I assumed (incorectly) that websites hosted on AWS Amplify (a serverless product) didn’t need to worry about managing SSL certificates. Unfortunately, I recently discovered my website showing an SSL certificate error. How could this be possible?

In this post I’ll be going over what happened, the solution, and how to keep your AWS Amplify or serverless websites online.

As a best practice AWS accounts that are unused or surplus to requirement should be deleted. Unfortunately the process to do so was both manual and time consuming. That all changed on the 29th of March 2022 when AWS announced the availability of the ‘CloseAccount’ API.

In this post I’ll be providing a quick overview of how to close or delete AWS accounts that are members of an AWS Organization.

Like many others I make use of Homebrew as the package manager on my Mac. Usually it’s quite reliable, yet when I recently tried to install Terraform from the brew repository I was shown the error “Your Command Line Tools are too outdated”. This post will cover the steps I used to fix the issue.