The Secret Life of AWS: The Direct Handshake (Amazon S3 Pre-Signed URLs)
The Secret Life of AWS: The Direct Handshake (Amazon S3 Pre-Signed URLs) How to securely offload large file downloads from your serverless API #AWS #S3 #Serverless #CloudArchitecture Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — the kind of place where code quality is the unspoken objective, and craftsmanship is the only thing that matters. Episode 68 Timothy was watching a loading spinner on his screen with a look of mounting frustration. The new feature the marketing team requested—allowing customers to download high-resolution PDF manuals for their purchased keyboards—was failing miserably in staging. Margaret walked into the studio and noticed the red HTTP 502 Bad Gateway error flashing on his screen. "Our decoupled architecture is choking," Timothy explained, pulling up his CloudWatch logs. "The customer requests the manual. API Gateway routes the request to our Lam...