In the recent re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas, Amazon announced about its fifth database: Amazon Aurora. Aurora becomes the latest addition to the list of databases available on Amazon RDS after MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. It is a fully managed database which consist of speed and reliability which...
AWS Config, a web service being introduced this AWS re:invent. This web service is currently available for North Virginia Region. AWS Config enables Customer to get a complete view of configuration of AWS resources (EC2 Instance, Elastic IP, Security Groups , VPC , Internet Gateway etc) associated with your AWS account and also enables to...
AWS has unveiled several new services and tools to the existing AWS services at its re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas. In this blog, let's take a closer look at AWS CodeDeploy, a brand new service aimed for code management and deployment and walk through the process of setting up and deploying an application. AWS...
Adaptive Bitrate streaming is a technique employed in video streaming which detects end user's bandwidth and calibrates the video bitrate accordingly to guarantee the best viewing experience. This works by encoding source into streams of different bitrates and then each stream is fragmented into smaller multi-second chunks. A manifest...
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...
EBS (Elastic Blog Storage) is a virtual Hard drive which one can attach to an EC2 Instance. By default Amazon provides standard EBS with 100 IOPS (Input Output operation per second) which is equivalent to our normal hard-drive (7200 RPM), used at our homes. That works fine in a lot of cases but sometimes if we have a server with high I/O...
Most of us know how to host a static website on Amazon S3, but to deploy the website you would need to run the AWS Cli command everytime manually. In this blog I'll show you how to automatically deploy your website while maintaining version control of your project using server side hook provided by Git. Prerequisite : Git Aws...
Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) allows its customer to maintain full control over who has access to their data with the help of its Identity Access Management (IAM) service and S3 bucket policies. For example, using Bucket Permission, one can give only reading access to one user, whereas using same permission/policy options, he...
AWS provides its user the Cloud Monitoring service which is used to keep a check on the resources being used. It can be a great tool for developers and system administrators for cases like: Monitoring data/graphs Setting up alarms Identify trends Take actions based on the state of cloud environment But AWS does not provide...
In one of our projects, we came across a requirement where we were required to fetch a file containing important data from S3 in order to use it. Due to Security concerns we were not keen on storing access keys on the EC2 instance. Which basically meant that we could not configure S3 on that very system as configuring S3 would create a...
You may find many blogs on internet providing step-by-step guidelines to install Oracle 11g on RHEL/Centos 6.x but what's different here is, I would be discussing the installation of Oracle 11g on AWS EC2 instance through CLI in cases where you do not have access to physical system. I believe the best example to showcase this environment...
Recently, we’re about to launch a new app but we did not have any idea about the traffic we’ll get. It could have been in hundreds or even thousands. So, we decided to go for Amazon’s Auto Scaling feature. Auto Scaling is the appropriate solution for your app when you are not certain about your app’s traffic or in cases where the...