A Step-by-Step Guide: Centralized Multi-Account OS Patching using AWS Systems Manager

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Deepak Surendran | Comments(0)

Operating System Patching has always been a management overhead. AWS Systems Manager is considered a better option for patching different types of machines. The OS patching process can be automated. This blog illustrates in a step-by-step manner that how to use AWS Systems Manager Automation to patch managed instances across multiple AWS accounts and Regions. We are using the capability of Resource Groups, and IAM assumes the Role to patch the machine from a Central Account.

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How can Cloud Computing help farmers increase production and save water and energy?

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Vasanth Kumar R | Comments(0)

Growing technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision, and Cloud Computing can help farmers with things like farm monitoring and control, weather prediction, disease, and pest management, and livestock tracking. Farm Monitoring by IoT, AI/ML Based irrigation, AI/ML/Computer-vision Based disease prediction and crop health analysis, and AWS IOT’S cycle of services can be used and inducted to achieve farming goals.

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Fabric – Automate Administrative Tasks with Ease

Posted on August 8, 2017 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Things become very lengthy when we choose any configuration management tool for managing multiple servers. Just imagine, what if we get something which allows us to start automating tasks just after installation? While hunting for a way to automate all administrative tasks and for deployments with less efforts and time.

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The revolution chip – ESP8266

Posted on April 14, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

It looks like one has work dedicatedly with Arduino and decided to sit down on a Sunday afternoon to write his wish list to tooth fairy with everything he wanted to see in the next generation Micro Controller Unit, but instead of sending that wish list to Fairyland, it was sent to China, where the brilliant minds of Espressif materialized ESP2866, which come at a ridiculous price point of $3 – $6.

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Schedule and Configure Lambda to Notify you..

Posted on April 8, 2016 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

In the era of Dev-ops, continuous integration and deployment, AWS Lambda provides you with various features, that will help you automate your needs. Lambda is a compute service from Amazon Web Services, which performs actions on various available services of AWS, based on the program code that you upload for execution. It can be triggered by events or with a scheduled event provided by CloudWatch.

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AWS Lambda – the future of event driven automation

Posted on November 5, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Lambda is a compute service in Amazon Web Services, which triggers actions based on the events. Lambda is efficient and event driven which responses to events from either objects added or removed from S3, updating to DynamoDB tables, SNS, data in Kinesis Stream, Cloudwatch logs, In-App activity etc.

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Ansible for DevOps

Posted on April 29, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

Now is the Era of Cloud where you can dynamically provision IT infrastructure more quickly than you ever thought before. Various cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Compute Engine and many others have made this possible in recent years.

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Infrastructure Automation and Chef(Part-1)

Posted on April 29, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

Infrastructure automation has become an indispensable part of IT industry today. But what exactly is infrastructure automation and why does it matter?

Back in the good old days expanding an existing infrastructure was a time consuming task, it would take weeks or in some cases months to procure the required hardware and additional weeks to configure it as per the need.

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