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Monitoring GuardDuty Findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events

2023-05-27T08:47:29+00:00

Large scale cyber attacks are now becoming normal in this age of interconnectivity. As we rely more and more on cloud technologies, companies are looking to tap into digital innovations to improve their businesses. Cyber attacks are costing companies millions of dollars of downtime not to mention the possibility of lawsuits whenever an attack occurs. It is imperative that security teams have the means to prevent, detect, and take actions to ensure that the security of their workloads in AWS are airtight. Amazon GuardDuty was released during the 2017 re:Invent conference. Amazon GuardDuty is an agentless threat detection service that [...]

Monitoring GuardDuty Findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events2023-05-27T08:47:29+00:00

Aurora Serverless Tutorial Part 2

2023-05-27T08:37:50+00:00

In the first part of this tutorial, we gave a walkthrough on Aurora Serverless and its use case. You can read the article here. For this tutorial, we will do some hands-on training and create an Aurora Serverless database. Creating an Aurora Serverless Database: 1. Open the AWS console and go to RDS. Click the button “Create database”. 2. Choose Amazon Aurora. You can either choose MySQL or PostgreSQL compatibility. In this tutorial, we will use MySQL compatibility. As of this writing, there are two versions of MySQL that Aurora serverless supports. Under the Database Features, select serverless. 3. Under [...]

Aurora Serverless Tutorial Part 22023-05-27T08:37:50+00:00

Aurora Serverless Tutorial – Part 1

2023-06-02T02:06:31+00:00

What is Aurora Serverless?  Before we get into it, let us briefly define Aurora and serverless first. Aurora is a fully managed, closed source relational database that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. According to Amazon, it is five times faster than the standard MySQL and three times faster than PostgreSQL. It uses a distributed architecture that provides fault tolerance and high availability.  Serverless is a technique in the cloud that follows the ‘pay-per-use’ model. As opposed to its name, serverless does not mean not using ‘servers’. There is no magic in it. It still uses a physical server that [...]

Aurora Serverless Tutorial – Part 12023-06-02T02:06:31+00:00

Lifecycle Event Hooks in CodeDeploy

2023-06-02T02:57:06+00:00

Bookmarks Events Things To Consider In biology, life cycle refers to the series of stages or events that occur during an organism’s lifetime. Lifecycle also applies when automating software deployment on AWS CodeDeploy. Lifecycle event hooks refer to the series of events that describes how a deployment is accomplished. It allows you to control or perform actions on different stages of your deployment. In the traditional way, whenever you release a new feature for your application, you would have to manually disable the app and install the code. If the code resides in a repository [...]

Lifecycle Event Hooks in CodeDeploy2023-06-02T02:57:06+00:00

Amazon EBS Multi-Attach

2023-02-22T14:28:05+00:00

Amazon Elastic Block Store or EBS is a durable block-based storage device that can be attached to your EC2 instance. AWS released a feature called Multi-Attach, which allows EC2 instances to share a single EBS volume for up to 16 instances and provide higher availability of your applications for Linux workloads. Each instance to which the volume is attached has full read and write permissions to the volume. The following are several considerations and limitations in using the Multi-Attach feature: Multi-Attach enabled volumes do not support I/O fencing. I/O fencing protocols control write access in a shared storage environment to [...]

Amazon EBS Multi-Attach2023-02-22T14:28:05+00:00

Amazon SES

2023-06-23T08:29:34+00:00

Bookmarks Common Use Cases Features Methods of Sending Emails Testing Amazon SES Concepts Email Authentication Methods Email Sending Requests Dedicated IP Addresses vs Amazon SES IP Addresses Security Pricing Limits Amazon SES Cheat Sheet A cost-effective and scalable email service that enables you to send mail from within any application. A regional service. Amazon SES is for applications that need to send communications via email. Amazon SES supports custom email header fields and many MIME types. Amazon SNS is for messaging-oriented applications, with multiple subscribers requesting [...]

Amazon SES2023-06-23T08:29:34+00:00

AWS Certification Path

2023-05-19T19:33:43+00:00

Before jumping into the different AWS certification paths, it's good to first learn the benefits of being AWS certified through this short article. It is also important to note that AWS has scrapped the prerequisite for Professional-level exams. Previously, you could only take the Professional-level exams (Solutions Architect Professional and DevOps Engineer Professional) after passing their Associate-level counterparts. Now, you can take any AWS exam without the need to pass any prior AWS exam, which is ideal for those who already have extensive working experience in the industry.   In this short article, we'll learn more about the AWS Certification program [...]

AWS Certification Path2023-05-19T19:33:43+00:00

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

2023-06-23T06:29:32+00:00

Bookmarks How it Works Common Use Cases Components Of QLDB Performance Scalability Reliability Backup and Restore Security Pricing Limitations Amazon Quantum Ledger Database Cheat Sheet Fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log ‎owned by a central trusted authority. Used to track all application data changes, and maintain a complete and verifiable history of changes over time Amazon QLDB is serverless.  No capacity provisioning required or setting read/write limits. QLDB transactions are ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) compliant. Amazon QLDB [...]

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)2023-06-23T06:29:32+00:00

Amazon DocumentDB

2024-11-14T09:08:14+00:00

Bookmarks How it Works Performance Scaling Reliability Backup and Restore Security Pricing Limitations Amazon DocumentDB Cheat Sheet Fully managed document database service designed to be fast, scalable, and highly available. Data is stored in JSON-like documents. Compatible with MongoDb. Flexible schema and indexing. Commonly used for content management, user profiles, and real-time big data. How it Works   An Amazon DocumentDB cluster decouples storage and compute. A cluster consists of Cluster volume and Instances Cluster volume refers to the storage layer that spans multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone [...]

Amazon DocumentDB2024-11-14T09:08:14+00:00

AWS DataSync vs Storage Gateway

2024-01-18T06:27:52+00:00

Learn more about the use cases and differences between AWS Data Sync and Storage Gateway in this comparison table:   DataSync Storage Gateway Description AWS DataSync is an online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates the process of copying large amounts of data to and from AWS storage services over the Internet or over AWS Direct Connect. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage by linking it to S3. Storage Gateway provides 3 types of storage interfaces for your on-premises applications: file, volume, and tape. How [...]

AWS DataSync vs Storage Gateway2024-01-18T06:27:52+00:00

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