Integrating AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB

Posted on August 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(25)

In the current world of API, every mobile application and website have to communicate using dedicated API servers. These dedicated servers are explicitly set to handle the API calls for an application. API servers act as an intermediary between the application and the database.

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Migration of WordPress from BlueHost to AWS for FREE!!!

Posted on August 14, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

We know it is a painful and cumbersome exercise to move WordPress installation from BlueHost to AWS. We have been getting lot of consulting requests from lot of companies for migrating their WordPress installation from BlueHost to AWS.

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IAM Authorization Hierarchy

Posted on May 5, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the service that provides a authentication and authorization control for users and resources in ones AWS account. Although authentication has been quite simple and straightforward, viz. one can create groups, users and credentials for the users and share the same, authorization is quite a trick on IAM.

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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(1)

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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Sample Questions for AWS Professional Level Solutions Architect Certification Exam

Posted on April 24, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(7)

Here are some more Sample Questions for AWS Professional Level Certification Exam for Solutions Architect. Answers to these questions are given below with brief description. In case you require detailed answer or if you have any doubt please write it in the comments section below and I’ll try to answer it.

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Amazon expands Elastic Block Storage

Posted on March 24, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

As we know Elastic Block Store (EBS) is the block level storage that increases the durability and persistence of data for EC2 instances. It earlier provided storage size from 1GB up to 1TB.

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Preparing for Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Certification (AWS Architect Certification)

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(29)

AWS has launched a comprehensive AWS certification program. Lack of Certification from AWS was an issue in the AWS ecosystem, so the certification program is really exciting. I registered for the exam straight away and gave the exam today (05/08/2013).

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Shrinking An Amazon EBS Volume

Posted on January 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store Volumes are easy to use and expand but notoriously hard to shrink once their size has grown. Here are the steps for Shrinking any mounted EBS volume on EC2 Instances.

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Preparing for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Level Certification Exam

Posted on January 18, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

AWS recently announced their second Professional level certification exam that is little different from it’s previous professional level exam as the new one merges two certification tracks into one. Their Developer & SysOps Administrator exam at associate level converge into a single exam at professional level that is AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification exam.

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