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Ontario, Canada: Toronto, Niagara, and the Tri-Cities
Five days across Ontario, downtown Toronto, Niagara Falls, University of Waterloo, and a kayak on the Grand River, capped off with a lot of very good food.
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Scanning S3 Uploads for Malware with Amazon GuardDuty
How we replaced a self-managed antivirus stack with GuardDuty's built-in Malware Protection for S3, and the upload-to-quarantine pipeline it now runs on.
A Secure SFTP Setup with AWS Transfer Family and Network Firewall
A VPC design that fronts AWS Transfer Family SFTP servers with AWS Network Firewall, so only allowlisted IPs ever reach port 22, plus the identity provider and hardening choices that go with it.
Billerica, MA: A Few Food Spots Worth Trying
Fresh-pressed juice, a seasonal tasting menu, a four-room craft beverage hall, and a few other stops from a run of meals in and around Billerica.
A Day Trip to Catalina Island
Sunrise on the ferry, a golf cart at your own pace, parasailing over the coastline, and a herd of bison, one packed day out of Long Beach and back.
Upgrading EC2 from M4.xlarge to M8i.xlarge
What we learned upgrading a long-running Windows EC2 instance four hardware generations at once, the AD outage it caused, and how we'd plan it differently next time.
A Foundational AWS Architecture for IoT Device Workflows
A starting-point architecture for taking data off an IoT device and turning it into something you can query, monitor, and hand back to customers.