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AWS is a utility, you pay as you go. If you are new to AWS it can be easy to kick off services that run happily in the background costing you money. Although many services are free in the first 12 months of signing up with AWS (AWS free tier) there are also many chargeable …
If you have recently started using AWS one thing you you need to get a clear understanding of is what AWS is billing you. A lot of things are in the ‘free’ tier but you can still get a nasty cost shock if you’re not careful. One of the tools AWS offers to help manage …
A quick guide I put together for myself showing AWS Console parameters and how they map across to CloudFormation properties. This is useful if you’re moving away from using the AWS console and click-ops and starting to use CloudFormation. Table LegendTable text in bold – Recommended values to be set Table text strikethrough – Backward compatibility …
Amazon VPC and RDS console to CloudFormation Property Mapping Read More »
Having a stable development environment is all about consistency. I got sick of trying to remember my development environment configuration and what was installed so I wrote a shell script to automate the initial setup. My editor of choice is Visual Studio code, but like most devs I use quite a few underlying tools including …
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This is an updated version of my original post that can be found here. It reflects changes in the Amazon SES console and is current as of May 2022. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) – How to setup SMTP for your website Introduction This is an updated version of a guide to configure Amazon Simple …
Introduction Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is Amazons email service. This guide shows how to configure the AWS Simple Email Service (SES) for SMTP to allow email from your EC2 production website, for example via a “contact me” form. I assume you are using Amazon Route 53 for DNS services. Using Route 53 automates certain …
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When I first started with AWS, I created a quick and dirty script to create some AWS resources. I then discovered CloudFormation and never looked at the AWS CLI again apart from the odd command. Sometimes it’s nice to have a quick way to spin up some resources without using Cloudformation, so I revisited my …
I just discovered this recently, through a Reddit post of all places 🙂 AWS have published a website at https://awsvideocatalog.com that catalogs all Amazon videos in one place. AWS Video Catalog (AVC) is a great resource if you want to hunt down a video on a specific AWS topic.
AWS announced a Solutions Implementation for automated tagging the other week called Tag Tamer. You can find it here. This provides a pre-built web interface and utilises Lambda functions to pick up rule enforcement set by administrators from AWS Config. If resources do not have tags this will set them automatically. It’s a good idea …
Why should I run my WordPress site on AWS? There are many choices to make when planning your website infrastructure. You can go the easy route and outsource web hosting to a third-party and for some organisations this might be a sensible solution, especially if you are not technically aware. The disadvantage to this is …
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