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Root user AWS
Can you delete a root user? No. You can delete the access key for the root user Can you CHANGE a root user? You can change the email associated with…
SSH on windows permissions for private key too open error
ssh -i MykeysPath myuser@IPAddress SSH on windows gives the following error Permissions for 'path_to_keys' are too open. It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.…
AWS Identity Architect – AWS IAM and EC2
Access to AWS Resources How does one grant access to resources within AWS? How does one distinguish between 'human users' and 'service accounts' (aka robo users) in AWS. In GCP,…
AWS Security Audit
aws security audit Also read - Google Cloud Security Audit Amazon Web Services is leading the public cloud space with an ever increasing list of service offerings. AWS EC2, S3…
Cloud Architect Interview Questions
cloud architect interview Over the last few years, I have been more involved with interviewing candidates for cloud architect level roles (as well as interviewing for positions myself). To that…
AWS DMS troubleshooting
aws dms troubleshooting Also read RDS Deep Dive Enable Cloudwatch Logs for your DMS Task This is a simple checkbox in the 'modify' section of your DMS Task. This is…
Terraform Basics and Helpful Commands
Overview These are just some quick recap notes and troubleshooting steps. There's much more to terraform, but this is a quick basics overview, getting started guide and a short troubleshooting…
Certbot with Apache
certbot and apache Prelim Concepts A .pfx file is a PKCS#12 archive. Typically, a PKCS#12 archive contains a certificate (possibly with its assorted set of CA certificates) and the corresponding private key. A .cert (or .cer or .crt)…
Apache on EC2
This is a short post summarizing some issues I encountered while installing apache on an EC2 - running amazon linux 2. (Also read Configuring Apache and Certbot. Also read -…
RDS Monitoring, RDS Snapshots and Failover – A Deeper Dive into AWS RDS
There's a lot more to AWS RDS than simply spinning up a multi-AZ RDS instance and connecting to it. DB (Manual) Snapshots versus Automated Snapshots You have the option to…