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Aidan Steele

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Melbourne, Australia

Hiya!

I'm Aidan, and I'm based in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺. I have a hobby: researching interesting ways to use AWS and creating open source tools along the way. Sometimes they're even useful. Here's an idea of some of them:

  • trackiam: monitoring for new AWS APIs every hour for a few years now
  • ipv6-ghost-ship: "securing" access to EC2 via encoding TOTP into IPv6 addresses
  • flowdog: a proof-of-concept for using AWS GWLBs to intercept and rewrite traffic inside AWS VPCs
  • lambdaeip: achieve Internet access from VPC-attached Lambda functions without an expensive NAT gateway
  • serverlessish: run regular web apps inside Lambda
  • cloudkey: using Yubikeys to authenticate to AWS and removing the need for IAM users on-premises
  • jwtex: a serverless OIDC IdP that can translate JWTs (e.g. from GitHub Actions) into a more AWS-friendly format with tags
  • postinvoke: Run code in a Go function after Lambda has returned a response
  • ... I think you get the idea.

I build these because I love scratching a personal itch and sharing the result with like-minded people. Realistically, I'm probably going to keep building them even if it never brings in a dollar. But your support would motivate me to keep on top of issues, feature requests and even fleshing out documentation. Plus I have some ideas for sponsor-only APIs and web services that I'd like to build.

@aidansteele

Reaching this number will mean that I've got 10 people expecting me to keep on coming up with wild new ideas and putting them into "production" - or at least some blog posts. Talk about motivation!

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@t04glovern

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Featured work

  1. aidansteele/ipv6-ghost-ship

    Silly usage of AWS EC2 IPv6 prefixes

  2. glassechidna/trackiam

    A project to collate IAM actions, AWS APIs and managed policies from various public sources.

  3. glassechidna/serverlessish

    Run the same Docker images in AWS Lambda and AWS ECS

  4. aidansteele/flowdog

    Framework for inspecting and editing traffic in AWS VPCs

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