Showdown: battle of the work from home headphones Overview Over the past few years, I’ve used a lot of work-from-home headphones. I’ve found myself at the point of a Goldilocks & 3 bears scenario a few times now; what headset is right for me?! SPOILER Jump to Troy’s pick! Showdown: battle of the …

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Amazon S3 Milestones Amazon S3 is celebrating its 15th Birthday between March 15th - March 18th 2021! To help celebrate, AWS is marking this occasion by offering a fantastic week of in-depth streams & live events. Come join here » AWS Pi Week 2021: The Birth of the AWS Cloud It’s difficult to pick a …

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AWS Security: a curated list of repositories Overview These lists will curate some of the latest GitHub repositories that assist with deploying to AWS using Terraform. I’ll keep this list updated over time! AWS Account Security https://github.com/nozaq/terraform-aws-secure-baseline Terraform module to set up …

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Install AWS Cli aws https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ Table of Contents EC2 List Instance ID, Type and Name List Instances with Public IP Address and Name List of VPCs and CIDR IP Block List of Subnets for a VPC List of Security Groups Print Security Groups for an Instance Edit Security Groups of an Instance Print …

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The document debacle Companies continue to fight the battle of the age-old problem: paper documents. Adapting to document modernization to expand the ability to search, catalog and protect HIPAA\PII data is paramount. In this article, we will cover how you can integrate a server-less pipeline within AWS to tackle the …

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AWS re:Invent 2020 - Andy Jassy Keynote Here’s a recap of what was announced in Andy Jassy’s 2020 AWS re:Invent Keynote; a lot of very exciting announcements to unpack here! Summary Amazon EC2 D3 and D3en Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS EC2 C6gn Instances Amazon EC2 instances powered by Habana Gaudi AWS …

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AWS Certified Security: Specialty Overview The AWS Certified Security: Specialty is geared towards individuals who focus primarily on security within AWS. I found that as a solutions architect, it is extremely important to have security at the forefront of my mind while building. Building an environment secure …

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Amazon EMR, ALB & Me. Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. To ensure traffic to EMR is secured using Transport Layer Security, an AWS Application …

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Use a password manager with multifactor authentication Find yourself overrun with passwords from various applications, websites and more? The answer is to move to utilizing a password manager, along with enabling multifactor authentication. I’ll briefly list a few of the password managers available, but will …

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AWS Community Builders In October 2020, I was accepted to be a member of the 2021 AWS Community Builders program. I’m honored (and very excited) to be apart of this new program! As you’ve seen thus far, I love to blog about AWS and newly released features and deployments. What is it? The AWS Community …

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