Tag Archives: AWS

AWS User group Ukraine: AWS Tech Conference
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1 October 2021

Boom! Get ready for a virtual AWS Tech Conference from AWS User Group Ukraine!  Conference program: 6 comprehensive presentations  6 workshops with AWS instructors  AMA with AWS experts  1500 online attendees  rewards for best questions  The speaker line-up will consist of an AWS team from all over the world that’s why the presentation will be… Read More: AWS User group Ukraine: AWS Tech Conference0 (0) »

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AWS: disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for Application LoadBalancer
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27 September 2021

If check any of a freshly created AWS Application LoadBalancer with a certificate from the AWS Certificate Manager, and with an HTTPS Listener’s default settings you’ll see the B grade: The main point of the SSL Labs is the support of the deprecated encryption versions – TLS 1.0 and 1.1. AWS LoadBalancer SecurityPolicy and TLS… Read More: AWS: disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for Application LoadBalancer0… »

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AWS: Cost Explorer – costs checking on the CloudWatch Logs example
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7 September 2021

This post isn’t an overview of the AWS Cost Explorer service, but just a quick example of how to detect costs for your AWS account and its services. So, when I came back from the vacation, I noticed that we’ve paid more than usually for the AWS CloudWatch for August – almost 50 dollars per… Read More: AWS: Cost Explorer – costs checking on the CloudWatch Logs… »

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AWS: Lambda functions – an overview, and integration with AWS API Gateway
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18 August 2021

AWS Lambda allows running a code without the need to create and manage servers, also known as the serverless approach. AWS Lambda will determine how much CPU and memory is needed to run a function, and when it’s necessary it will perform autoscaling. A code to be running is organized in lambda functions and can be… Read More: AWS: Lambda functions – an overview, and integration with AWS… »

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AWS: Route53 Private Hosted Zones — hiding domains from the Internet
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26 July 2021

Private Hosted Zone in AWS Route53 allows to limit access to DNS records of a domain, thus making it inaccessible for the DNS Enumeration (or DNS brute-force), when an attacker checks for available records in a domain to know endpoints list to check them for vulnerabilities. For such attacks, there is a lot of utilities… Read More: AWS: Route53 Private Hosted Zones — hiding domains from the… »

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AWS: WAF WebACL logging and Logz.io integration
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22 July 2021

In the first post – AWS: Web Application Firewall overview, configuration, and its monitoring – we spoke about its main components, created a WebACL and Rules for it, and did basic monitoring. Also, we’ve configured WebACL’s logs collection with AWS Kinesis, but now it’s time to see them Logz.io, as CloudWatch Logs isn’t available for… Read More: AWS: WAF WebACL logging and Logz.io integration0 (0) »

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AWS: Web Application Firewall overview, configuration, and its monitoring
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19 July 2021

AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is an AWS service for monitoring incoming traffic to secure a web application for suspicious activity like SQL injections. Can be attached to an AWS Application LoadBalancer, AWS CloudFront distribution, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS AppSync GraphQL API. In case of finding any request that sits WAF’s rules, it will… Read More: AWS: Web Application Firewall overview, configuration, and its monitoring0 (0) »

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AWS: CloudTrail overview and integration with CloudWatch and Opsgenie
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15 July 2021

AWS CloudTrail is a service for auditing AWS accounts events and is enabled by default. It saves all actions that were done by a user, IAM role, or an AWS service via AWS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. CloudTrail will write information about every API call, log in to the system, services events, and… Read More: AWS: CloudTrail overview and integration with CloudWatch and Opsgenie0 (0) »

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AWS: Simple Email Service Bounce rate and monitoring with and Prometheus
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14 July 2021

Recently, AWS blocked our AWS Simple Email Service because of its low bounce rate. This can be checked in the AWS SES > Reputation Dashboard, our account currently has Under review status: After we’ve connected AWS Tech Support, they enabled it back, but we must solve the issue asap, and have to monitor AWS SES… Read More: AWS: Simple Email Service Bounce rate and monitoring with and… »

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