This blog post is the follow up and hopefully will provide more details for Amazonians attending Sydney AWS User Group running on 5th August 2015. We started the session with Ashley Madison story which inspired the title of the session: Life is Short Have an Affair when You get Hacked We don't know where the Ashley Madison … Continue reading Life is Short When You Get Hacked – Sydney AWS User Group
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AWS Direct Connect in Australia via Equinix Cloud Exchange
We have discussed Azure ExpressRoute via Equinix Cloud Exchange on my previous blog. Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) also provides AWS Direct Connect connectivity which means you can share the same physical link (1GBps or 10GBps) between Azure and AWS! ECX also provides connectivity service to AWS for connection speed less than 1GBps. AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated, private connectivity between your WAN or datacenter and AWS services such as AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
AWS Direct Connect via Equinix Cloud Exchange is Exchange (IXP) provider based allowing us to extend our infrastructure that is:
- Private: The connection is dedicated bypassing the public Internet which means better performance, increases security, consistent throughput and enables hybrid cloud use cases (Even hybrid with Azure when both connectivity using Equinix Cloud Exchange)
- Redundancy: If we configured second AWS Direct Connect connection, traffic will failover to the second link…
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Automate your Cloud Operations Part 2: AWS CloudFormation
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
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
Azure Sydney User Group February 2015: Azure Eye for the AWS Guy
Azure Sydney User Group for First 2015 Edition kicked-off with great start. Simon Waight, Andreas Wasita (me) and Scott Scovell was presenting at 11th Feb 2015. Simon and me had extensive experience with AWS especially on Enterprise space, Scott Scovell is master of integration with more than 5 years experience in Azure with AWS skills … Continue reading Azure Sydney User Group February 2015: Azure Eye for the AWS Guy
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
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