Mounting an EBS Volume
As you learn AWS, you are kind of forced to pick up the linux command line along the way. Here, we are going to learn…
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Monitoring EC2 Memory with CloudWatch
An important AWS exam topic is to know what Cloudwatch can monitor by default. If you go to the cloudwatch metrics, you can see some…
Getting Ready for the Exam
I registered for the Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam August 12th, 2018. This is the official final day you can take the older version of…
Flow Logs Basics
AWS is jam packed with tons of information to learn and use. One of these things are Flow Logs. A Flow log is an option…
Building Secure Web Servers on AWS
When talking AWS, you will often hear buzzwords like, “highly-available, highly secure, fault tolerant architecture.” Buzz words are in reality important concepts, but most people…
EC2 Instance Metadata
Metadata is an important concept in the IT world. In short, it simply is data about your data. For EC2, metadata is the information about…
Self Destruct an EC2
You can do interesting things with the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface). One of those things is to cause an EC2 instance to self destruct. …
Amazon EBS vs. Ephemeral Storage
EC2 Instances primarily utilize storage known as EBS Volumes. But this isn’t the only type of storage that is available. There’s another type, known as…
Upgrading Your EBS Volumes – A Primer
I’m currently going through a course on Amazon Web Services, taught by ACloud.Guru. His course focuses on preparing students to pass all of the AWS…
Amazon EBS Volumes 101
I remember back to my 1980 Macintosh Plus. I always looked forward to getting new floppy disks from my Uncle. One day though, he sent…
