When you use Twilio SendGrid for sending emails, you have two options to verify your sender addresses: If you select the first option, you need to confirm you have access to that address by clicking on the confirmation link that will be sent to that address. Domain authentication, however, requires Read more…
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) provides an extra layer of security to your accounts and helps prevent unauthorized access, even if a user’s access key is compromised. It’s fairly straightforward to add MFA to use AWS Management Console, which is highly recommended. It involves a few more steps when using the CLI, Read more…
If you are working with AWS, it’s considered a good practice to rotate AWS access keys. When working with AWS resources, I try to use role-based access controls, but it’s not always possible to stay in the AWS ecosystem. At the very least, I use my IAM user credentials locally Read more…
In this tutorial, you will learn how to host a website with AWS services: Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. Introduction AWS is a complete cloud platform offering hundreds of services. You can build very complex architectures for your applications with it. However, it’s not only for big projects. If your Read more…
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is Amazon’s object storage service. It has lots of uses and integrates nicely with other AWS services when you need to store data. One thing it’s not meant to be used is publicly sharing your files. File sharing services such as Box.com, Dropbox.com or Read more…
This article shows you how to host a WordPress website on AWS using Amazon Lightsail. AWS offers multiple ways of running applications. One of the most versatile services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), where you can create virtual machines. The thing about EC2 is they may be overwhelming for Read more…
By enabling Function URLs, you can now access Lambda Public URLs. Lambda is AWS’s Function-as-a-Service(FaaS) service that gives us a serverless and event-driven compute service. Lambda functions can play an essential role in a microservice architecture. However, it had one significant limitation until recently: You couldn’t invoke a Lambda function Read more…