In this tutorial we will be using Amazons DynamoDB (DynamoDB Local) to host a sample dataset consisting of music data that I retrieved from the iTunes API, which we will be using the aws cli tools to interact with the…
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Using AWS SSM Parameter Store to Retrieve Secrets Encrypted by KMS using Python
Today we will use Amazon Web Services SSM Service to store secrets in their Parameter Store which we will encyrpt using KMS. Then we will read the data from SSM and decrypt using our KMS key. We will then end…
Expanding the Size of your EBS Volume on AWS EC2 for Linux
Resizing your EBS Volume on the fly, that is attached to your EC2 Linux instance, on Amazon Web Services. We want to resize our EBS Volume from 100GB to 1000GB and at the moment my EBS Volume is 100GB, as…
Using AWS SSM Parameter Store to Retrieve Secrets Encrypted by KMS using Python
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provides secure storage for configuration data management and secrets management, which allows you to store sensitive iformation like passwords that you can encrypt with your KMS key. Today we will use Amazon Web Services SSM…
Authenticate to your AWS RDS MySQL Instance via IAM
On Amazon Web Services with RDS for MySQL or Aurora with MySQL compatibility, you can authenticate to your Database instance or cluster using IAM for database authentication. The benefit of using this authentication method is that you don't need to…
API Gateway with Lambda using Python on AWS to Post info to Rocketchat
Today we will setup a API Gateway which has a Lambda Function, written in Python which we will setup using the AWS CLI What we will be doing: We will setup an API Endpoint that we will use to post…
Deploy an EC2 Instance with Terraform
Today we will test out Terraform and do a Basic Deployment by Launching an EC2 Instance on Amazon Web Services. What is Terraform: As described from their website: "Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve…
Amazon Web Services Releases Elasticsearch VPC Support
AWS have recently announced VPC Support for Amazons Elasticsearch Service, which is a big win! The official announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/amazon-elasticsearch-service-announces-support-for-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc/ Elasticsearch Private IP Based Authorization: This essentially means that you can now allow…