#aws#cdk#mixin
CDK Mixin for Deletion Protection
Introduction This post builds on the AWS CDK Ephemeral Stacks Cleanup pattern and focuses...
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#aws#cdk#aurora#drizzle
Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless (Express configuration) with CDK and Drizzle
Introduction This post documents a setup for Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration...
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#aws#cdk#cdknag
Tag log buckets created by AWS CDK for third party tools
Overview How you secure cloud configuration often starts with cdk-nag, but many teams also...
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#aws#cdk#tanstack
Using Server Sent Events (SSE) to sync Tanstack Db from AWS DynamoDB
Introduction As described in Simple example of TanStack DB with DynamoDB on AWS with...
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#aws#cdk#cdknag#cloudformation
Use a customized CDK bootstrap template
Introduction In some cases, the CDK bootstrap resources need changes beyond what's...
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#aws#cdk#tanstack
Simple example of TanStack DB with DynamoDB on AWS with multiple entities
Introduction In Simple example of TanStack DB with DynamoDB on AWS, I describe how to use...
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#aws#cdk#tanstack
Simple example of TanStack DB with DynamoDB on AWS
Introduction In Deploying TanStack Start on AWS with Lambda Function URLs, I describe how...
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#aws#cdk#cloudwatch
Monitor multiple resources using a single CloudWatch Alarm (with CDK)
Introduction CloudWatch Metrics Insights query alarms (aka “multi-metric alarms”) let one...
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#aws#cdk#cdknotifier#cloudformation
Use cdk-notifier to check CloudFormation predeployment validations in pull requests
Overview This post builds on the previous example on using cdk-notifier to compare changes...
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#aws#cdk#tanstack
Deploy TanStack Start serverless on AWS
Introduction This guide demonstrates how to deploy a TanStack Start application on AWS...
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#aws#cdk#lambda
Encrypt All Lambda Environment Variables with AWS CDK Aspects/Mixins
Introduction If you need to ensure that all AWS Lambda environment variables are encrypted...
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#aws#cdk#cdknag
Granular statement cdk-nag AwsSolutions-IAM5 Suppressions
Overview cdk-nag’s AwsSolutions-IAM5 rule is one of the most frequent findings in...
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#aws#cdk
Cleanup Resources from Ephemeral Stacks in AWS CDK with Aspects and Property Injectors
Overview When using AWS CDK, Aspects allow us to apply a RemovalPolicy.DESTROY to all...
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#aws#cdk#cdknag
Suppress cdk-nag findings for custom resource singleton lambda globally
Overview When using AWS CDK with custom resources, CDK creates a singleton Lambda function...
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#awsapplicationsignals#cdk#cloudwatch#transactionsearch
Config AWS Cloudwatch Application Signals Transaction Search with CDK
Update 2025-06-18: Provisioning with CloudFormation Recently, AWS added native...
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#aws#awsapplicationsignals#cdk#cloudwatch
AWS Application Signals for Node.js Lambda with CDK
Update 2025-06-18: Provisioning with CloudFormation It can now also be configured using...
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#aws#apigateway#sigv4
Calling IAM authenticated API Gateway with different HTTP clients
Use case API Gateways can be secured with IAM authentication. This means that the client...
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#cdk#ec2#vscode#awssystemsmanager
Run vs code on a private AWS ec2 instance without ssh (with AWS CDK examples)
Use case You have a private EC2 instance in your AWS account and you want to edit files...
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#aws#prowler#docker
Scan all your AWS SSO accounts with Prowler
Use case You want to run prowler scans for different AWS accounts, which AWS SSO...
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#aws#cdk#cdknotifier
Consideration about cdk-notifier and Tags
Use case As described here Use cdk-notifier to compare changes in pull requests, the...
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#aws#cdk#cdknotifier
Use cdk-notifier to compare changes in pull requests
Use case Especially in serverless environments, features will be created with ephemeral...
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#aws#steampipe#docker
Use Steampipe to select your AWS resources across SSO accounts with SQL
Use case You are in charge of several AWS accounts within an AWS Organisation and need to...
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#aws#awscdk#projen#zod
Example how to use zod with CDK serverless v2
The AWS CDK Serverless Toolsuite from Thorsten Hoeger helps, among others, to deploy an API Gateway...
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#aws#awsathena#awscdk#awsdynamodb
Example how to trigger a Dynamodb export and create an Athena saved query with CDK
In this post is described how to get the data to analyze the changes in the dynamodb data. This post...
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#aws#awskinesis#awsathena#awscdk
Example how to visualize DynamoDB item changes with Quicksight (S3 source) created with CDK
This post is about how to visualize the DynamoDb data changes with Quicksight. It’s an extension of...
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#aws#awsathena#awscdk
Example how to create Athena saved queries with CDK
In this post is a example of a Athena query to get the the current data of the DynamoDb table. This...
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#aws#awskinesis#awsathena#awscdk
Example how to analyze DynamoDB item changes with Kinesis and Athena created with CDK
This is the same like described here, but instead of terraform it’s build with CDK. To bootstrap the...
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Example how to analyze DynamoDB item changes with Kinesis and Athena created with Terraform
Why? The data of a DynamoDb table is not so easy to analyze as a RDS with e.g., the...
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#github#githubactions
GitHub actions example for automatic release drafts and changelog.md creation
What are GitHub actions? That is well described in this post by Brian Douglas. He has also...
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#aws#grafana#terraform
How to setup AWS Billing metrics in Grafana Cloud via Terraform
Why Terraform? In this post I described how to display AWS Billing metrics in Grafana...
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