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AWS IAM and Monitoring
Why do you need Roles? Instances and Apps On Instances need to access AWS services. Say an S3 bucket. Now, you can either provide access keys to accomplish this. But…
AWS Elasticache
Access to Cache cluster from OUTSIDE of AWS – Use a NAT Instance
cloudformation basics
Why Automate? Reproducible - Automate infrastructure creation Automatic Dependencies – what to create first , second, next - are resolved automatically – based on the References (Refs) in the stack…
Failover and Disaster Recovery Questions to Ask Customers
1. Is it a purely failover scenario or 'failover and fallback'? 2. How will DNS resolution work for the failover environment? 3. How will user authentication to the web app…
Socks proxy as an alternative to VPN tunnels to AWS
Ideally, you need a VPN tunnel between your on premises desktops and the AWS VPCs. However, there is a shorter cut to accomplish a secured, over the internet connection without…
Find all active resources in an AWS Account
Go into Resource Group. Under Resource Group, select "Tag Editor" Select all the regions and All the resources that you ; Don’t fill in any tags to fetches all the…
AWS Managed Directory Services (including AWS Microsoft AD)–Q and A
Can I use AWS Managed Microsoft AD as a primary directory? Yes. You can use it as a primary directory to manage users, groups, computers, and Group Policy objects (GPOs)…
Amazon linux EC2 install certbot
Amazon Linux EC2 only wget --no-check-certificate chmod a+x ./certbot-auto sudo yum -y install python-pip sudo pip install cryptography sudo pip install certbot Installing on any other (not amazon linux)…
AWS Managed AD versus Self Managed AD DS on AWS
Use Case One – Replicate all on premises AD Objects to AWS. Redirect all external apps, SaaS apps to authenticate against a Single entry point (the AWS Managed AD) Use…
Powershell to Create AD Trust
Launch Powershell cmd prompt from the programs menu. Inside the cmd prompt , type Get-ADTrust if it fails - do this first : import-module activedirectory Once you have the module,…