Using the CLI with AWS SSO

In an interesting discussion at work today, someone mentioned a tool that would allow you to only log in once for AWS accounts in an AWS Organization. Which surprised me, as that is built into the way the CLI works with AWS SSO. It turns out that many people were unaware of this. As I tend to complain about SSO, I figured I might as well point out one of the parts I really enjoy about it.

AWS and Patching: Easily keep your instances up to date

When it comes to computers in any form there is one task that it’s hard to find anyone who enjoys it, and that is patching. While updating a system in order to get new capabilities can be fun because of what it will enable you to do, patching means spending time to maintain the status quo. Which is both boring and frustrating. Luckily cloud infrastructure allows us to more easily automate this, so let’s have a look at how that works when running on AWS.

aws-sdk-go-v2 is finally GA

I wrote about version 2 of the Go SDK for AWS over 3 years ago. At the time it was just available in beta/preview mode and I expected it to become GA a bit quicker than it did. But now it's finally here!

Building on the SSO APIs

Last week I wrote about AWS SSO's CloudFormation and how (with some assistance) that can be used to manage your permission sets and assignments of those permission sets. Today I want to take a bit more positive look at the actual underlying APIs.

Fixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation

A couple of weeks ago, the AWS SSO team finally released functionality I've been anxiously waiting for: a (limited) API and CloudFormation support! So now it's time to break that down and complain about the CloudFormation implementation.