Your first Lambda function on AWS with Python using the AWS CLI. Today we will use the AWS CLI Tools to create a Basic Lambda Function that will use the requests library to make a GET request to a Random…
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AWS - Using Python and Boto3 to get Information about Untagged EC2 resources
Just a quick post on a Python script to scan through all your EC2 Instances in the Specified Region, and if there's no Tags associated to the resource, the script will print information out about the resources in question. Below…
Amazon EMR Performance Comparison dealing with Hadoops SmallFiles Problem
Today I would like to have a dive into Job Performance with Hadoop, running on the Managed Hadoop Framework of Amazon Web Services, which is Elastic MapReduce (EMR). Hadoop does not deal well with lots of small files, and I…
AWS IAM Users and Groups: Encrypt and Decrypt Data using KMS via the CLI
In our previous post we went through the process on controlling access using the CLI for IAM, to Create a IAM Policy, Associating the Policy to a Group and Creating Users within the group to inherit the policy, in order…
How to Control Access with AWS IAM for Users and Groups using the CLI for Granting S3 Access
In this post, we will use Identity Access Management (IAM) on AWS to Control Access for our Groups and Users using the CLI, and as an example use-case, we will be allowing S3 Access for Users that is associated to…
Using the AWS CLI Tools to interact with Amazons Athena Service
window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us15.list-manage.com","uuid":"3dfcff447b6ee598231eeb658","lid":"5c36081d06","uniqueMethods":true}) }) In this Tutorial we will use the AWS CLI tools to Interact with Amazon Athena. What is Amazon Athena: Athena…
AWS: Access Kibana 5 behind ELB via Nginx Reverse Proxy on Custom DNS
Update: [amazon-web-services-releases-elasticsearch-vpc-support/] (https://sysadmins.co.za/amazon-web-services-releases-elasticsearch-vpc-support/) In one of my previous posts: Secure Access to Kibana on AWS Elasticsearch Service, I walked you through on how to setup Basic HTTP Authentication to secure your Kibana UI. window.dojoRequire(["mojo/…
Unable to Launch EMR Clusters with Cronjobs
The Issue: I was trying to Schedule the Launch of EMR Clusters using Cronjobs where I have noticed that it fails via cronjobs but passes via cli. The reasoning behind this in my experience was that the PATH variable that…