Hi, my name is Tom Spencer.

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Sep 28, 2024

AWS with LocalStack

My experience running code locally with LocalStack

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Jan 22, 2024

AWS SES Security: Best Practices for Secure Email Sending

In the evolving landscape of digital communication, email spoofing poses a significant threat to the integrity of online identities. As a hobby project, and to practice AWS and software design, I have been developing an application called MovieBooker. This application streamlines the process of booking movie tickets and managing movie programs for both moviegoers and staff.

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Sep 10, 2023

How to connect securely to an RDS instance running in a private Subnet

It is not possible to connect to an RDS instance locally directly, you need to tunnel through an EC2 instance to reach the database securely

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