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AWS OpsWorks Best Practices

We, the DevOps team at TO THE NEW have been practicing the DevOps Methodology from the last few years. We call ourselves DevOps architects, who love to do automation irrespective of the scripting language or cloud platform. As a DevOps architect, I have been using OpsWork from quite a long time. Hence, today I thought of sharing […]

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Using AWS Lambda Function for AutoScaling of ECS Containers

AWS Lambda is an event-driven compute service using which you can perform actions by executing some set of code on any event. We are using a lambda function to trigger AWS ECS container auto-scaling that is executed on the SNS event. Below is the AWS Lambda code in node.js that will get Cluster Name, Service […]

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Access and Modify Google Sheet using Python

  This would be my first blog where I am using Python. I am excited to share what I did using Python. I wanted to update google sheet using bash shell scripting but did not found anything I can play around using bash. Later, I opted for Python as it provides “gspread” library which could […]

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6 Tips for AWS Cost Optimization

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 […]

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Mystery Behind S3 Costing

AWS S3 is a Simple Storage Service provided by Amazon that can store any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It is one of the most heavily used AWS Service. It is not just used as a storage service, it is also used for hosting websites with static content. It […]

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AWS Autoscaling group configured with ELB and Alarms in Boto (Python)

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 have to […]

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AWS Security Re-Check

Security is of prime importance for any cloud vendor including AWS. AWS follows a Shared Responsibility Model for security. As the name Shared Responsibility Model suggests, security on AWS is not the sole responsibility of either AWS or the customer. It is a combined effort from both parties. The responsibility of AWS includes providing a […]

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Utilizing AWS Ruby SDK to get AWS EC2 details in a CSV file

Over the years, Amazon has been integrating its web services with various programming languages to make it easier for developers to utilize various AWS resources effectively. It has made specific tools for popular programming languages like Ruby, Python, Java, .NET etc. Talking about Ruby, it is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It was designed […]

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The A to Z of Public Cloud Security Tools

You may wonder why an arrangement of servers, constructed of hard metal, which tend to run hot and weigh thousands of pounds, be called a “cloud”? This can be propped up only by an engineering diagram, in which data travels by an undefined pathway from beginning to end. So, the cloud refers to the randomized […]

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