AWS
FivexL Newsletter, December 2025
Intro December is always an intense month in the AWS consulting land. On one hand, you have re:Invent with its barrage of announcements, presentations, and a lot of action to stay up-to-date with. On the other hand, it is the end of the year — which often means project deadlines. And on top of that, …
Bridging the Gap: Automating Group Assignments in AWS IAM Identity Center with SSO Elevator
Google Workspace SCIM provisioning to AWS IAM Identity Center does not sync groups - a frustrating limitation. SSO Elevator now offers a Terraform-native solution that automatically assigns users to groups based on their attributes, eliminating the need for external tools like ssosync.
MVP: PostgreSQL on AWS in 10 Minutes
A lot of MVP teams pick PostgreSQL because it’s familiar, powerful, and boring in the best way. Then they open the AWS console, click through defaults, and accidentally create a database that’s hard to secure, annoying to operate, and painful to make audit-friendly later. In our work …
FivexL Newsletter, November 2025
November was a busy month for us. We published two blog posts, our co-founder Andrey Devyatkin recorded a new podcast episode, and we pulled together a list of articles our teammates shared internally in Slack. December is already moving fast, and Christmas is just around the corner. Before everyone …
AWS Account Setup for Startups: Security and Cost Control Step by Step
If you’re building an MVP on AWS - especially in healthcare or fintech - the account setup decisions you make in week one will determine how easy or hard your first audit is. This guide covers the minimum viable AWS foundation: the security, cost, and compliance controls that every startup …
Building Resilience into SSO Elevator 3.1.0: Lessons from an AWS Outage
How a real AWS outage revealed hidden dependencies in SSO Elevator and led to version 3.1.0 with improved resilience through intelligent S3 caching. A practical guide to engineering for failure.