In this article, I will provide step-by-step instructions on how to set up a secure webhook that can receive incoming requests and save request payload as an S3 File. By using Lambda and Terraform, you can easily create and manage your webhook, ensuring that it is always available and ready to handle incoming requests. Whether…
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Aurora vs MySQL vertical scaling benchmark on AWS RDS
Sometimes you need to add or remove ressources like CPUs or RAM to your databases to handle more or less concurrent operations. This is called scaling. Due to a migration from MySQL to Aurora in my company, I benchmarked vertical scaling delay on MySQL and Aurora and I will detail these results in this article….
How to protect a website against DoS Attack using AWS WAF v2
Denial of Service attacks are commons in these times. In my company we receive from time to time such an attack. For example on September 26th someone did almost one million requests in 1 hour on our servers and it was blocked by our AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF v2) : I will detail in this…
Replicate AWS RDS Aurora to AWS RDS MySQL
AWS encourages you to migrate from RDS MySQL to RDS Aurora by offering convenient features such as the ability to create an Aurora Read Replica from an RDS MySQL cluster and then promote it to Master. An almost downtime-free migration ! But how to do the same thing in the other way ? How to replicate…