AWS Certified Security: Specialty Overview The AWS Certified Security: Speciality 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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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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Deploying HashiCorp Vault with AWS Secrets Engine I am providing my course, Deploying HashiCorp Vault with AWS Secrets Engine for no charge - available on YouTube. I’ll keep this page updated with additional material and update the videos on YouTube as needed. Introduction In this lecture, we will cover the …

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aws-servicebroker-tf I was unable to find a Terraform version of the CloudFormation stack that deploys the prerequisites for AWS-ServiceBroker. I’ve since created this in Terraform, along with improving upon some of the initial concepts adapted in the CloudFormation template. GitHub Repository …

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aws-auto-cleanup Functional Requirements Reduce operational run-time of resources used within an AWS account for testing\development Reduce cost due to deployed resources Ability to whitelist AWS resources that need to be retained Operating Cost < $2.00/mo for the following: AWS::Events::Rule …

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HashiCorp Terraform AWS-Provider Issue #13952 was highly sought after for a recent implementation of EMR v5.30.0. The requirements included the need for the utilization of AWS Auto Scaling for EMR. We sought out the AWS EMR Managed Scaling feature, but were sad to see that support for that attribute was not in the AWS …

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aws-vault Terraform deployment of HashiCorp Vault. This is a work in progress write-up and will change. Requirements Terraform v0.12.26 SSH KeyPair creation (public key stored in compute\ec2\keypair.tf) AWS Profile with ample IAM permissions, with access key and secret access key stored in ~.aws\credentials and …

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Retrospective: blog deployment model Goal Deploy a personal blog (in this case, troydieter.com) using the below requirements. I’ve used other deployment models, such as CI/CD pipelines – namely Jenkins to deploy static sites. Previous to the below approach, Ghost blog was used in conjunction with Nginx. …

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AWS Certified Big Data: Specialty study outline In another installment of study blueprints for AWS certification exams; I am happy to provide my suggested outline for what I used to pass the AWS Certified Big Data Specialty certification in December 2019. Deep-dive re:Invent videos: AWS re:Invent 2018: Big Data …

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