AWS Tutorials

Aurora is a fully managed relational database engine that’s compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. It can deliver up to five times the throughput of MySQL and up to three times the throughput of PostgreSQL without requiring changes to most of your existing applications. When connecting to Aurora…

This service has been a blessing for me in terms of hiding credentials from being exposed to hackers. This is what Secrets Manager does from the official site. “AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to…

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for engineers.. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. CloudWatch collects monitoring…

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple…

AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change, based on…

AWS CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its…

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS. You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk…

SNS is a publisher/subscriber messaging service. SNS makes easier for you to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. It pushes notifications to Apple, Google, Fire OS, and Windows devices. Besides pushing notifications to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver messages to SMS text…

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cloud-based email sending service designed to help digital marketers and application developers send marketing, notification, and transactional emails. It is a reliable, cost-effective service for businesses of all sizes that use email to keep in…

SQS is a messaging system similar to ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ. It is a temporary repository for messages that need to be processed but the server is busy processing other messages. SQS is fully managed by AWS. You don’t have to manage middleware or servers. Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive…

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) makes it easy for you to create and manage keys and control the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications. AWS KMS is a secure and resilient service that uses hardware security modules that have been validated under FIPS 140-2,…

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic…

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume – there is no charge when your code is not running. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service – all with zero administration. Just upload…

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment. CloudFront is integrated with AWS – both physical locations that…

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as…

Amazon Elasticache is an in-memory data store. It also works as a cache data store to support the most demanding applications requiring sub-millisecond response times. You no longer need to perform management tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, monitoring,…

Dynamodb is a low latency NoSQL database like MongoDB or Cassandra. It is fully managed by AWS so you don’t have to maintain any server for your database. Literally, there are no servers to provision, patch, or manage and no software to install, maintain or operate. DynamoDB automatically scales…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. AWS RDS takes over many of the difficult or tedious management tasks of a relational database. When you use Amazon RDS, you can choose to use…

How to set up AWS CLI on your computer Download and install aws cli Set up your aws profile. Run this command to create the default profile aws configure If you have multiple aws accounts then you will need to specify a profile. aws configure [–profile profile-name] For example: aws configure…

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP…

ELB automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. A load balancer serves as the single point of contact for clients. The load balancer distributes incoming application traffic across…

EC2 is an AWS web service that provides scalable and resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware upfront, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need,…

IAM stands for Identity and Access Management, is Amazon web service that manages your users and their access to your AWS resources. You use IAM to control who is authenticated and authorized to use AWS resources such as EC2 servers, SQS queues, or Route53. It is so important for you to know what…

First you need to set up a role to execute Lambda functions and ec2 instance functions. Second you need to get your ec2 instance ids. Python 2.7 Java 8

First you need to set up a role to execute lambda functions and also ec2 instance functions. Second you need to get your ec2 instance ids. Python 2.7 Java 8 Bring down ecs instances for off hours #!/usr/bin/env python “”” A Lambda Function to set the desired count of running tasks in a service […]

ECS with AWS CLI Get list of clusters within ECS aws ecs list-clusters –profile {profile-name} // output { “clusterArns”: [ “arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789:cluster/server-api”, “arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789:cluster/server-web” ] } Get list of services within a cluster aws ecs list-services…