Stacking the AWS CloudFormation Automate your Cloud Operations blog post Part 1 have given us the basic understanding on how to automate the AWS stack using CloudFormation. This post will help the reader on how to layer the stack on top of the existing AWS CloudFormation stack using AWS CloudFormation instead of modifying the base template. AWS resources … Continue reading Automate your Cloud Operations Part 2: AWS CloudFormation
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Automate your Cloud Operations Part 1: AWS CloudFormation
Operations What is Operations? In the IT world, Operations refers to a team or department within IT which is responsible for the running of a business' IT systems and infrastructure. So what kind of activities this team perform on day to day basis? Building, modifying, provisioning, updating systems, software and infrastructure to keep them available, … Continue reading Automate your Cloud Operations Part 1: AWS CloudFormation
Offensive Security on AWS Part 1
The cyber crime has taken a new landscape to the cloud. Many businesses have not taken notice the shared responsibility model when they start migrating their production and critical workloads to the cloud. I wrote a blog regarding this on Kloud blog. 2014 data breach has reached the highest point all time. Because of the public availability … Continue reading Offensive Security on AWS Part 1
Migrating SQL dbase to Amazon RDS
Today post will be discussing more into Amazon RDS ( Relational Database Service ). How do We migrate our existing SQL Server database to Amazon RDS. Assuming You already have SQL Server Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS) database up and running. Next You will need following: 1. Your RDS Endpoint: “yyyy.xxxxxxxxxx.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com” for example 2. Your … Continue reading Migrating SQL dbase to Amazon RDS
Bees with Machine Guns on AWS EC2
As promised, this post will explain in more details how to set up 'Bees with Machine Guns'. This tool is invaluable on my arsenal for testing web server or cluster of web servers handling load in the form bunch or swarm I can say HTTP requests. I am using this tool the test ELB, Auto … Continue reading Bees with Machine Guns on AWS EC2
Amazon Linux AMI user name and su
I noticed there are few questions out there on other blogs and other forums. If You are Windows user and using Putty SSHing AWS AMI ec2 instance below is useful information for You. What is the username when Putty prompted you with login as: ec2-user What is the root / admin password for the instance … Continue reading Amazon Linux AMI user name and su
New Provisioned IOPS up to 4000 means to Us
Few days ago AWS announced their new tweak for EBS ( Elastic Block Store ). Now We can provision EBS up to 4000 IOPS. This is fourfold increase from the original EBS Provisioned IOPS Volume. Means You can hit it up to 4000 IOPS and up to 1TB of storage provisioned IOPS. Means You do … Continue reading New Provisioned IOPS up to 4000 means to Us
Granulate access to your S3 bucket
Granulate access to your S3 bucket Previously, I have posted how to create S3 bucket and how to alias a domain / sub-domain to S3. This post will guide You how to create single access to your S3 bucket. AWS console can be daunting sometimes. AWS console has provided good foundation to interact with all … Continue reading Granulate access to your S3 bucket
Alias a Domain / Sub Domain Name to your S3 Bucket
Jump Start our Journey to the Kloud. Amazon clearly provides simple Storage and cheap bandwidth for their S3 services, not mentioning their other features and scalability they offer. There are few requirements before this Journey : First of all, obviously, you need your own domain name and your own Amazon S3 account Second, You need … Continue reading Alias a Domain / Sub Domain Name to your S3 Bucket
EMC + IBM x SoftLayer = AWS Rival ?
Two Technology Giants are considering at buying major infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider SoftLayer in a deal that could be worth staggering more than $2 Billion Reuters reports. Dallas-based IaaS company SoftLayer closely competes with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, and others. SoftLayer is a popular choice for IaaS proven by having more than 25,000 small-to-huge … Continue reading EMC + IBM x SoftLayer = AWS Rival ?
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