Category «aws»

AWS User Group Krakow

We invite you to the next meeting of the AWS User Group in Krakow. This time we will focus on the subject of building, managing and monitoring AWS infrastructure, and we will move into the Serverless world!Remember to fill in the form and check your email regularly, as the number of places is limited. The …

Automated Amazon EBS Snapshots

EBS snapshots is a powerful tool that can be used as a base for your backups. Snapshots are stored on S3 which provides 99.999999999% of durability. Wort to remember is that if an EC2 instance is up and running during snapshot creation, there may be applications working with data in memory or pending I/O operations …

Ansible and AWS cross-account access

To access AWS resources in another account you can create dedicated IAM user or use IAM roles. If you decide to create user, you need to generate username and password for AWS Console or access keys for API. Baking this keys in your code is almost always a bad idea. By setting up roles for …

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam – materials

Materials Solutions Architect Associate exam materials. Exam blueprint. A Cloud Guru course. Pluralsight course. Linux academy course – highly recommended. It contains a lot of useful labs! Jayendra’s Blog. AWS Well-Architected Framework. Whitepapers Building Fault-Tolerant Applications on AWS Using Amazon Web Services for Disaster Recovery Encrypting Data at Rest AWS Security Best Practices Cost Management in …

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam – materials

Materials First of all, read exam blueprint. Pluralsight course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. A cloud guru course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2018. Jayendra’s Blog. AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS official documentation – read at least core concepts/how it works sections from all major services. For example: core components for DynamoDB. FAQ for all major …

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Amazon Elastic File System provides scalable, persistent file storage for use with EC2. One of the main difference between EBS and EFS is that EFS can be used by multiple EC2 instances at the same time (1 to 1000 from different AZ). It is accessible to operating system by Network File System version 4 protocol …

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Continuing Amazon’s storage services overviews, it is time to take a closer look at Elastic Block Store (EBS). It is one of the options for EC2 instances for storage. As the name suggests, it provides block level storage volume and it is visible in OS as a raw, unformatted disk. EBS volumes are created in …