Field Notes: How OLX Europe Fights Millions of Bots with AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: How OLX Europe Fights Millions of Bots with AWS This post was cowritten with Daniel Loureiro, Lead Security Engineer at OLX Group Global Information Security. At OLX, infrastructure is constantly being scanned and targeted by advanced malicious botnets. These botnets either scrape the content of their websites to monetize it on other…

The case for and against Amazon Cognito

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedThe case for and against Amazon Cognito In light of recent news of Okta’s pending acquisition of Auth0 there’s been renewed discussion about where Amazon Cognito fits into the picture. It’s a question my clients often ask me, so here are my two cents. The case for Cognito Integration with other AWS services Cognito’s tight integration with…

Using API destinations with Amazon EventBridge

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing API destinations with Amazon EventBridge Amazon EventBridge enables developers to route events between AWS services, integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications, and your own applications. It can help decouple applications and produce more extensible, maintainable architectures. With the new API destinations feature, EventBridge can now integrate with services outside of AWS using…