AWS

Setup custom CloudWatch metrics on EC2 instance

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...

by abhishek.tomar
Tag: aws
17-Jan-2014

AWS

IAM Role based access to S3 bucket.

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...

by Hitesh Bhatia
Tag: aws
29-Dec-2013

AWS, DevOps

Installing Oracle 11g on Cloud (EC2 instance RHEL/Centos 6.x) through command line

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...

by ankush
Tag: aws
23-Dec-2013

AWS

Beginner’s guide to AWS auto-scaling

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...

by abhishek.tomar
Tag: aws
17-Dec-2013

Technology

First Hand Experience of Day 1 at AWS Re:Invent’13 – by IntelliGrape

It was an amazing day for IntelliGrape at AWS Re:Invent: the largest gathering of developers and technical leaders from the AWS community. Attendees from across the globe are present here to take advantage of 175+ sessions, training bootcamps, hands-on labs, and Hackathon to gain deeper skills and knowledge of the AWS Cloud. ...

by Bansi
Tag: aws
13-Nov-2013

AWS

10 MUST ATTEND sessions at AWS ReInvent’13

AWS Re: Invent’13, November 12-15, 2013 - Las Vegas is going to be the cloud event of the year. With a total of 202 sessions across 13 tracks in 4 days; 361 speakers, 174 from AWS team and 186 from customer base which is 34% more than total sessions in 2012. With session list announced a month ago and exclusive session builder already...

by Bansi
Tag: aws
06-Nov-2013

AWS

Evening Session on AWS CloudFront & Auto Scaling by Amazon and IntelliGrape Software

IntelliGrape Software (Now TO THE NEW Digital) in association with AWS presented an Evening Session on AWS CloudFront & Auto Scaling at Hyatt Regency, Delhi on 27th September. The event saw engagement from CEOs, CTOs and CIOs of e-commerce companies, start-ups and enterprises with a purpose to understand CloudFront and Auto Scaling...

by Bansi
Tag: aws
30-Sep-2013

AWS

IAM Basic (Amazon Web Services)

IAM stands for Identity access management, and it's used to control access to AWS resources, in other words it defines "who can do what". If you have been using AWS for long and are not aware of IAM, here's how it can help you. Let’s consider a scenario where an organization has one AWS for all their needs and multiple users use that...

by Hitesh Bhatia
Tag: aws
05-Aug-2013

Technology

Changing Location of MySql DataStore

On one of our projects, we had to store the MySql Data at a location different from the default location. This was needed because the server was on an instance-store Amazon instance which meant that the data would get lost if the instance had to be rebooted for some reason. After going through the tutorials and articles on AWS, we came...

by Vivek Krishna
Tag: aws
07-Jun-2010