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The Role of Identity Access Management (IAM) in Cloud Security

Palo Alto Networks

For example, consider an application that follows this flow: a Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic triggers a Lambda function, which in turn puts an item in a DynamoDB table. As an example of the impact of a strict (or over-permissive) IAM profile, let’s consider the Lambda function. Figure 1: Example application flow. IAM and SSO.

Cloud 88
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Upload Files to AWS S3 Using a Serverless Framework

Modus Create

We will do so with the help of the following services from AWS — API Gateway , AWS Lambda , and AWS S3. . Now, your project is ready to define the resources for AWS and the implementation for your lambda function, which will receive the file and store it in an S3 bucket. Lambda function. Defining Resources.

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On Building a Platform Team

Honeycomb

There’s a whole class of things you just don’t have to think about if, say, your system is running on lambdas. PS: If you missed Charity’s post on platform engineering , it’s definitely worth a read. It’s just that more of those abstraction layers are provided by vendors these days. Vendors vs. internal platform teams.

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Cloudera DataFlow Designer: The Key to Agile Data Pipeline Development

Cloudera

The data flow life cycle with Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) Data flows in CDF-PC follow a bespoke life cycle that starts with either creating a new draft from scratch or by opening an existing flow definition from the Catalog. Any flow definition in the Catalog can be executed as a deployment or a function.

Agile 84
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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Knative vs. AWS Lambda vs. Microsoft Azure Functions vs. Google Cloud. It does have a lot going for it, though—namely, that it’s open source and portable between cloud providers.

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Free Cloud Courses at Linux Academy — July 2019

Linux Academy

Towards the end of the course, the student will experience using CloudFormation with other technologies like Docker, Jenkins, and Lambda. Google Cloud Concepts. This course is for the true Google Cloud Platform beginner. What is the cloud or Google Cloud? Why do we use Google Cloud?

Linux 60
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Building a WebSocket Server Using AWS API Gateway

Modus Create

This will require the following services from AWS: API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB. Then, install the “serverless-iam-roles-per-function” plugin, which will help us define the AWS Role for each AWS Lambda. To organize the functions and resources definitions, separate them into “ functions ” and “ resources ” folders.

AWS 52