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The Path Not Found Is the Point
Scanners arrive with a shopping list: WordPress, admin panels, .env files, and login forms. A static site has none of those. That absence turns the site into a passive honeypot.
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Why Toronto! and Why, Toronto?
One CloudFront edge location dominated the probe traffic by a factor of six. Pulling that thread led to Azure Canada Central and a particular kind of internet scavenger.
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Knock Knock, Who's There?
A static site with no login pages, no forms, and no commercial value still attracts thousands of unsolicited requests per month. This is what that traffic contains.
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Why I Used CloudFront Functions Instead of Lambda@Edge
Why a CloudFront Function was the right choice for canonical host redirects and URL rewriting, and what would change that decision.
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Self-Hosted Analytics on AWS
A privacy-preserving analytics pipeline on AWS, built to cost almost nothing.
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Why S3 Returns 403 When It Means 404
S3 returns 403 for missing objects when the caller lacks ListBucket permission. Here's why, and how to fix it for static sites on CloudFront.
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Caching for Consistency: A Balanced Static Site Strategy
Implementing a tiered caching strategy that balances high-performance delivery for assets with immediate consistency for content updates.
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When CloudFront Works but Your Domain Doesn't
A DNS debugging story involving IPv6, Terraform, and a lying resolver.
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AWS, but Deliberately
Why using cloud primitives directly provides a better foundation for ownership and security than 'magic' hosting platforms.
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