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Amazon introduced native blue-green deployment support in ECS, allowing simultaneous operation of old and new application versions. This strategy minimizes downtime and simplifies rollbacks. The article details how to modify an existing ECS service for blue-green deployments using CloudFormation, enabling more sophisticated and efficient application...

In a recent project, the team wanted to improve the deployment and management of Route53 Resolver DNS Firewalls across the AWS Organisation. We ultimately utilised AWS Firewall Manager and gathered lots of useful operational insights. This blog post shares those insights to assist others planning...

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity via Shine recently to attend the inaugural OWASP AppSec Day 2018 (Melbourne) at RMIT. Security professionals from around the globe gave some insightful talks into the state of secure application development in 2018. In this post I'll share you some of the key insights I gained from these talks.
Anyone who has delved into CloudFormation knows its power for describing and managing your cloud infrastructure within AWS. Likewise, if you've spent any time writing CloudFormation templates of any significance you'll know that you'll spend a lot of time duplicating sections of templates.We always aim to reduce repetition in code so this can be a bit grating.In this post, I hope to explore a few technologies that can help with this, primarily a tool called Sceptre from Cloudreach.