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…
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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…
Email Hosting in AWS
In learning Amazon Web Services, I’m trying to do everything I can on the AWS platform. It gives me a chance learn more about AWS,…
EC2 Instance Types
The core service offered by AWS is the EC2 service, known as the “Elastic Compute Cloud”. EC2 is simply “VM”s” or “Virtual Servers” in the…
AWS Free-Tier
One of the biggest perks about Amazon Web Services is their Free Tier offerings. Basically, you can run your IT infrastructure completely in AWS free…
