Conor Maher

Conor’s areas of interest are security, infrastructure as code and serverless technologies.

With over a decade of experience using AWS, Conor has become a self-professed “cloud wrangler,” and loves working with teams and organisations of all sizes to help them get the most from the cloud.

Conor runs the AWS User Group in the South East and enjoys knowledge sharing and events.

AWS User Group South East

The AWS User Group for the South East is for professionals, enthusiasts and hobbyists who use Amazon Web Services. The group hosts deep-dive technical talks from individuals and companies in the South East doing amazing things on the AWS platform.

AWS Bites Podcast

Eliminate the IAM User

Explore why IAM users and long-lived credentials are dangerous and should be avoided. Hear war stories of compromised credentials and overprivileged access. Plus, explore solutions like centralising IAM users, temporary credentials, and fully eliminating IAM users when possible.

Is App Runner better than Fargate?

Picture this. You’ve got a web app built with Rust and Solid.js. It started life running on a dusty on-prem server, but now it’s time to move it to the cloud. The clock is ticking. You could take the well-worn AWS path: set up a VPC, configure subnets, attach an ALB, define IAM roles, and deploy with Fargate. Or you could try something different.

AWS and Serverless

Using AWS Resource Access Manager to share an Aurora cluster for development

August 18, 2023

Check out Conor's latest blog.

It is an emerging best practice to create a discrete AWS account per workload and per environment, two main factors have enabled this strategy:

More and more AWS services are gaining deep integration with the AWS Organizations service and Individual services are implementing more cross-account functionality.
More mature Infrastructure as Code tooling and patterns have made managing dozens or 100s of accounts possible.