aws Archives - Ignas Sakalauskas

SnsTestReceiver – Introduction

I would like to introduce a new helper tool I’ve developed for integration tests – SnsTestReceiver. This my new little pet helps to test SNS allowing the assertion of the notifications published in an easy and scalable way.

3 ways to invoke AWS Lambda synchronously

AWS Lambda is well known for the amazing scalability and extremely easy integrations with the AWS cloud native event producers, i.e. SQS, SNS, CloudWatch just to mention a few. However, there is another interesting aspect of it — invoking AWS Lambda synchronously, for example running a RESTful API.

Docker image vulnerabilities in .NET Core

AWS ECR recently rolled out a new feature called Scan on push which makes it very easy to scan for docker image vulnerabilities once your images are pushed to an ECR repository. The results of those using .NET Core docker images might be very surprising, or not?! :)

LocalStack S3 setup for .net core development

If you use AWS S3 and don’t want to use the actual bucket for one or another reason for your local development, you’ve probably come across LocalStack S3 mock for this. Especially, if you are running your apps or integration tests in Docker.

No RegionEndpoint or ServiceURL configured

I was setting up Amazon SQS client locally, and received No RegionEndpoint or ServiceURL configured exception. My goal was to load all AWS config values from environment variables together with a temporary session token, however I will go trough config file option as well. Apparently region value was not picked up by the Amazon SQS client.