AWS

AWS API Gateway Authorizers & Default Responses

A coworker of mine recently was having issues with calling an AWS API Gateway he had deployed. He was getting responses but no Lambda…

cloud-init User Data Include File Format

I ran into something today with cloud-init that lead to a bit of a deep dive and I thought I’d share what I found.

One of the formats you can use for User Data is the include file format. It allows you to list our URLs or file paths. cloud-init will access the file or URL and execute it as a script. It’s great if there is a publicly accessible script you want to run. I’ve also seen cases…

BT Sync & AWS

BitTorrent Sync (BT Sync) is a tool that can be used to synchronize files between devices using peer-to-peer (P2P), technology. Using this…