Paul SANTUS

Paul SANTUS @psantus

About: Independent consultant • AWS Cloud Architect • Software Architect • I love empowering IT Teams with Agile and DevOps :)

Location:
Poitiers, France
Joined:
Mar 8, 2024

Paul SANTUS
articles - 43 total

Browse your AWS Data Lake tables in your JetBrains IDE, with IAM Identity Center authentication

JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, PHPStorm) Ultimate Editions come with a powerful database tool....

Learn More 1 0Oct 6

RIP Amazon Data Firehose Change Data Capture

When a couple of weeks before re:Invent 2024, AWS announced in a blog post titled Replicate changes...

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How to Replace Your CMS with a Static Site Using Amazon Q CLI Chat

I tackled the AWS Builder Challenge #cloud-launch-challenge-1 by completely rebuilding my consulting...

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Introducing Bref Lambda Layers Terraform module

Today I'm glad to introduce Bref Lambdas Layers Terraform module ! Check it out on the Terraform...

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How I got AWS to update a managed IAM policy :)

Amazon/AWS people speak a lot on how they're customer obsessed, and have a bias for action. And...

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Terraform for AWS: how not to get stuck when the provider lacks a datasource?

Terraform is a great tool. I love it! But when the resource you want to manage is only partially...

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Vacuum your Apache Iceberg table with Athena and Step Functions with this Terraform module

Apache Iceberg tables are a cost-effective solution to store tabular data, run ACID transactions and...

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AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server: how up-to-date, scoped, reference data helps deliver better answers.

In my previous post, I introduced AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server, a Model Context...

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Introducing AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server

What is a MCP server? LLMs are like genies trapped in a bottle: their knowledge is limited...

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Your framework sucks when it comes to cloud integration (and I believe AWS should do more about it)

In my daily job as an independent consultant and Solutions Architect specialised in AWS, I'm helping...

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With Ja4Fingerprint, fighting DDoS attack will get easier with AWS WAF

In the previous blog post in this WAF series, I shared how to maintain a blocklist, using...

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La valeur du serverless : un exemple concret

J'entends souvent dire que les services managés, en particulier les services serverless, sont...

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The value of serverless: a real-life example

I often hear that managed services, especially serverless services, are expensive. So I wanted to...

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Combine AWS WAF with reactive infrastructure to block attackers (and don't go broke in the process)

AWS WAF is a really powerful security service, that will protect your internet-facing applications...

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re:Invent : que retenir ? (Final: DSQL, l'avenir des BDD ?)

J'ai brièvement évoqué dans le second article de cette série la sortie de DSQL (pour "Distributed SQL...

Learn More 1 0Dec 15 '24

Aurora Serverless v2 scales to zero.. but how fast?

During Pre:Invent season, AWS announced that Aurora Serverless v2 now scales down to zero, leaving no...

Learn More 12 1Dec 9 '24

re:Invent : que retenir ? (Jour 2 - well.... not much)

J'ai veillé tard hier soir (pas uniquement pour re:Invent, une MEP / bascule sur AWS a occupé un bon...

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re:Invent : que retenir ? (Jour 1 - data[base|lake|for AI] et assistant de code)

Re:Invent, Jour 1 : c'est fini ! Au menu du jour, données, bases de données, et utilisation des...

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re:Invent : que retenir ? (épisode 1 - pre:Invent)

re:Invent, la conférence clients annuelle d'AWS a commencé ! Pendant cet événement, je vous propose...

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Does this IP belong to AWS ?

I recently worked for a client (whose Identity I will gracefully keep undisclosed) who happened to...

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Cette adresse IP appartient-elle à AWS ?

Chez un client, j'ai trouvé une infrastructure dont tous les composants étaient exposés publiquement...

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How to run PHP on AWS ServerLess architecture ? Part 2 - introducing Bref runtime

In this series' previous post, I discussed serverless services and what Lambda is. Now it's time to...

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How to run PHP on AWS ServerLess architecture ? Part 1 - What's serverless?

Lambda, the AWS flagship serverless service, allow to run code on various runtimes. However PHP is...

Learn More 9 0Oct 7 '24

EventBridge : contourner la limite de temps de réponse de 5s des "API Destinations", à l'aide de Lambda PowerTools

Dans EventBridge, "API destinations" est une fonctionnalité permettant d'appeler n'importe quelle API...

Learn More 1 1Sep 2 '24

EventBridge: working around API Destination 5s maximum client timeout constraint, using Lambda PowerTools idempotency

Amazon EventBridge API destinations are any HTTP endpoints that you can invoke as the target of an...

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Event-Driven Architecture: reconcile Notification and Event-Carried State Transfer patterns

Event-driven architectures have tremendous benefits: decoupling application components brings...

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Architecture orientée événement : réconcilier Notifications et Evénements "Complets"

Les architectures orientées événement offrent de nombreux bénéfices : le découplage entre les...

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Stratégie : que va t-on (ne pas faire) cette année ?

J'ai vu cette scène se répéter encore et encore au cours de ma carrière (en cabinet de conseil puis...

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Your S3 objects could be public (even though the AWS Console doesn't say so)

S3 is an amazing storage service, able to durably store data at exabyte scale and present it with...

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SecNumCloud / EUCS : plaidoyer pour une analyse de risques rationnelle

Les débats font rage autour du projet de directive européenne EUCS (European Cybersecurity...

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