Migrating Site from S3 to Github Pages
Posted on Mon 24 February 2020 in Dev • Tagged with meta, Github • 2 min read
Validating Domain Ownership for SSL Certificates Using Amazon SES
Posted on Wed 20 September 2017 in Dev • Tagged with AWS, SES, Route53 • 4 min read
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) provides the ability to provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates. ACM will attempt to verify the domain you're issuing a certificate for by using the administrative, registrant and technical contact emails from WHOIS records. But what if you have privacy protection enabled and these aren't available for public consumption? A combination of Route53, SES and S3 can provide a makeshift solution for this one time activity. This can be paticularly useful for .io domains and .uk domains with privacy protection enabled. In both cases no email contact is obfuscated in WHOIS records 
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Deploying a Static Webiste Using Cloudformation
Posted on Mon 18 September 2017 in Dev • Tagged with meta, AWS, Cloudformation, S3 • 2 min read
First post! First in series of 'meta' posts describing the build, architecture, deployment and CI process for this website. robarthur.co.uk is built and deployed using AWS hosting tools, a python static site generator and AWS hosted CI pipeline.Simple Storage Solution (S3). 
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