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Monitoring AWS Health Events
Every so often, infrastructure in an AWS availability zone (or region) breaks down or a bug is discovered with a service. When this happens, AWS sends a notification to affected accounts and an email to the account owner. That’s pretty useful if you are the sole owner of an account, but what if you need those emails to reach multiple users? You could always forward them, but that requires action on your part. Instead, let’s take you out of the equation by setting up a system that will automatically forward those health notifications to a group of users.
Sep 9, 2020
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Problem
Picture this. You work as a cloud IT professional at a medium size company and you recently hired some AWS contractors. They do a good job, and you get permission to hire more in the future. So you do, and this goes on for some time. However, you get tired of manually removing old contractor users from your IAM groups. What’s an IT pro to do?
Solution
A good way to solve this problem would be to use a scheduled Lambda function and good tagging practices to identify old users and remove their permissions. If you tag any new contractors as role: contractor, you can use a script to identify and remove them from groups automatically using this boto3 method. We will be using the serverless framework to handle the infrastructure deployment for this lambda function. Let’s get into it.
Apr 17, 2020
