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AWS Essentials for Application Developers: IAM, S3 Presigned URLs and Lambda

The handful of services and security rules most web apps actually need on AWS.

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  1. IAM least privilege is the foundation of AWS security.
  2. Presigned URLs let browsers upload to S3 without your server proxying bytes.
  3. Lambda suits event-driven work with clear time limits.

Two hundred services, a few that matter

AWS can feel overwhelming, but most web applications use a small core: IAM for access, S3 for files, a database, a compute option such as Lambda or containers, CloudWatch for logs and a CDN.

Learning those well, especially IAM, prevents the expensive mistakes: public buckets, leaked keys and runaway bills.

In the rest of this story
  1. IAM, the real foundation
  2. A presigned upload URL
  3. Cost and reliability habits
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