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Guides, walkthroughs and AWS how-tos for asking your cloud questions in plain English.
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Extract Text From PDFs and Images With Amazon Textract and SDK v3
Pull text out of images and multi-page PDFs with Textract in TypeScript: sync and async APIs, NextToken paging, PAGE/LINE/WORD blocks, IAM and prices.
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Query DynamoDB With PartiQL in AWS SDK v3 (ExecuteStatement)
SQL-like reads and writes on DynamoDB with ExecuteStatementCommand: parameters, paging, conditional updates, batches, transactions and IAM.
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Find Overprovisioned RDS Allocated Storage
A TypeScript report comparing RDS allocated storage with 30 days of FreeStorageSpace, with a target size, monthly savings and gp3 notes.
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Find S3 Cross-Region Replication Rules and What They Cost
A TypeScript report of every S3 replication rule, its destination and Region, RTC and storage class, with a monthly cost estimate per rule.
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Check Lambda Reserved Concurrency and Account Limits
A TypeScript report of Lambda reserved concurrency per Region: functions set to zero, throttled reservations, idle ones and headroom.
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Summarize High-Severity GuardDuty Findings Across Regions
A TypeScript AWS SDK v3 script that collects active high and critical GuardDuty findings from every Region and groups them by type and resource.
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Check EC2 Patch Compliance With Systems Manager
A TypeScript AWS SDK v3 script that reports patch compliance per Systems Manager managed node, including nodes that were never scanned.
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Check RDS Auto Minor Version Upgrade and Pending Maintenance
A TypeScript AWS SDK v3 script that reports RDS auto minor version upgrade settings and pending maintenance actions with their apply dates.
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Find Single-AZ RDS Databases in Production
A TypeScript AWS SDK v3 script that finds single-AZ RDS instances and Aurora clusters without a cross-AZ reader, filtered by environment tag.
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Find RDS Databases That Don’t Require SSL/TLS
A TypeScript AWS SDK v3 script that reads each RDS and Aurora parameter group and reports databases that still accept unencrypted connections.
