AWS, DevOps

Python Borrowing Resources using Fabric

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...

by Aman Jain
Tag: aws cli
18-Jul-2016

AWS, DevOps

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 AWS we can lower the IT costs, compute...

by Aman Jain
Tag: aws cli
30-Jun-2016

AWS, DevOps

Unifying control of multiple AWS accounts by using AWS STS

Recently, we came across a scenario where we need to create AMIs of multiple production servers running in four different AWS accounts. One solution was to create an automation script to be run on an AWS EC2 instance running in each aws account which would create AMI of all production servers running in each account. This would have...

by Navjot Singh
Tag: aws cli
09-Oct-2015

AWS, Technology

Managing AWS resources using Puppet

This post showcases the latest functionality added to puppet resource library to manage AWS resources. Various AWS resources like EC2 instances, route53, RDS and ELB etc. can be managed, described and created using this module. This will also help to keep track of launching an instance in a new security group or an existing one and...

by Sharad Aggarwal
Tag: aws cli
29-Jun-2015

AWS

Creating AMIs based on Tags

You must be wondering how to make AMI of the Web Server(EC2 instance) in which you have made some changes. In this blog I will walk you through a script that will ease up your work and make AMI of instances with user specified tags. Consider a use-case where user has made some changes to the Web Server and he wants to take AMI...

by Aakash Garg
Tag: aws cli
26-Mar-2015

AWS

Using multiple IAM Accounts through AWS CLI tool

AWS CLI tool allows you to switch between multiple IAM accounts. This becomes very handy while you are writing a script that involves multiple IAM user accounts. Prerequisites : AWS CLI tool Configuring Multiple Accounts: When you configure your AWS CLI tool, a configuration file gets created at ~/.aws/config in Linux/Unix or...

by ravi
Tag: aws cli
27-Feb-2014