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This article was originally posted in September 2019. Updated in February 2020. Disclaimer Thanks to @0xdabbad00 from SummitRoute for the original idea and jq parsing. Purpose When your production workloads rely on AWS IAM Managed Policies (don’t do this), you will need to be notified when changes occur behind the scenes. It’s also interesting to monitor new AWS service releases ahead of the announcements to get spoiled. This pet project automates the retrieval (every 4 hours) of new AWS Managed IAM Policies to make it easier to monitor and get alerted when changes occur (by AWS), using the “Watch” feature on GitHub, RSS or a dedicated Twitter Account. ...

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. ...