AWS announced a new feature this week that lets you enable WAF protection for Cognito user pools. And one of the things you can do with this is to implement geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists. Geo-fencing and IP allow/deny lists are usually implemented in the frontend as well as the backend APIs. But users (and …
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You might have encountered this issue when using Amplify to host your single-page applications. An image in the public folder would show up perfectly fine when running locally but it was not found on the live site after Amplify deployed your change. Curiously, this only happens with some images – jpeg, avif, webp… The reason …
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Update 04/08/2022: turns out there are some valid reasons (analytics and potentially SEO) for redirecting from the apex domain to www. Please see comments from Michael Hart, Mike Lamb and Tyler Love to my tweet here for more details. I have used Amplify to host all my single-page applications, including the newly revamped sites …
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I recently rebuilt the landing page for both AppSync Masterclass and Production-Ready Serverless. The sites were hosted on Shifter (think serverless WordPress) and Wix respectively. In both cases, the performance of the sites (especially on mobile) left a lot to be desired. A large portion of the user traffics to these sites comes from mobile. …
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As I rebuild the landing page for the AppSync Masterclass I wanted to give this boring “about me” section a facelift. After taking inspiration from other landing pages, I decided to go with something like this. Notice the gradient effect towards the bottom of each image? It provides a nice backdrop and contrast for the …
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As I rebuild the landing page for the AppSync Masterclass, I wanted to add a zoom-in effect to some of the images, like this: After some googling and a bit of experimentation, this is what I ended up with. <figure class=”img-hover-zoom”> <figcaption>…</figcaption> <img src=”…”> </figure> When it’s hovered over, the <img> tag would scale up. …
I recently looked at the AppSync Masterclass‘s landing page on PageSpeed Insight and didn’t like what I saw… It’s hosted by Shifter and was straightforward to set up. Shifter offers a kind of serverless WordPress and promised to combine WordPress’s convenience with the performance of statically-generated websites. But there are a large number of CSS …
How Lambda pricing works When it comes to cost, Lambda charges you based on the amount of memory you allocate to the function and how long this function runs for by the millisecond. And it also charges you a fixed fee of 20 cents per million invocations. source: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing There can be other costs involved, …
An interesting question came up on the AppSync Masterclass forum, and it highlights a common way you can get into CloudFormation circular dependencies. In the CloudFormation stack, there is an AppSync API, which uses a Cognito User Pool for authentication and authorization. When a user signs up, the app should fire an update on a …
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As a consultant, I have helped a lot of clients with their architecture [1] and built a couple of serverless applications for clients from scratch. And the no. 1 question I get about serverless is around testing. “How should I test these cloud-hosted functions?” “Should I use local simulators?” “How do I run these in …
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