Logging is one of the essential components of software development. We use different types of logs to identify issues in applications, track application events, analyze the performance of applications etc. Even though logs are very beneficial, they also introduce a huge risk to your business. …

In this post, I will show you how to implement a simple event-driven application using EventBridge Pipes and Terraform. At the time of writing this post, EventBridge Pipes resources are not available with Terraform AWS Provider, therefore I use Terraform AWS Cloud Control Provider (awscc). …

In Amazon EventBridge, you can create an encrypted archive of the events published to an event bus. In this post, I will explain how we can create an event archive and replay those events later. Advantages of an Event Archive When testing an application feature or bug, you may need to generate various events. Sometimes…

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database engine that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. In this article, I will explain how you can invoke an AWS Lambda function from an Amazon Aurora MySQL cluster with the native function lambda_sync or lambda_async . Simple Use Case We have an Amazon Aurora MySQL…

This post will show you how Lambda functions can consume messages from an SQS queue in a different AWS account. Use Case We have an application running in a few environments such as DEV, UAT, and PROD. This application has an Amazon SQS queue for publishing order information of customers. …

We can use Amazon S3 Select to retrieve a subset of data from an S3 object using simple SQL statements. Since Amazon S3 Select filters a subset of data, it will help to reduce the data transfer cost and latency of an application. …

We can use the AWS EventBridge event bus to receive events from various event sources such as AWS services, custom applications, SasS applications, etc. To do that, AWS EventBridge provides two types of event buses such as default and custom. …

In this post, I am going to explain how we can scan docker images for vulnerabilities from a CI/CD pipeline. I use AWS CodePipeline to scan Docker images stored in AWS ECR. Note that I use AWS CDK for creating all the resources and you can clone the complete project…

Event Filtering AWS Lambda provides a feature to filter events that come from Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB. With this feature, Lambda only sends the filtered events to the handler function. Advantages of event filtering In some use cases, we may not need to process all the events that come from the event sources…