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My Terraform Drift Alert Could Not Explain the Drift

My Terraform drift detector could send an email, but it could not explain what changed or how serious it was. I changed the SNS message into structured JSON, delivered it to SQS for audit processing, and used Lambda to classify every resource change by severity.

July 22, 2026Terraform Drift: Catching Infrastructure Changes Before They Catch You

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The Security Group Change Terraform Never Told Me About

Terraform could reproduce my infrastructure, but it could not warn me when someone changed AWS manually. I built a CodeBuild job that runs Terraform plan, handles the drift exit code correctly, reads shared configuration from SSM, and sends an SNS email when the real infrastructure no longer matches the code.

July 15, 2026Terraform Drift: Catching Infrastructure Changes Before They Catch You

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Building a Serverless File Upload Pipeline: API Gateway, Lambda, S3, and SNS

A step-by-step walkthrough of building a serverless file upload pipeline using API Gateway, Lambda, S3, and SNS , wiring four AWS services together from scratch.

May 12, 2026

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