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List of Notable AWS Region Disasters

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AWS has experienced several significant outages or disruptions over the years, often affecting specific regions or Availability Zones (AZs). Below are some key examples of AWS region-related incidents, focusing on their scope and impact. Note that AWS does not always publish detailed post-event summaries for every incident, and comprehensive disaster records may not cover every … [Read more...] about List of Notable AWS Region Disasters

Top 10 Actions to Prevent Cyber Defence Evasion on AWS Cloud

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  Cyber defence evasion refers to a set of tactics and techniques that attackers use to avoid detection and bypass security measures in order to maintain access to a target network or system. The goal of evasion is to prevent security tools such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), antivirus software, and security information and event management (SIEM) … [Read more...] about Top 10 Actions to Prevent Cyber Defence Evasion on AWS Cloud

Top 10 Reasons Why AWS ECS is Better than Kubernetes

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Both Kubernetes and ECS are now capable of handling complex containerized workloads, and there are times when you might consider comparing them based on specific use cases and organizational needs.Here are some reasons why one might prefer AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) over Kubernetes: Integration with AWS Ecosystem: ECS is deeply integrated with other AWS services … [Read more...] about Top 10 Reasons Why AWS ECS is Better than Kubernetes

How to Enable Backend Access to AWS Fargate Container Using ECS EXEC

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Unlike AWS ECS  EC2 launch type, Fargate does not allow backend access. To enable backend access, you have to update your task definition and the task role. This post will help you enable docker container access of a fargate task. The only requirement before enabling ecs exec on fargate is that the platform version need to be 1.4. … [Read more...] about How to Enable Backend Access to AWS Fargate Container Using ECS EXEC

How to Setup a Maintenace Page Message in AWS ALB

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AWS application load balaner supports setting up a custom response for specific domain. If you need a easier method to serve a maintnace message from ALB you need to inject  a new rule with fixed response. The fixed response can be a 5xx status code wtih custom html. To add a custom rule using AWS CLI, you need to have AWS CLI installed with the right permission and need  to … [Read more...] about How to Setup a Maintenace Page Message in AWS ALB

How to Install AWS CLI and Terraform in Jenkins Docker Container

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To install a AWS CLI in a Jenkins running on a docker container, you can follow the below steps. But it would be better if you create  a custom  Jenkins docker file with AWS CLI and then create a custom image to spin up the Jenkins container. But sometimes, you may need to install various packages.   Install AWS CLI in Jenkins Docker Container Take a note of the … [Read more...] about How to Install AWS CLI and Terraform in Jenkins Docker Container

How to Resolve Route 53 Privated Hosted zone from a VPC in a different AWS account

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When you have mulitiple AWS accounts and a specific privated DNS  name that you want to resolve from a VPC in a different account you need to allow the hosted zone  to be resolved from a differnet acccount. For example, you have a hosted zone in account A  with several types of records and you want a DNS query for that zone get resovled from a specific VPC in account B. To … [Read more...] about How to Resolve Route 53 Privated Hosted zone from a VPC in a different AWS account

3 Easy Steps to Create EKS(kubernetes) Cluster in AWS

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One of the most easy to use tool for the beginners is that eskctl that help to quickly deploy Kubernetes cluster in AWS. We will share with you easy 3 steps creating a AWS managed EKS cluster with one EC2 worker node. To access the cluster we will install a dashboard using kube proxy that will allow you to access the dashboard from your local machine. install eskctl tool … [Read more...] about 3 Easy Steps to Create EKS(kubernetes) Cluster in AWS

How to Permanently Auto-Mount EFF Volume to EC2 instance using User-Data

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Amazon elastic file system( EFS) can be mounted automatically using user-data while spinning up the Instance. This post aims to show both auto and manual mount of EFS volume. Before you start mounting the EFS volume, make sure that you have the EFS ID with you and the EFS security group is open on port 2049 for the EC2 IP or subnets. … [Read more...] about How to Permanently Auto-Mount EFF Volume to EC2 instance using User-Data

3 Easy Steps to Create and Deploy AWS SAM Template

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AWS SAM template is an abstraction layer, runs on the top of CloudFormation,  for creating serverless resources. So, when you run a SAM template to create a Lambda function or an  API gateway, it generates a CloudFormation stack behind the scene. The main purpose is ease-of-management of serverless resources in AWS.  SAM Vs. CloudFormation: when to use AWS  SAM instead of … [Read more...] about 3 Easy Steps to Create and Deploy AWS SAM Template