S3

Yes, S3 now encrypts objects by default, but your job is not done yet

Update 06/04/2023: AWS announced that S3 now enables the “block public access” and “disable ACL” settings for all new buckets. It’s great to see these being enabled by default. But the points I raised in the post still stand. The default encryption (SSE-S3) only protects against situations when someone has stolen data from AWS servers/disks …

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aws x-ray and lambda : the good, the bad and the ugly

AWS announced general availability of AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray back in May. It’s taken me a while to try it out, and whilst I see plenty of values I think its current limitations significantly restricts its usefulness in a complex system. I found Lambda-specific documentations to be fragmented and I had to rely …

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Yubl’s road to Serverless architecture – building a scalable push notification system

part 1: overview part 2: testing and CI/CD part 3: ops part 4: building a scalable notification system <- you’re here part 5: building a better recommendation system Just before Yubl’s untimely demise we did an interesting piece of work to redesign the system for sending targeted push notifications to our users to improve retention. The …

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Yubl’s road to Serverless architecture – overview

part 1: overview <- you’re here part 2: testing and CI/CD part 3: ops part 4: building a scalable notification system part 5: building a better recommendation system Since Yubl’s closure quite a few people have asked about the serverless architecture we ended up with and some of the things we have learnt along the …

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Working with S3 folders using the .Net AWS SDK

If you’ve been using S3 client in the AWS SDK for .Net you might have noticed that there are no methods that let you interact with the folders in a bucket. As it turns out, S3 does not support folders in the conventional sense*, everything is still a key value pair, but tools such as …

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