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How VPC Components Work Together (Subnet, IGW, NAT, Route Tables)

In AWS networking, it is common to configure all required components—subnets, gateways, and route tables—yet still encounter connectivity issues. In most cases, the problem is not with individual components, but with a lack of understanding of how these components interact with each other. This article explains how key VPC components—subnets, route tables, Internet Gateway, and […]

DevOps

Designing for efficiency: How thoughtful VPC architecture reduces AWS spend

Introduction At To The New, we work with all kinds of customers from fast-moving startups to huge enterprises, and one thing is always true: Nobody likes surprises on their AWS bill, nor Anyone likes downtime. When people think of saving money in AWS, they usually jump straight to EC2 instance rightsizing or removing idle resources. […]

AWSDevOpsTechnology

Database Migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

AWS DMS is a web service that is used to migrate the databases to and from an Amazon RDS DB instance, or a database on an Amazon EC2 instance, or on-premises. We can migrate data between homogenous or heterogeneous database engines. One of the two endpoints must always be in AWS. The source and target […]

AWSDevOpsTechnology

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 […]

AWSDevOps

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 […]

AWSDevOps

AWS Security Re-Check

Security is of prime importance for any cloud vendor including AWS. AWS follows a Shared Responsibility Model for security. As the name Shared Responsibility Model suggests, security on AWS is not the sole responsibility of either AWS or the customer. It is a combined effort from both parties. The responsibility of AWS includes providing a […]

AWS

SSH tunneling with AWS private subnet

It has been a long time while I was working over the project where we required accessing Rabbit MQ dashboard. I know accessing the Rabbit MQ is not the difficult task but my scenario was bit complex. Scenario: I was supposed to access Rabbit MQ dashboard from AWS Linux machine which is placed in the […]

AWS

Migrate Elastic IP Address from EC2-Classic to EC2-VPC

In my recent use case , I thought of migrating EC2 classic elastic IP from EC2 classic to EC2-VPC. So now Amazon does provide this feature to migrate Ip form EC2 classic to EC2 VPC but not sure when it was released. As of know it can be only done using EC2 Query API or […]

AWS

VPC Peering In AWS Cloud

So what is AWS VPC Peering ? A VPC peering connection is basically a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IP addresses. Basics of VPC Peering So what does it take to make a VPC peering connection ? Firstly the owner of the requester VPC sends a […]