How to Set Up AWS CDK for Python

In this guide, I’ll walk through setting up AWS CDK with Python, including all the required dependencies and steps, and demonstrate how to deploy a simple app that provisions an Amazon S3 bucket.

What is the AWS CDK?

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source software development framework designed to facilitate the creation and management of cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages. Here are several important features and concepts associated with AWS CDK.:

Preparing for AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024, the biggest event in the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) calendar, is fast approaching once again.

If you’re attending in person, it can be challenging to determine which sessions will be most valuable. In this blog post, I’ve highlighted the sessions I’m planning to attend, along with some tips to help you make the most of the event.

Reserved seating opens on October 8th, a day I like to refer to as “whack-a-mole night.” As soon as you try to reserve a spot, it’s likely the session will already be fully booked, leaving you to queue up on the day and potentially miss out on other opportunities.

AWS Global Ambassador Summit, Seattle

I’m honored to have recently returned to the country after attending the AWS Global Ambassador Summit at AWS headquarters in Seattle, USA, for the second consecutive year. This 3-day event brought together Ambassadors from around the globe, alongside leaders from within the AWS organization.

Day 1

We learned from AWS about the advancements in Amazon Q Developer and its future trajectory, explored Quantum Computing with Amazon Braket, and gained insights into how AWS leverages social media to monitor and amplify their brand. We also delved into the culture of innovation and received the latest updates on Amazon GuardDuty. A highlight for me, as always, was hearing from our peers during the Ambassador Lightning Talks, which is one of my favorite parts of the event.

Configuring the Cloud Intelligence Dashboards

The Cloud Intelligence Dashboards are an open-source framework that provides customers with actionable insights and optimisation opportunities at scale within an organisation. These dashboards help organisations drive financial accountability, whilst helping them to optimise cost, track usage goals, and implement best-practices for governance.

The dashboards provided by this Solution have come from the GitHub Repository and provide a variety of Amazon QuickSight Dashboards to provide visibility over the spend in there AWS Accounts.

Tagging Strategies for AWS

What are tags & why do we need them?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows you to assign metadata to many of your AWS resources in the form of tags. Each tag is a simple label consisting of a key and an optional value to store information about the resource or data retained on that resource. Implementing a consistent tagging strategy can make it easier to filter and search for resources, monitor cost and usage, as well as manage your AWS environment.

Preparing for AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS re:Invent 2023, the biggest event in the annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) calendar, is just around the corner.

If you’ll be attending in person, it can be difficult to know which sessions will be valuable. In this blog post I’ve listed the sessions that I’m planning on attending as well as a few tips to get the best from the event.

Reserved seating for the event opens on 17th October that I like to call whack-a-mole night as no sooner have you tried to reserve a seat it’s quite likely that session will already be fully booked and then you’ll end up queuing up on the day and potentially mission out on other opportunities available to you at the event.

Configuring Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM)

In many enterprise environments a common challenge is to how to handle the allocation of IP CIDR blocks be that to Data Centers, Offices, Subnets so as to ensure that resources don’t end up with IP addresses that have already been assigned to resources on the Network. Duplicate IP Addresses on the Network can cause numerous issues and AWS have previously written the following blog that discusses several solutions to this challenge such as the use of NAT Gateways and AWS PrivateLink or a couple of more manual approaches to workaround the issue.