Aws

TL;DR This site is deliberately boring infrastructure for a reason: Hugo generates static HTML with the PaperMod theme. Terraform manages AWS (S3, CloudFront, Route53, ACM). GitHub Actions and self-hosted k3s runners deploy on every push to main. An AI pipeline (Bedrock + a Python script) drafts articles into Hugo page bundles and opens PRs for review. There’s no dynamic backend, no database, no server to maintain. The AWS bill is ~$30/month. This post is a tour of the machine that prints the other posts. ...

TL;DR This is the counterpart to the manifesto and the DR drill. After moving a chunk of the stack home, a list of things deliberately stayed rented: Route53, ACM, S3, AWS KMS, the Anthropic API for Claude, Bedrock for Amazon-only models, a transactional email sender, and one repo on GitHub. Each of them earns its place by being either the long pole on availability or the dependency that has to outlive the cluster. Self-hosting maximalism is a trap; the seam is the feature. ...

TL;DR AWS Lens is an open-source Electron desktop app for managing AWS resources — EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, Cost Explorer, and more. I wanted it accessible from my browser without running a desktop app. I adapted it to run as a containerized Express server on k3s, fixed a class of runtime crashes from the Electron-to-web adapter, hardened it against three security issues, and deployed it behind Traefik and Let’s Encrypt. The changes are open-source in BoraKostem/AWS-Lens#21. ...