Amazon Web Services makes it simple and convenient to provision computer servers in the cloud. However, this ease can quickly lead to expensive monthly bills. AWS Savings Plans offer a discount in exchange for a fixed-term commitment to spend. In this article, I explain that today is the day to purchase a savings plan.
May 2023
As someone who builds and maintains cloud infrastructure, I have always been leery from a security perspective of giving 3rd party services, such as CI/CD platforms, access to the resources. All the service vendors claim to take stringent precautions and implement foolproof processes, but still, vulnerabilities getexploited and errors happen. Therefore, my preference is to use tools […]
Apr 2023
One benefit of public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that it allows startups and established companies to quickly set up and start using resources. There are also a wide range of server types for many of those resources that require computing power, such as virtual servers, managed databases or caching. Some […]
Feb 2021
When people think of DevOps, they likely think of delivery of code into production. Microsoft, Amazon and DevOps.com all mention delivery in the first paragraph of their definitions of DevOps. However, code has to be developed and tested before it can be shipped. That requires an environment where developers can integrate their code, an environment where QA teams can perform […]
Jan 2021
If you want to increase the disk space of an EC2 volume, this AWS page mentions a command called growpart. However, if you have an old (circa 2015) EC2 instance that was initially a Ubuntu 16.04 release, the command may not be available. The command is part of a package called cloud-utils. So: sudo apt […]
Jul 2020
Recently I was playing around with setting up an AWS Transit Gateway. The objective was to route traffic from multiple VPCs through a single NAT gateway to the company network. The solution had to work if the origin VPCs were in different AWS accounts. Part I: NAT Gateway I took it in stages. I first […]