Andrew Chaa walks through building a serverless SMS notification system that prioritizes security by never hardcoding credentials. The guide demonstrates passing sensitive Twilio credentials from GitHub Secrets through Terraform variables to Lambda environment variables, creating a complete automated deployment pipeline that keeps API keys secure throughout the entire workflow.

Shaoyun Jian addresses common Terraform team collaboration challenges, including state locking conflicts, version mismatches, and untracked local applies. The author compares different solutions, such as GitHub Actions workflows, Atlantis for automated plan/apply via pull request comments, and HCP Terraform, emphasizing that every change should go through code review with visible plans before execution.

Omar Nour transforms AWS Control Tower concepts into a hands-on implementation for a fictional FinTech startup called OmarFinance. He covers deploying Control Tower with Terraform, integrating Azure AD for SSO access management, applying ISO 27001-aligned detective, proactive, and preventive controls, and validating them by intentionally creating non-compliant resources to test enforcement.

Intent lets you provision and manage cloud infrastructure using natural language. AB: This is an open-source project by Spacelift for their customers, but I decided to share it anyway, because I think it is COOL…

I recommend this project by Luc van Donkersgoed (fellow AWS Hero) to help you keep track of AWS news and blogs in one place. See what's hot, read summaries, search, set bookmarks and ratings, and categorize articles with tags.