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AWS Pi Week 2021 - Celebrating 15 years of Amazon S3!

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

AWS Security: a curated list of repositories

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.

Become an AWS Guru using this nifty AWS CLI cheat-sheet!

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 Security Group Rules as FromAddress and ToPort Add Rule to Security Group Delete Rule from Security Group Edit Rules of Security Group Delete Security Group S3 List Buckets List Files in a Bucket Create Bucket Delete Bucket Download S3 Object to Local Upload Local File as S3 Object Delete S3 Object Download Bucket to Local Upload Local Directory to Bucket Share S3 Object without Public Access API Gateway List of API Gateway IDs and Names List of API Gateway Keys List API Gateway Domain Names List of Resources for API Gateway Find Lambda for API Gateway Resource ELB List of ELB Hostnames List of ELB ARNs List of ELB Target Group ARNs Find Instances for a Target Group RDS List of DB Clusters List of DB Instances Take DB Instance Snapshot Take DB Cluster Snapshot ElastiCache List of ElastiCache Machine Type and Name List of ElastiCache Replication Groups List of ElastiCache Snapshots Create ElastiCache Snapshot Delete ElastiCache Snapshot Scale Up/Down ElastiCache Replica Lambda List of Lambda Functions, Runtime and Memory List of Lambda Layers List of Source Event for Lambda Download Lambda Code Cloudwatch List of CloudWatch Alarms and Status Create Alarm for EC2 High CPUUtilization Create Alarm for EC2 High StatusCheckFailed_Instance Route53 List Domains List Records for a Domain (Zone) SNS List of SNS Topics List of SNS Topic and related Subscriptions Publish to SNS Topic DynamoDB List of DynamoDB Tables Get All Items from a Table Get Item Count from a Table Get Item using Key Get Specific Fields from an Item Delete Item using Key SQS List Queues Create Queue Count Messages in Queue Send Message Receive Message Delete Message Purge Queue Delete Queue CloudFront List of CloudFront Distributions and Origins Create Cache Invalidation Check Cache Invalidation Status Amplify List of Amplify Apps and Source Repository Cognito List of User Pool IDs and Names List of Phone and Email of All Users IAM User List of UserId and UserName Get Single User Add User Delete User List Access Keys for User Delete Access Key for User Activate/Deactivate Access Key for User Generate New Access Key for User IAM Group List Groups Add/Delete Groups List of Policies and ARNs List of User/Group/Roles for a Policy List Policies for a Group Add Policy to a Group Add User to a Group Remove User from a Group List Users in a Group List Groups for a User Attach/Detach Policy to a Group Pro Tip! If you have multiple AWS Accounts, you can use bash alias like the following. So you no longer need to pass --profile to aws tool.

Expand your search using AWS native services to identify, comprehend and securely store documents.

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 document debacle!

AWS re:Invent 2020 Andy Jassy Keynote annoucements!

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!

AWS Certified Security: Specialty overview

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 initially reduces the risk of failing compliance and potential exploitation at production launch.

Amazon EMR, ALB & Me.

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 Load Balancer is required.

Use a password manager with multifactor authentication

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 walkthrough the combination of LastPass + Virtual MFA (Yubikey 5 NFC). The below guide will allow you to securely store your passwords and have a backup in-case you lose access to your mobile device which will be housing Google Authenticator.

AWS Community Builders

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.

Free course: Deploying HashiCorp Vault with AWS Secrets Engine

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.