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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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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-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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WSL - Windows Subsystem for Linux Overview Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. Also …
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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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With scheduling my AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional for late September 2019, I figured i’d finally compile all of the notes and gathered content for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate. As a reference, here is the certification learning path for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: …
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As a follow up to my previous post regarding AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate study guide, I figured I’d provide an update. Here are my key-takeaways for those interested in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional course: It was long, like very long. It’s definitely an exercise in …
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