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Guides, walkthroughs and AWS how-tos for asking your cloud questions in plain English.
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Send and Receive SQS Messages With AWS SDK v3 in TypeScript
A working producer and consumer for Amazon SQS in TypeScript: batching, long polling, deletes, visibility heartbeats, FIFO queues and the IAM actions.
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Configure Retry and Timeout Settings in AWS SDK for JavaScript v3
The defaults, the knobs and the traps: maxAttempts, retry modes, NodeHttpHandler timeouts, throwOnRequestTimeout, abort signals and Lambda deadlines.
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Find and Delete Old RDS Manual Snapshots
A TypeScript script that lists manual RDS and Aurora snapshots older than N days and deletes them only behind an explicit flag.
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Find IAM Access Keys Older Than 90 Days or Never Used
A TypeScript script that flags IAM access keys older than 90 days or unused for 45, and can deactivate them behind an explicit flag.
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Find IAM Users Without MFA Using AWS SDK v3
A read-only TypeScript script that lists every IAM user, checks for a console password and MFA devices, and flags console users without MFA.
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Find Unused Load Balancers in AWS With No Healthy Targets
A read-only AWS SDK v3 script that flags Application and Network Load Balancers with no targets, no healthy targets or no traffic in 14…
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Find Idle NAT Gateways Costing You Money (AWS SDK v3)
A read-only AWS SDK v3 script that reports NAT gateways with no routes or no traffic in the last 14 days, and what each…
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Set CloudWatch Log Retention for All Log Groups (SDK v3)
A dry-run-first AWS SDK v3 script that finds CloudWatch Logs log groups set to never expire and applies a retention period you choose.
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Convert EBS gp2 Volumes to gp3 With AWS SDK v3
A dry-run-first AWS SDK v3 script that plans and applies gp2 to gp3 EBS volume changes without losing performance, with the monthly saving per…
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Find Lambda Functions on Deprecated Runtimes (AWS SDK v3)
A read-only AWS SDK v3 script that lists Lambda functions on deprecated or soon-to-be-deprecated runtimes across all enabled regions.
