In December 2019, I’ve decided to switch from a long-time (15 years) habit of Full-Time Employee (FTE) contracts to running my own business as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect. This decision came to me after a few disappointments from my past experiences as a traditional employee/consultant, and I had been thinking about this switch for several years. It was the perfect time for me to start this new challenge: I’ve no plan to take a homebuyer’s loan for the next few years. I’m confident regarding my AWS skills now, even if I still have a lot to learn. My network is now large enough to easily get new opportunities (friends, ex-colleagues, acquaintances, social network). My wife is working and has an FTE job. I will focus on value delivery to my customers as a freelance consultant, in the following areas: Modern Cloud Architecture Design, Security Assessments, Reliability, Automation, Cost-Effectiveness, Training and so on. ...

In my day-to-day job, I was wasting time reinstalling and dealing with the dependencies of all my favorite tools for AWS Security Audits and Assessments. So, lately, I’ve decided to start another pet project trying to solve this issue and provide a simple Docker container with all the security-related tooling for your AWS Assessments. I’ve decided to open-source it. After some discussion with my peers, they were interested in this kind of stuff to avoid wasting hours installing a myriad of apps and Python dependencies on their own laptop or customer machine. ...

I was wondering if I could schedule simple bash scripts using AWS Fargate for some trivial batch operations. To be completely honest, it is also an excuse to learn more about AWS Fargate, and to convert a legacy bash script based on EC2 Spot instances to a container world. In this post, we will see how to schedule a bash script job once a day. To do so, we will deploy the corresponding AWS infrastructure (even if it’s serverless, yes :wink:) using Terraform. ...

Disclaimer: This article was written with my co-author: Sandro aka Khrarec. thx dude. Introduction With the rise of cloud managed services comes a very important one: the databases. So, what’s a managed database service? Basically, a database is a server-side software like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or for NoSQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc. But when you install and build your database server that way, it means you have to manage the configuration, which is sometimes very tricky. You might make some mistakes that can kill performance. ...

re:Inforce 2019 Il s’agit de la première édition de cette conférence AWS dédiée à la sécurité de ce Cloud Service Provider (CSP). AWS est actuellement en train de proposer de nouveaux événements et summits sur des sujets spécifiques, en plus de l’événement annuel, le re:Invent. Cette conférence aura lieu chaque année dans une ville différente des États-Unis, il est question de Houston pour l’année prochaine. https://reinforce.awsevents.com/ J’ai eu l’occasion de participer au re:Cap du re:Inforce proposé par AWS France, voici en synthèse, les éléments à ne pas manquer. ...