Some notes on my trip to the 2018 AWS re:Invent conference, and thoughts for next time.

How I used AWS hosted ElasticSearch for ad-hoc analysis of ELB logs.

Details of how I setup Capital One’s Cloud Custodain at work, including our monitoring, logging and policy preprocessing.

Pre-authorized AWS Console login URLs with limited permissions allow immediate investigation from notifications.

Project I created that uses Python and Terraform to setup an AWS API Gateway instance to receive webhooks, and enqueue their content in SQS queues via Lambda.

some complaints about Terraform’s lack of functions and variable default values

Initial release of AwsLimitChecker, a tool to check your AWS usage against service limits and Trusted Advisor.

How I wrote isolated acceptance tests for Netflix Ice Puppet installation using a locally-backed S3 API server.

Some tips, tricks and non-intuitive information about working with AWS CloudFormation and RDS snapshots.

Some scripts to watch the status of Jenkins jobs and CloudFormation updates, and send Pushover notifications.