CloudFront Signed URL vs S3 Pre Signed URL - When to Use What?

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🧠 Use Case

• CloudFront Signed URL vs S3 Pre Signed URL - When to Use What?

🚀 Top News

• AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity

  With this update, customers can now use Interface endpoints to access VPC endpoint services across different AWS Regions within the same AWS partition.

👀 Remote Jobs

• VRCHAT is hiring a DevSecOps Engineer

  Remote Location: Worldwide

• Lighthouse Tech is hiring a AWS Cloud Engineer

  Remote Location: Worldwide

📚️ Resources

• Git Flops: The Dangers of Terraform Automation Platforms

  Terraform automation platforms, like Terraform Cloud and Atlantis, are vulnerable to attacks through malicious HCL in speculative terraform plan operations, risking cloud credential exposure.

• How to use CloudTrail to analyse your CloudWatch API Usage

  By combining CloudTrail with CloudWatch Log Insights or Athena, teams can gain visibility into usage patterns, optimize spend, and enhance observability.

• Spin up a local Kubernetes environment with Kind and Cilium without kube-proxy

  This lightweight setup enables efficient testing and development with enhanced observability through Hubble.

🛠️ TOOL OF THE DAY

Trailscraper -  A command-line tool to get valuable information out of AWS CloudTrail. A general purpose toolbox for working with IAM policies.

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