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Very simple process to create an image of your existing EC2 instance which can be used as a backup for changes or if you wanted to just have a copy around after application new releases or just a backup This process covers all the drives which is very nice...
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November 14, 2016 Hamza
Cloud
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AWS VPC peering connection is a logical connection between two VPC’s. It is like a point to point connection that uses AWS backbone to route traffic and you can consider it like connecting two data centers with a layer three link AWS VPC peering can be very granular...
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November 13, 2016 user
Cloud
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Expansion of the C drive/root partition is very simple and straight forward – however you will need to power off your instance per best practices so data does not change – however there are multiple ways to do this – this one involves just working the volume in question First...
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November 13, 2016 Hamza
Cloud
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This tutorial will walk you thru on setting up step by step multi-factor authentication on your AWS account Go to Security and Identity in AWS services Click on IAM Once you are in the IAM page Click on Users Pick the candidate users for MFA setup Double click the candidate user...
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November 12, 2016 Hamza
Cloud, Security
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Best practices are to protect your AWS account with MFA authentication – especially your root account which is most critical and has the super power rights to all of your AWS resources It is recommended that you set up to alerted when users logins below is a step by step process...
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November 11, 2016 Hamza
Cloud
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“aws configure” command lets you connect to your AWS account “aws iam cerate-user –user-name” command will let you create a user in the AWS account called “AWSCLITEST” “aws s3 ls” will list all the buckets for you in all regions – please S3 buckets are global “aws iam list-users” will...
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November 9, 2016 Hamza
Cloud
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On-demand pricing is much higher than the reserved Instance prices – In AWS reserved instances are set by type and not by instance ID – for example if you have an instance running as “Instance type t2.nano” and it needs to be up 24/7 and 365 days of the year and you...
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November 7, 2016 Hamza
Cloud
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If you are a command line guy then AWS CLI works for you and it can be downloaded from the following link – this article will walk you step by step to from start to finish with very little knowledge needed Windows 64 BIT Windows 32 Bit Once it...
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November 6, 2016 Hamza
Cloud
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Here are few thing to understand before you can create a VPN connection between AWS VPC and your work place or your lab at home. The VPN connection is limited/tied to single VPN what it means that if you are running multiple VPC’s then you will need multiple...
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October 14, 2016 Hamza
Cloud
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