Category: HowTo

Synth CDK app to Portable CloudFormation (obsolete)

Update 2/7/2022: Read Synth CDK app to Custom Bucket instead. Consulting requires you to work within the client’s parameters. Some clients have internal standards and want you to deliver your white-label CDK app as CloudFormation. Call me old fashioned but…

My CloudFormation IDE

Writing CloudFormation or SAM templates by hand is very powerful, but can also be quite frustrating without a good IDE setup…

Assume Role with MFA

CLI Assume Role with MFA (assume-role-mfa.sh)This script will assume a cross-account role using your MFA device and output the credentials into a named profile. 1234567891011121314151617181920212223#!

Assume Cross Account AWS Role

Unlike an embarrassing Facebook post, developers can’t simply say “That wasn’t me, I got hacked” and expect it all to go away… Sarcasm aside, security without passwords is not only convenient, it keeps the password from landing in the wrong hands.

Cold Transfer in AWS Connect Streams

The Amazon Connect Streams API allows you to create custom interfaces for the soft-phone and provides many functions for interacting with the current connection. It is a powerful set of tools but some of the more sophisticated functions may not be obvious.