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Most S3-to-Lambda setups skip CloudTrail data events entirely and pay for it later with brittle fan-out and zero audit trail. This post walks through a CDK TypeScript stack that routes S3 events through EventBridge properly — VPC placement, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, cost model, and the failur
Wiring CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, and Auto Scaling in CDK sounds straightforward until your first real scale event cracks the deployment. This post walks the full architecture - VPC, ALB, ASG, SSM config, and the lifecycle hook settings that keep deploys clean under load.
Most CDK tutorials stop at 'it deployed.' This one covers the full aws cdk web application deployment stack - VPC isolation, Fargate on private subnets, Aurora with KMS, CloudFront, Secrets Manager rotation - and the six operational gaps that will wake you up at 2am if you skip them.