Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a Simple Notification Service (SNS) that allows you to publish messages to a topic that multiple subscribers can consume. One type of subscriber that SNS offers is an HTTPS endpoint with optional basic authentication. Sounds straightforward, right?

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Like many organizations, we are in the middle of switching to Slack. They offer a long list of integrations out of the box including GitHub, but the native integration is missing some events my team and I had come to rely on (namely labeling Issues and Pull Requests). GitHub has Webhooks and Slack has Incoming Webhooks so all I needed to do was put something in the middle to translate GitHub’s JSON output to a JSON input for Slack.

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I wanted to find the IP ranges for all of Amazon’s US-based S3 regions. After a lot of searching through outdated forums, I found out how to get the ranges directly from the source.  Continue reading “Finding Amazon S3 Region IP Ranges” →