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Josh Rodgers

Author: Josh Rodgers

Josh Rodgers is a Senior Solutions Architect for AWS who works with enterprise customers in the Travel and Hospitality vertical. Josh enjoys working with customers to solve complex problems with a focus on serverless technologies, DevOps, and security. Outside of work, Josh enjoys hiking, playing music, skydiving, painting, and spending time with family.

Using Lambda-backed Custom Resources to Reduce Overhead in a Multi-Account Environment

Using Lambda-backed Custom Resources to Reduce Overhead in a Multi-Account Environment

Introduction Many of my customers use AWS CloudFormation to streamline provisioning operations for AWS and third-party resources, that they describe with code in JSON- or YAML-formatted CloudFormation templates. Some workloads require custom logic or inputs beyond standard parameter values. For these scenarios, an often overlooked and useful CloudFormation feature lies in AWS Lambda-backed custom resources. With Lambda-backed custom […]