Integrating AWS Lambda with Slack
January 1, 2016 CloudThat | Comments(7)In this blog, we are going to integrate Lambda with slack to receive important notification in the slack channel. We will accomplish the following task.
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In this blog, we are going to integrate Lambda with slack to receive important notification in the slack channel. We will accomplish the following task.
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Introducing Run Command in EC2
December 9, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(5)In order to perform updates, patches, restart a particular process or running a particular powershell script in a Windows based EC2 instance we need to login to the machine and then make the required changes. Sometimes in a huge production environment this tends to be a cumbersome job for managing large fleet of machines.
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Recover EC2 Windows Password
November 5, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(1)There are scenarios where we lose/forget our windows password and then trying out a way to login to the windows server. This turns out to be critical if it’s an admin credential that is lost. But still there’s a way to reset the password.
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AWS Lambda – the future of event driven automation
November 5, 2015 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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Deep dive into the AWS API Gateway
October 21, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(4)From my previous blog, you can get a hands on with the AWS API Gateway. Now we will deep dive into it. Following points will be covered.
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AWS IoT: A Service for Internet of Things
October 12, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(0)The AWS re:Invent keynote session by Dr. Werner Vogels (CTO, Amazon.com) on day 2 unleashed a new set of possibilities to the world of Information Technology. Imagine Virtualization clubbed with Internet of Things (IoT) and then brought in front of you as a service. And this is now a reality since AWS has launched a new service called AWS IoT, which is currently available in beta version.
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Amazon Inspector- Application Security Service in AWS Cloud
October 8, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(0)The AWS re:Invent keynote session by Andy Jassy (Senior VP, AWS) on Day 1 comprised of announcements about the new services and enhancements in some of the existing ones. In this blog, I am going to talk about one of the new services- Amazon Inspector.
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AWS Identity & Access Management – Best Practices
September 9, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(1)Security is a critical aspect for any organization. This blog focuses on the account security measure provided by AWS – IAM. IAM stands for Identity and Access Management and is used for controlling access to AWS services and resources. There are no additional charges for using IAM.
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Cassandra Multi-AZ Data Replication
August 19, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(7)Apache Cassandra is an open source non-relational/NOSQL database. It is massively scalable and is designed to handle large amounts of data across multiple servers (Here, we shall use Amazon EC2 instances), providing high availability. In this blog, we shall replicate data across nodes running in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) to ensure reliability and fault tolerance
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Implementation of Custom Cloudwatch Metric in Amazon Web Services
August 19, 2015 CloudThat | Comments(4)Metrics are used to monitor various resources in Amazon Web Services like EBS volumes, EC2 instances and RDS instances. Apart from the pre-defined metrics in AWS, sometimes monitoring is required for additional service parameters. For creating a user defined metric, AWS has introduced custom metrics in CloudWatch.
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