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The us-east-1 outage of 2021

December 7th 2021 saw an outage in the us-east-1 region of AWS. The outage had a significant impact, not just on AWS, but for many customers all around the world.

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Security Hygiene

Security hygiene is the practice of maintaining a computer system, by ensuring the basic controls are executed on a regular basis. It is, at its core, a precautionary practice, sometimes may be seen as mundane, yet still critical to the safe operation of your IT system.

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Password policies

Almost every company on the face of the planet has them... Password policies. They describe how long and complex they need to be, and how often you need to change them, much to the dismay of of your users. Let's talk about passwords. In this article, we will only cover the authentication side of the security model.

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Hosting a static website on AWS

To try and keep my hosting costs down, I decided to redevelop AWSSecurity.info and publish it as a mkdocs site, instead of WordPress. This is allowing me to host the site on S3 with CloudFront, rather than keeping an EC2 instance active all the time.

In this post, I will share with you details of how I achieved this.

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  • 7 min read

Things I don't like about AWS

Last Updated: 2024-06-09

Full disclaimer – I am an Amazon Web Services fanboy. I love their cloud offering and I proudly hold 3 AWS certifications. Through my day job, I am also getting exposed to Azure. Yes, I know – Azure is a swear word amongst Amazonians, but the reality is that many companies do dabble in multi-cloud strategies. Some cloud providers are better at some things than others, and some features are just nicer than others, so with that, I decided to start putting a list together of some of the cool (and not so cool) features I have spotted on both platforms.