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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Google is still the most used search engine in the world with a market share of over 80% in January 2023. However, it has major drawbacks and there are good alternatives available like e.g. MetaGer, an open source, privacy respecting search engine run by the non-profit German association SUMA-EV.

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