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Cross Account Route 53 records custom resource in CDK

Jeremy Ritchie, Jul 11, 2023, AWS CDK Typescript Route53 Cross-Account Records Advanced

Recently, I encountered a scenario where I needed to create a public SSL certificate (AWS ACM) in account B and validate it within a hosted zone in account A.

Website Heartbeat Monitoring using Cloudwatch Synthetics Canaries

Jeremy Ritchie, Jun 5, 2023, AWS CDK Cloudwatch Synthetics Canary Uptime Monitor Intermediate

I recently made some changes to my website that resulted in an outage. The outage went unnoticed for over 12 hours before it was noticed and shortly resolved.

AWS Secrets Manager automatic rotation on IAM User Access Keys

Jeremy Ritchie, Feb 20, 2023, AWS CDK Secrets Manager IAM Security Access Key Advanced

AWS Secrets Manager automatic rotation is a criminally underused feature.

Secure GitHub CI/CD to AWS with OIDC

Jeremy Ritchie, Feb 13, 2023, AWS CI/CD GitHub OIDC Security Advanced

I’m a DevOps Engineer but yet my personal website does not have CI/CD - Let’s fix that.

Adding a REST API to a static site

Jeremy Ritchie, Dec 13, 2022, AWS CDK APIGateway Lambda Hugo Static Site Advanced

I’ve been wanting to add a ‘contact me’ page to my blog for a while.