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
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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
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 [https://bekkerclothing.com/collections/developer?utm_source=sysadmins.co.za&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=
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 [https://www.terraform.io/]: "Terraform enables you to safely and predictably
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
Your First Python Lambda Function on AWS Using the AWS CLI Tools
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
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
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
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