Scott
@scottburgholzer.tech
Cloud Engineer AWS Community Builder Storm Chaser Ham Radio Operator
Real confession: my perfectionist mindset means side projects take me a month. Or never ship at all. This weekend I built and deployed a full-stack AI tool in half a day. The problem I was solving: every time I switch projects, I lose 10-15 minutes re-orienting. What 🧵
Most CI/CD pipelines check your code. None of them check what your infrastructure change will break downstream. terraform plan shows what you're changing. It doesn't show the 28 resources affected by that change. That gap is where incidents happen. Article 2 of the 🧵
A developer modifies an ingress rule on a security group. The PR looks clean. cdk diff shows one resource changing. It gets approved and deployed. Then the alerts start. Ten EC2 instances lose connectivity. Three RDS databases go unreachable. Production goes 🧵
Excited to announce: I am presenting at the AWS Summit in Washington, DC. The summit runs June 30 to July 1. I am one of the presenters in the Developer Demos session. Not a polished keynote with a teleprompter. Developer Demos is the room where people show the thing 🧵
I'm honored to announce I'll be speaking at AWS Community Day this year — and the excitement is just getting started. 🔔 Follow our LinkedIn page as we reveal this year's speaker lineup — some incredible voices in the AWS space are joining us. 📌 Registration is open 🧵
2 Chicago AWS User Group events. 3 speakers. 0 sales pitches. Both feature people who actually shipped the thing they are talking about. A thread on what is coming up. 🧵 May 13: Kiro in Real Life Pianoforte Chicago, 5 to 7 PM CDT. Dave Stauffacher 🧵
Come build with the AWS community this summer! On June 24, the AWS Midwest User Group Community is hosting the Midwest Community Day in Indianapolis — a full day of real-world AWS talks, hands-on learning, and networking with builders from across the region. We’re 🧵
🌟 The 2026 AWS Community Builders program is accepting applications RIGHT NOW. My application story? Completely unplanned. New to content. Relatively new to AWS. Zero confidence I'd get in. Clicked submit anyway. Life-changing decision. What you'll see 🧵
✍️ New blog post by Scott Burgholzer The InvalidCiphertextException Mystery: Decrypting Cognito's Encrypted OTP Codes #aws #encryption #lambda #kms
The InvalidCiphertextException Mystery: Decrypting Cognito's Encrypted OTP Codes
The Problem You're building a custom email sender for Cognito because the default emails...
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🔐 New Post: Solving the InvalidCiphertextException Mystery in Cognito's Encrypted OTP Codes Ever hit InvalidCiphertextException when decrypting Cognito's custom email sender OTPs? You're not alone—and it's NOT what you think. 🔍 The plot twist: Your keys are fine. 🧵
🔐 New Post: Solving the InvalidCiphertextException Mystery in Cognito's Encrypted OTP Codes Ever hit InvalidCiphertextException when decrypting Cognito's custom email sender OTPs? You're not alone—and it's NOT what you think. 🔍 The plot twist: Your keys are fine. 🧵
Couldn't make it to my talk on October 28 title 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬? Well you are in luck! The recording is now avaliable!
New Post Alert! 🚨 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭'𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐭-𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 On November 18th, AWS introduced new flat‑rate pricing plans for Amazon CloudFront designed to make content delivery and security costs more 🧵
✍️ New blog post by Scott Burgholzer Understanding Amazon CloudFront's New Flat-Rate Pricing #aws #cloudfront #cdn
Understanding Amazon CloudFront's New Flat-Rate Pricing
On November 18th, AWS introduced new flat‑rate pricing plans for Amazon CloudFront designed to make...
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My own blog post is forthcoming soon: AWS CloudFront now has flat-rate pricing! AWS announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/aws-flat-rate-pricing-plans/ Powered by @nexus_share
My own blog post is forthcoming soon: AWS CloudFront now has flat-rate pricing! AWS announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/aws-flat-rate-pricing-plans/ Powered by @nexus_share
My own blog post is forthcoming soon: AWS CloudFront now has flat-rate pricing! AWS announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/aws-flat-rate-pricing-plans/ Powered by @nexus_share
Ever tried to figure out what services (and features of the service) are avaliable in each region of AWS when developing multi-region? You no longer have to search docs or do trial by error! AWS has released capabilities by region on Builder Center! builder.aws.com/build/capabi...
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Couldn't make it to my talk on October 28 title 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬? Well you are in luck! The recording is now avaliable! Youtube Link (https://youtu.be/CGX5lYxaMQg?si=0oPjWy8NyT6ePMcG) #AWSCommunityBuilder #AWS Powered by Nexus Share
The meteorology field lost a legend today. I’m honored and privileged that I was able to be in his presence a handful of times.
I filled out the 2025 @Answers4AWS survey. You should too! answersforaws.com/survey/ #aws
The 2025 Answers for AWS survey
Which AWS services are people interested in 🧐? Which do they like ✅? Which would they never use again 😡?
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AWS announced this the other day: SES Global Endpoints SES has four new components: Multi-Region Endpoint (MREP), Deterministic Easy DKIM Identities (DEED), Updated AWS SES Console Tool, and readiness checks. Read full post: www.linkedin.com/posts/sburgh...
Scott Burgholzer, M.S. on LinkedIn: Amazon SES now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience…
AWS announced this the other day, and I've started digging into it as it's important in my current projects: SES Global Endpoints These accomplish to main…
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So.. one of my first things to do in Vegas for re:Invent? An appointment at the Genius Bar at an Apple Store for a cracked iPad screen. Apple Care+ coming in clutch I hope….
Hey! Look! It's me! Finally got back to writing articles after school and work took over my life! Here I am exploring AWS Device Farm, very basically, but it's a good starting point for anyone who hasn't used it. I'm excited to learn more about it and use it in my projects!
AWS Community Builder Blog Posts@awscmblogposts.bsky.social · 2y ago✍️ New blog post by Scott Burgholzer What is AWS Device Farm and Using it to Test a Simple Android App #aws #devicefarm #testingtools
