Do you yearn for auto-completion and manual pages (automatically) within the AWS CLI tool? Look no more, as aws-shell is here to save (or shell?) the day. Here’s an example of using aws-shell: The aws-shell requires python and pip to install. You can install the aws-shell using pip: $ pip install aws-shell If …

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AWS Elastic File System is a great tool for using shared storage in auto scaling group situations. There are two throughput modes to choose from for your file system, Bursting Throughput and Provisioned Throughput. With Bursting Throughput mode, throughput on Amazon EFS scales as the size of your file system in the …

Need a way to automatically back up your AWS Route53 public DNS zones? Look no further, as a combination of the following AWS products can fit the need: Lambda Route53 CloudWatch S3 This will execute a Lambda function every 6 hours (or whichever you set the CloudWatch event to). It will use the IAM role to export …

The snowball effect for organizations & startups using AWS is a real thing. You may start experimenting with using one of the cloud platforms (AWS in this article) and soon to find out you have quite the labyrinth of policies, groups, users, access keys and more. This handy tool developed by the security company …

Goal Create an end-to-end fully encrypted, publicly accessible secret storage tool Components AWS Code Commit (Ruby v2.7) - a fork of OneTimeSecret with additional features, more developed UX & mobile capabilities. AWS Elastic Beanstalk (which includes EC2 instances deployed with boot-strap configurations defined …