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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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Infrastructure as Code Without Heroics
Why declarative infrastructure is valuable for small systems, and how Terraform acts as executable documentation for this blog.
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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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