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Aidan Steele

Personal blog · awsteele.com/blogprogrammingsecurity

Aidan Steele's personal blog at awsteele.com covers programming and security. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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13mentions?
8HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Aidan Steele's AWS posts as sources: one on Graviton2 ARM support for Lambda with Go, and one on AWS federation as an alternative to storing credentials in GitHub Secrets.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Here's my seventh or eighth attempt at a blog. It's mostly going to be my experimentation with using AWS (Amazon Web Services, not Aidan William Steele).

Most-linked posts?

  1. AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-15
  2. A role for all your EC2 instances
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. pugz · 2021-09-29
    It works with Go: https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/29/graviton2-arm-comes-to-...

    Comment linking /blog/2021/09/29/graviton2-arm-comes-to-lambda.html

    on “AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas”
  2. arkadiyt · 2021-09-15

    Submitted AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. orf · 2022-01-18
    Isn't it just this? https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/15/aws-federation-comes-to... ( https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/249 ) Why does SAML.to need to be used?

    Comment linking /blog/2021/09/15/aws-federation-comes-to-github-actions.html

    on “Show HN: Stop Putting AWS Credentials in GitHub Secrets”
  4. mooreds · 2022-03-12

    Submitted AWS GWLB: Deep Packet Manipulation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. felixhuttmann · 2021-09-18
    On gitlab, there has been another way for some time: There is a JWT token CI_JOB_JWT available in an env var which contains the branch name and other info as one of the claims [1]. One can then use this token to obtain production secrets based on whether the branch is trusted. Github has the same feature upcoming [2], which allows to get also directly AWS or GCP credentials restricted by branch name [3, 4]. [1] http…

    Comment linking /blog/2021/09/15/aws-federation-comes-to-github-actions.html

    on “Anatomy of a Cloud Infrastructure Attack via a Pull Request”
  6. mooreds · 2024-09-20

    Submitted How Ima.ge.cx Works (2023) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. mooreds · 2023-10-25

    Submitted AWS role session tags for GitHub Actions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. klysm · 2023-06-13

    Submitted Shared VPCs Are Underrated as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. mooreds · 2024-02-20

    Submitted When AWS invariants aren't [invariant] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. mooreds · 2023-05-29

    Submitted Improve GitHub Actions OIDC security posture with custom issuer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. anupamchugh · 2023-03-12

    Submitted No need for AWS IAM users as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. kiyanwang · 2023-02-26

    Submitted A role for all your EC2 instances as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. mooreds · 2023-02-21

    Submitted A role for all your EC2 instances as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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