Continuing with my previous blog on Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring with Datadog, we would now be monitoring the application level with Datadog. My use-case was that I needed to monitor my PHP application, get deeper insights for it and also monitor the various Nginx metrics. So, I decided to try out Datadog Monitoring tool. In this […]
Recently in my project, we needed to store documents on some cloud based storage. So we choose Amazon S3 as it is secure and has proper backup mechanism and enough data centres so that we have minimum latency to access the server. Amazon has provided a great API available in different languages and we can […]
Amazon Web Services has introduced Step Autoscaling Policies for the autoscaling of EC2 instances. These policies are much different from the Simple Autoscaling Policies which are being used till the date. The cooldown periods are not supported in the Step Scaling Policies. It let you define lower bound , upper bound for metric values and […]
Now a days AWS S3 is commonly used as data storage. So there is one common requirement to delete a file or directory from S3. There are plenty of options avaibale to do the same, so we using javascript implementation for this. There are basic two steps by which you can delete a file from […]
We have already read about Amazon Aurora service in my previous post . Today we are going to migrate our existing RDS instance to Aurora Cluster. . The things you must know before migration:- 1. Aurora can be placed only in three regions (us-east-1, us-west-2 and eu-west-1). So if you are planning to migrate other […]
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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 […]
AWS announced its new database service for customers called “Amazon Aurora” which I have been waiting for since a long time. It delivers up to 5X performance of MySQL with high availability in 3 different regions. As it is new to all of us, so today we will be having hands on experience on AURORA […]
Recently on my project, someone did brute force attack over the login page of WordPress with multiple IPs. In the first response, we have blocked those IP on Nginx conf and later we realized, it would be better if we do it through IPtables. However, this was not enough as we need the manual intervention on the daily […]
The purpose of this blog post is to configure NAT (network address translation) instance on AWS by setting up customized Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) . AWS EC2 Instances that we have launched into a private sub-nets in a VPC can’t communicate with the Internet. So we use NAT instance launched in our public sub-net in our VPC to […]
