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 EC2 monitoring
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 EC2 monitoring
30-Jun-2016

AWS, Grails

Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Using Datadog

Infrastructure monitoring in the cloud is the topmost priority for any application running in the cloud. This includes monitoring the web servers, databases, applications & various tools being used. Datadog not only provides monitoring but also has alerts integrated so that you get notified for certain type of issues which occur. For...

by Ranvijay Jamwal
Tag: aws EC2 monitoring
29-Jun-2015

AWS

Continuing with Boto: Find security group having port 22 open for all

Consider a use case where in any team members have opened port 22 for 0.0.0.0/0 inside an EC2 security group and forgot, which is a big security concern for the Instances. So I have written a script using python boto library which scans all the security groups of running / stopped instances and sends an email to all stakeholders on...

by Vikash Jha
Tag: aws EC2 monitoring
05-May-2015

AWS

Logs Monitoring Using AWS CloudWatch

 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...

by Tarun Saxena
Tag: aws EC2 monitoring
20-Mar-2015