One of the most annoying parts of setting up Elastic Search on AWS is the way access is configured for that service. From what i've gathered you have one of two options to protect it:

1. Make sure it's running internally only (i.e. not internet facing and only available to the other services on the same VPC)
2. Completely open to the internet and eventually relying (if you can make it work) on the Cognito authentication service

Typically you would, as we did, go for the path of least resistance ...

In this tutorial we discuss how to implement both text and image based compasses for use in any game where you need to provide a sense of direction to the player.

We recently started using this outstanding devops tool called Terraform at Drover. Basically it allows us to describe how we want our environments to be and apply that "plan" automatically. It's a bit like Ansible and its playbooks concept but - IMO - does a better job at tracking what resources exist and in which state they are in.

Think about it like writing down what your environment looks like, in terms of pretty much everything (load balancing, dns, servers, networking, connectivity, ser...