye Bastion, Hello Zero-Trust: Our Journey to Simplified RDS AccessConnecting to a private AWS database shouldn’t feel like hacking through a jungle of jump boxes and VPNs. In our team’s early days, though, that was our reality. This post is a candid look at how we improved the developer experience and security of a...Apr 9, 2025·21 min read
