AWS Outage—What Happened And What To Do Next
A review of the great us-east-1 AWS outage of 2025.
stelvio.dev: AWS for Python devs - made simple
A Python library that also builds out your deployment too.
The whole IAC thing bothers me because people say "code" but it's almost never actually code. This looks like it might end up actually putting the code in IAC.
LaunchFlow - Docs
Another IfC solution; native to Python.
S3 Bucket Namesquatting - Abusing predictable S3 bucket names – One Cloud Please
Given I’m fairly new to AWS, I was surprised to find that S3 has a global namespace. And so of course squatting is a thing.
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Failing as designed, I imagine.
Boto3 1.34.129 documentation
"You use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to create, configure, and manage AWS services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The SDK provides an object-oriented API as well as low-level access to AWS services."
Intrinsic function reference - AWS CloudFormation
The guide to CloudFormation intrinsic functions.
Pseudo parameters reference - AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation pseudo parameter reference.
How boto3 impacts the cold start times of your Lambda functions | tecRacer Amazon AWS Blog
An analysis of how boto3 affects the code start times of AWS Lamdas.
Home - Lambda Forge
A tool for quickly building Lambda functions.
Nitric Cloud-Native Framework | Get Infrastructure from Code
While getting frustrated that all of the IaC offerings I've seen have seemingly had little to do with actual code, I've come across the concept of IfC. This is one example of that approach.