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We are hiring a GenAI + Frontend Intern at Empulse Labs.

We build custom software and AI systems for SMBs, and you’ll work directly on real client/product work rather than just internal experiments.

What you’ll work on:

• Building quick websites and web apps
• Working with GenAI APIs and AI-powered features
• Building and iterating on frontend interfaces
• Prototyping ideas quickly and turning them into working products
• Using AI coding tools as part of the development workflow

What I’m looking for:

• Beginner to intermediate developer
• Students are welcome, personal projects count
• You don't need to have everything figured out
• Experience with Claude, Cursor, and Figma is a plus
• Strong willingness to learn and build

Details:

• Full-time
• Remote
• 9 AM – 5 PM IST
• Paid internship
• Potential for a full-time role after the internship

If you're interested, comment below and I'll DM you.

We are hiring a GenAI + Frontend Intern at Empulse Labs.

We build custom software and AI systems for SMBs, and you’ll work directly on real client/product work rather than just internal experiments.

What you’ll work on:

• Building quick websites and web apps
• Working with GenAI APIs and AI-powered features
• Building and iterating on frontend interfaces
• Prototyping ideas quickly and turning them into working products
• Using AI coding tools as part of the development workflow

What I’m looking for:

• Beginner to intermediate developer
• Students are welcome, personal projects count
• You don't need to have everything figured out
• Experience with Claude, Cursor, and Figma is a plus
• Strong willingness to learn and build

Details:

• Full-time
• Remote
• 9 AM – 5 PM IST
• Paid internship
• Potential for a full-time role after the internship

If you're interested, comment below and I'll DM you.

We are hiring a GenAI + Frontend Intern at Empulse Labs.

We build custom software and AI systems for SMBs, and you’ll work directly on real client/product work rather than just internal experiments.

What you’ll work on:

• Building quick websites and web apps
• Working with GenAI APIs and AI-powered features
• Building and iterating on frontend interfaces
• Prototyping ideas quickly and turning them into working products
• Using AI coding tools as part of the development workflow

What I’m looking for:

• Beginner to intermediate developer
• Students are welcome, personal projects count
• You don't need to have everything figured out
• Experience with Claude, Cursor, and Figma is a plus
• Strong willingness to learn and build

Details:

• Full-time
• Remote
• 9 AM – 5 PM IST
• Paid internship
• Potential for a full-time role after the internship

If you're interested, comment below and I'll DM you.

Hello,

I was able to configure the extension and when I distributed the extension with team they are not redirecting to microsoft idp instead of that they are moving to quick sso, so i am getting error of “something does not compute”

Please help us here, i have opened the support but as we don’t have business plans it will take days to be get response team. I am not able to find any documentation as well, AWS document only shows the entra setup create extension and distribute to user but i think it is not working for me. If someone here has already setup that please help me

Hello,

I was able to configure the extension and when I distributed the extension with team they are not redirecting to microsoft idp instead of that they are moving to quick sso, so i am getting error of “something does not compute”

Please help us here, i have opened the support but as we don’t have business plans it will take days to be get response team. I am not able to find any documentation as well, AWS document only shows the entra setup create extension and distribute to user but i think it is not working for me. If someone here has already setup that please help me

ACM Private CA is $400/month minimum before you've issued a single certificate. Roles Anywhere itself is free, but it needs a CA to trust, and that's basically the only paved-road option AWS gives you for one.

So I built my own. Two ways to run it:

A laptop-based version where the CA private key lives on your machine fine for messing around or a small POC, but you're trusting your laptop with the whole thing.

A KMS-backed version where the key never leaves AWS at all, issuance goes through a Lambda, and there's a public API endpoint (API key auth) so someone with zero AWS credentials can request their own certificate. Full audit trail in DynamoDB every cert issued, renewed, revoked, with timestamps and reasons.

Revocation is one call and it's actually enforced within seconds it publishes the CRL straight to Roles Anywhere in the same step, not just marked in a database somewhere and hoped for. There's also a reversible "disable" if you want to temporarily block someone without permanently killing their cert.

No external crypto dependencies anywhere the X.509/DER encoding is hand-rolled in plain Python, about 240 lines, so you can actually read the whole thing instead of trusting a library blindly.

Real cost, not a guess: ran it through the AWS Pricing Calculator for 2000 users and landed at about $1.25/month. https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=8bc0d34839e2c22287a2bc891ac321ee1cdeb114

There's already a well-automated AWS sample repo for this (`sample-aws-iam-roles-anywhere-automation`), but it deploys ACM Private CA under the hood, which is the exact cost this exists to avoid. If you're fine paying for that, it's a solid option. If the cost is what's stopping you, this gets you to the same place for a couple bucks a month.

GitHub: github.com/vireshsolanki/iam-roles-anywhere-automation

Curious if anyone else here has been running Roles Anywhere and what your CA situation looks like. It's open source and I'd rather it be actually useful for other people's setups than just mine, so if something doesn't work for your environment, open an issue and let me know I'll work on it.

ACM Private CA is $400/month minimum before you've issued a single certificate. Roles Anywhere itself is free, but it needs a CA to trust, and that's basically the only paved-road option AWS gives you for one.

So I built my own. Two ways to run it:

A laptop-based version where the CA private key lives on your machine fine for messing around or a small POC, but you're trusting your laptop with the whole thing.

A KMS-backed version where the key never leaves AWS at all, issuance goes through a Lambda, and there's a public API endpoint (API key auth) so someone with zero AWS credentials can request their own certificate. Full audit trail in DynamoDB every cert issued, renewed, revoked, with timestamps and reasons.

Revocation is one call and it's actually enforced within seconds it publishes the CRL straight to Roles Anywhere in the same step, not just marked in a database somewhere and hoped for. There's also a reversible "disable" if you want to temporarily block someone without permanently killing their cert.

No external crypto dependencies anywhere the X.509/DER encoding is hand-rolled in plain Python, about 240 lines, so you can actually read the whole thing instead of trusting a library blindly.

Real cost, not a guess: ran it through the AWS Pricing Calculator for 2000 users and landed at about $1.25/month. https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=8bc0d34839e2c22287a2bc891ac321ee1cdeb114

There's already a well-automated AWS sample repo for this (`sample-aws-iam-roles-anywhere-automation`), but it deploys ACM Private CA under the hood, which is the exact cost this exists to avoid. If you're fine paying for that, it's a solid option. If the cost is what's stopping you, this gets you to the same place for a couple bucks a month.

GitHub: github.com/vireshsolanki/iam-roles-anywhere-automation

Curious if anyone else here has been running Roles Anywhere and what your CA situation looks like. It's open source and I'd rather it be actually useful for other people's setups than just mine, so if something doesn't work for your environment, open an issue and let me know I'll work on it.

ACM Private CA is $400/month minimum before you've issued a single certificate. Roles Anywhere itself is free, but it needs a CA to trust, and that's basically the only paved-road option AWS gives you for one.


So I built my own. Two ways to run it:


A laptop-based version where the CA private key lives on your machine  fine for messing around or a small POC, but you're trusting your laptop with the whole thing.


A KMS-backed version where the key never leaves AWS at all, issuance goes through a Lambda, and there's a public API endpoint (API key auth) so someone with zero AWS credentials can request their own certificate. Full audit trail in DynamoDB  every cert issued, renewed, revoked, with timestamps and reasons.


Revocation is one call and it's actually enforced within seconds  it publishes the CRL straight to Roles Anywhere in the same step, not just marked in a database somewhere and hoped for. There's also a reversible "disable" if you want to temporarily block someone without permanently killing their cert.


No external crypto dependencies anywhere  the X.509/DER encoding is hand-rolled in plain Python, about 240 lines, so you can actually read the whole thing instead of trusting a library blindly.


Real cost, not a guess: ran it through the AWS Pricing Calculator for 2000 users and landed at about $1.25/month. https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=8bc0d34839e2c22287a2bc891ac321ee1cdeb114


There's already a well-automated AWS sample repo for this (`sample-aws-iam-roles-anywhere-automation`), but it deploys ACM Private CA under the hood, which is the exact cost this exists to avoid. If you're fine paying for that, it's a solid option. If the cost is what's stopping you, this gets you to the same place for a couple bucks a month.


GitHub: github.com/vireshsolanki/iam-roles-anywhere-automation


Curious if anyone else here has been running Roles Anywhere and what your CA situation looks like. It's open source and I'd rather it be actually useful for other people's setups than just mine, so if something doesn't work for your environment, open an issue and let me know  I'll work on it.

ACM Private CA is $400/month minimum before you've issued a single certificate. Roles Anywhere itself is free, but it needs a CA to trust, and that's basically the only paved-road option AWS gives you for one.


So I built my own. Two ways to run it:


A laptop-based version where the CA private key lives on your machine  fine for messing around or a small POC, but you're trusting your laptop with the whole thing.


A KMS-backed version where the key never leaves AWS at all, issuance goes through a Lambda, and there's a public API endpoint (API key auth) so someone with zero AWS credentials can request their own certificate. Full audit trail in DynamoDB  every cert issued, renewed, revoked, with timestamps and reasons.


Revocation is one call and it's actually enforced within seconds  it publishes the CRL straight to Roles Anywhere in the same step, not just marked in a database somewhere and hoped for. There's also a reversible "disable" if you want to temporarily block someone without permanently killing their cert.


No external crypto dependencies anywhere  the X.509/DER encoding is hand-rolled in plain Python, about 240 lines, so you can actually read the whole thing instead of trusting a library blindly.


Real cost, not a guess: ran it through the AWS Pricing Calculator for 2000 users and landed at about $1.25/month. https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=8bc0d34839e2c22287a2bc891ac321ee1cdeb114


There's already a well-automated AWS sample repo for this (`sample-aws-iam-roles-anywhere-automation`), but it deploys ACM Private CA under the hood, which is the exact cost this exists to avoid. If you're fine paying for that, it's a solid option. If the cost is what's stopping you, this gets you to the same place for a couple bucks a month.


GitHub: github.com/vireshsolanki/iam-roles-anywhere-automation


Curious if anyone else here has been running Roles Anywhere and what your CA situation looks like. It's open source and I'd rather it be actually useful for other people's setups than just mine, so if something doesn't work for your environment, open an issue and let me know  I'll work on it.

I built and open-sourced AWS Calculator MCP, a small tool that solves a friction point I hit every day: estimating AWS costs without clicking through the UI.

What it does:

Describe your AWS infrastructure in plain English:

"2 t3.large EC2 with 50GB, RDS MySQL db.m5.large 100GB, 500GB S3, an ALB"

It returns a real calculator.aws estimate link with costs already filled in:

https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=8c3cf1097ccee1b08379067d882c064acb889503

No JSON, no AWS account login, no manual form-filling. Click the link and you see the exact costs on the official calculator.

How it works:

- Parses plain English (handles typos: lamda → Lambda, buckit → s3)

- Builds the correct AWS calculator payload for each service

- Opens a headless browser, fills forms, saves the result

- Returns the official calculator ID with real baked costs

It works as:

- MCP server for Claude, Cursor, VS Code

- CLI: aws-calc --prompt "your infra"

- REST API (self-hosted)

Supported: ~50 AWS services (EC2, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Bedrock, OpenSearch, API Gateway, KMS, Cognito, WAF, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and more)

Why open source?

AWS cost estimation should be transparent, shareable, and community-driven. I'm looking for your input:

- What's missing?

- What would make this useful for your team?

- What edge cases break it?

GitHub: https://github.com/vireshsolanki/aws-calculator-mcp

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/aws-calculator-mcp/

Open an issue if you find a broken estimate or have ideas for new services.

For FinOps and cost optimization teams: AWS Calculator MCP.

The ask: "Design an AWS infrastructure for N users" → you need to generate 5–10 calculator estimates to compare regions, commitment options, and architecture trade-offs.

Current workflow:

1. Copy the spec into Notepad

2. Click through the AWS calculator 10 times (one per estimate)

3. Paste each cost into a spreadsheet

4. Compare manually

New workflow:

aws-calc --prompt "Growth tier stack in us-east-1"

aws-calc --prompt "Same stack in ap-south-1"

aws-calc --prompt "Same stack in eu-west-1"

→ 3 real calculator links in seconds

Use it for:

- Regional cost comparisons (us-east-1 vs ap-south-1 vs eu-west-1)

- Commitment analysis (on-demand vs 1yr vs 3yr savings plans)

- Architecture trade-offs (serverless vs compute-heavy)

- Cost modeling for RFPs and proposals

- Audit trail (calculator links are shareable and point to real AWS data)

Example — Regional Cost Comparison (same growth tier config):

us-east-1: $2,447/mo

ap-south-1 (Mumbai): $2,704/mo (+11%)

ap-southeast-1 (Singapore): $2,847/mo (+16%)

eu-west-1 (Ireland): $2,707/mo (+11%)

All real calculator.aws links. Click any and see the itemized breakdown.

For cost models:

- Plain English specs are auditable and non-technical stakeholders can review them

- Calculator links are proof — you're not estimating, you're reading AWS's own prices

- Works for baseline, pessimistic, and optimistic scenarios

Install: pip install aws-calculator-mcp

GitHub: https://github.com/vireshsolanki/aws-calculator-mcp

If you find an estimate that doesn't match the real calculator, please open an issue. FinOps is about accuracy, so feedback is critical.

I open-sourced AWS Calculator MCP, a tool that converts plain English AWS infrastructure descriptions into official AWS Pricing Calculator links with real costs already computed.

GitHub: https://github.com/vireshsolanki/aws-calculator-mcp

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/aws-calculator-mcp/

What it does:

Describe your AWS setup in plain English → get an official calculator.aws link with costs filled in.

"2 t3.large EC2 with 50GB, RDS MySQL 100GB, 500GB S3, an ALB"

→ $352.13/mo

→ https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=...

No AWS account, no logins, no JSON. Just plain English.

Works as:

- MCP server for Claude, Cursor, VS Code

- CLI: aws-calc --prompt "your infrastructure"

- REST API (self-hosted or Render/Railway)

Why open source?

AWS cost estimation should be transparent, shareable, and community-driven. Proprietary calculators and spreadsheets hide bias. This tool:

- Uses real AWS calculator (not approximations)

- Returns shareable links (proof, not guesses)

- Open for anyone to improve

I built this because every infrastructure conversation ended with "let me check the calculator" — now I just ask Claude.

Looking for feedback:

- What services are missing?

- What edge cases break the parser?

- How would you use this in your workflow?

The goal: Make this a standard tool for FinOps, DevOps, architects, and AI agents estimating AWS costs.

Let's build this together.

GitHub: https://github.com/vireshsolanki/aws-calculator-mcp