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About Kenneth Samonte

Kenneth is an AWS Architect & Linux System Administrator. He's a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, and a VMware Certified Professional. He's also a registered Electronics Engineer and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). He enjoys exploring cloud platforms and administering Linux systems. When he's not busy, you’ll find him online playing League of Legends.

Cost Allocation Tags on Amazon S3 Buckets and Using AWS Cost Explorer

2023-05-27T12:51:02+00:00

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is one of the most popular cloud-based storage solutions by AWS. Amazon S3 offers flexibility for various applications and is widely used across multiple use cases as it offers durability, availability, and cost-effectiveness. It allows users to store, manage, and securely access petabyte-scale data from the AWS cloud.   By default, Amazon Billing shows how much data and cost is incurred for the cumulative storage cost and usage of all S3 buckets in each region. Because it is very easy to create multiple S3 buckets and upload objects to them, customers such as startups, small [...]

Cost Allocation Tags on Amazon S3 Buckets and Using AWS Cost Explorer2023-05-27T12:51:02+00:00

Default Host Management Configuration on AWS Systems Manager

2023-04-10T03:01:04+00:00

AWS Systems Manager’s Fleet Manager is a useful tool for managing Amazon EC2 instances on your account. It allows you to establish a private session to your instances, view detailed information about the instance, run automation such as patch installations, or execute specific Run commands to the instance’s operating system. It can also be used to manage on-premises servers or virtual machines. Using AWS Systems Manager tools requires that an IAM role is created and attached as an instance profile to your EC2 instances. It also requires that the Systems Manager Agent is installed on the instances. The Systems Manager [...]

Default Host Management Configuration on AWS Systems Manager2023-04-10T03:01:04+00:00

Using Amazon Route 53 Resolver

2023-04-26T07:42:04+00:00

In the previous blog post, we talked about Split-view DNS using Amazon Route 53, in which the DNS server gives out a different response to the same DNS query based on where the query came from. This is helpful if you are in a hybrid environment when you want an internal application to resolve a domain from a private hosted zone and external applications to resolve from a public hosted zone in Route 53. In hybrid environments, configuring Amazon Route 53 hosted zones can be tricky. Your VPC and on-premises resources may need to resolve DNS names hosted on the [...]

Using Amazon Route 53 Resolver2023-04-26T07:42:04+00:00

Split-view DNS using Amazon Route 53

2023-04-27T03:53:16+00:00

What is Amazon Route 53? Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service. This allows you to do Split-view DNS or Split-horizon DNS implementation for your applications. It offers additional features that are not present from third-party domain registrars. Route 53 allows you to register domain names, route internet traffic to specific resources under your domain name using different routing policies and check the health status of your resources. Route 53 is highly integrated with other AWS services, especially resources under a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The main function of Route 53 is for [...]

Split-view DNS using Amazon Route 532023-04-27T03:53:16+00:00

OpenAI’s ChatGPT vs Amazon Lex

2023-06-25T03:35:43+00:00

What is ChatGPT? OpenAI’s ChatGPT is an improved version of the GPT3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer, released in 2020) language model specifically designed to generate human-like text for chatbot applications. ChatGPT is trained on a large dataset of conversation transcripts and is able to generate appropriate responses to a wide range of inputs, including questions and prompts. ChatGPT uses a transformer architecture, which is a type of neural network designed for natural language processing tasks. ChatGPT’s language model is fined-tuned with supervised learning and reinforcement learning which means that human feedback is included in the training process. The training process includes [...]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT vs Amazon Lex2023-06-25T03:35:43+00:00

ECS Network Modes Comparison

2023-06-02T03:02:15+00:00

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) allows you to run Docker-based containers on the cloud. Amazon ECS has two launch types for operation: EC2 and Fargate. The EC2 launch type provides EC2 instances as hosts for your Docker containers. For the Fargate launch type, AWS manages the underlying hosts so you can focus on managing your containers instead. The details and configuration on how you want to run your containers are defined on the ECS Task Definition which includes options on networking mode.  In this post, we’ll talk about the different networking modes supported by Amazon ECS and determine which mode [...]

ECS Network Modes Comparison2023-06-02T03:02:15+00:00

Configuring Notifications for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

2023-06-03T05:15:48+00:00

Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks In the previous post, we talked about Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks and how to configure it on your Auto Scaling group. You can view the article here. It’s better to read it first before proceeding with this section. In a nutshell, Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks allow you to put an instance in the “wait” state while the Auto Scaling group responds to a scale-out or scale-in event. While the instance is in the “wait” state, you perform actions such as installing the application before allowing traffic to the instance or sending out the application logs to [...]

Configuring Notifications for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks2023-06-03T05:15:48+00:00

AWS Secrets Manager vs Systems Manager Parameter Store

2023-06-23T05:17:07+00:00

Bookmarks AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store AWS Secrets Manager Similarities and Differences Managing the security of your applications is an integral part of any organization especially for infrastructures deployed in the cloud. One aspect of application security is how the parameters such as environment variables, database passwords, API keys, product keys, etc. are stored and retrieved. As a best practice, secret information should not be stored in plain text and not be embedded inside your source code. It is also recommended to set up an automated system to rotate passwords or keys regularly (which [...]

AWS Secrets Manager vs Systems Manager Parameter Store2023-06-23T05:17:07+00:00

Step Scaling vs Simple Scaling Policies vs Target Tracking Policies in Amazon EC2

2023-06-23T05:27:39+00:00

Bookmarks Simple Scaling  Target Tracking Step Scaling  Creating a Step Scaling Policy for an Auto Scaling Group Amazon’s EC2 Auto Scaling provides an effective way to ensure that your infrastructure is able to dynamically respond to changing user demands. For example, to accommodate a sudden traffic increase on your web application, you can set your Auto Scaling group to automatically add more instances. And when traffic is low, have it automatically reduce the number of instances. This is a cost-effective solution since it only provisions EC2 instances when you need them. EC2 Auto [...]

Step Scaling vs Simple Scaling Policies vs Target Tracking Policies in Amazon EC22023-06-23T05:27:39+00:00

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

2023-06-05T02:08:11+00:00

Bookmarks Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks Configure Lifecycle Hooks on your Auto Scaling Groups Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows you to scale-out or scale-in your EC2 instances automatically based on policies you configured in response to changing demand on your application. Auto Scaling Groups lets you set a minimum and maximum number of EC2 instances to automatically resize your cluster based on a defined schedule or instance metrics such as CPU utilization, network traffic, etc. This is an excellent way to cut costs and make sure you have the correct number of instances since traffic on [...]

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks2023-06-05T02:08:11+00:00

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