Enabling CloudFront access logs is a basic way of monitoring incoming requests. However, CloudFront writes these logs as gzip packed files into S3, which makes a convenient analysis difficult. AWS Glue together with AWS Athena allows the use of SQL to query these logs and this post explains the steps to deploy the necessary infrastructure with CDK 2.

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When deploying infrastructure as code with CDK it is a good practice to keep stateful resources like databases separated from stateless resources in different stacks to avoid accidental data loss and other problems.

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Having migrated to RESTEasy Reactive sporadic SocketExceptions occurred in one of our AWS Lambdas several minutes after the actual Lambda execution. This article describes one possible solution for this problem by disabling the connection pool for the used REST client with the help of custom HttpClientOptions but of course with the price of a lower overall performance.

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