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Guides, walkthroughs and AWS how-tos for asking your cloud questions in plain English.
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Write to Kinesis Data Streams With AWS SDK v3 (PutRecords)
PutRecord and PutRecords in TypeScript: batching limits, partition keys and hot shards, FailedRecordCount retries, and on-demand vs provisioned costs.
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Run an Athena Query With AWS SDK v3 and Read the Results
A typed Athena helper for Node.js: start a parameterized query, poll with backoff, page through results without the header row and estimate the scan…
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Find EFS File Systems Without a Lifecycle Policy
A TypeScript script that reports each EFS file system’s lifecycle policy and storage by class, estimates the monthly cost and sets a policy behind…
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Find Overprovisioned EBS IOPS on io1 and io2 Volumes
A report-only TypeScript script that compares io1 and io2 provisioned IOPS with 14 days of peak usage and prices lower IOPS or a move…
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Detect CloudFormation Drift Across All Stacks
A read-only TypeScript script that runs drift detection on every CloudFormation stack, lists changed properties and counts resources it can’t check.
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Find ECR Repositories Without Image Scanning and Enable It
A TypeScript AWS SDK v3 script that reports ECR scanning per repository with the newest image’s findings, and adds a registry scanning rule with…
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Find API Gateway Stages Without Access Logging
An AWS SDK v3 script that reports access logs, execution logs, data tracing and X-Ray on every API Gateway stage, and enables access logs…
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Find API Gateway Methods Without Authorization
A read-only AWS SDK v3 script that lists REST methods and HTTP and WebSocket routes with no authorizer, weighed against API keys and resource…
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Find IAM Users With Directly Attached Policies
A read-only AWS SDK v3 script that lists IAM users with managed or inline policies attached to the user, with their groups and candidate…
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Check the AWS Root User for MFA and Access Keys
A read-only AWS SDK v3 script that reports root user MFA, root access keys, signing certificates and recent root sign-ins for one account.
