In my previous blog post, I wrote about Cost Optimizations for the various AWS resources. The script consisted of six methods and the overall time required for the script to execute was roughly about 15-20 mins. While the script is running, it used to slow down my system. Also, there was a time consumption due to many reasons like...
As we know AWS provides a good edge in terms of cost over the on-premises data center or in a co-location environment with its On Demand and Reserved pricing. As it is rightly said "Reducing the overall cost is a high priority" and it is true for any organization whether big or small. By using AWS we can lower the IT costs, compute...
Autoscaling is a service in AWS, which is used to launch or terminate an instance based on user-defined policies, health checks, and schedules. There are several ways to configure an auto-scaling group in AWS, here we are focusing on implementing it in python using AWS python module boto. Before Creating an Autoscaling Group ...
We come across a lot of instances of Cloud based applications being hit by DDoS attacks. We must accept the fact that most of us are unaware of risks and protection methods available for DDoS protection in the cloud. This blog post emphasizes on understanding DDos attack and providing an approach to prevent unauthorized access and usage...
Suppose, you have multiple servers running a simple web application on apache or Nginx and you want to put all the error/access logs on a centralized place so that you can troubleshoot your system in case of any error after getting alert notification configured on your logs . Here is an amazing feature of Amazon Web Services...
In my last blog, I shared how to setup custom Cloud Watch metrics for memory and disk usage. In this blog, I'll discuss how to monitor Apache Worker connections in Cloud Watch. Few days back We got a requirement to monitor Apache Worker connections. For that We decided to use Cloud Watch to monitor the "Busy Workers" and "Idle Workers"...