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  • AWS KMS Key Rotation: Best Practice to Enchance Security

    AWS KMS Key Rotation: Best Practice to Enchance Security

    As a DevOps engineer, ensuring data security is one of my top priorities. AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is what I use in protecting sensitive data through encryption. We must know that encryption security is only as strong as its key management strategy. So, lets understand KMS key rotation which is a best practice that […]

  • Top 10 AWS re:Invent 2024 Announcements You Should Know

    Top 10 AWS re:Invent 2024 Announcements You Should Know

    AWS re:Invent 2024 held from December 2–6, in Las Vegas was packed with innovative and next level announcements that might shape the future of cloud computing. As a DevOps engineer from Nepal, I was excited to attend this prestigious event in Las Vegas. However, due to some unavoidable circumstances, I couldn’t make it this year. It was […]

  • How to Identify and Resolve Database Connectivity Issues

    How to Identify and Resolve Database Connectivity Issues

    Being a cloud engineer, i have to manage networking of construction based project management company and we rely heavily on AWS services. AWS provides robust cloud infrastructure but sometime networking issues can cause disruption in smooth operation of the application. Recently, i faced such issue, and here in this blog i am sharing my experience […]

  • How to setup AWS Lambda Target on Application Load Balancer (ALB)

    How to setup AWS Lambda Target on Application Load Balancer (ALB)

    First let’s try to briefly understand AWS Lambda, Target Groups, and Application Load Balancer with an easy comparative example. Let’s suppose we have one coffee stall. AWS Lambda is a coffee making machine that makes coffee only when it gets orders from someone, meaning it does not run all the time which saves cost and […]

  • Custom Telegram Notifications for EC2 CPU Utilization

    Custom Telegram Notifications for EC2 CPU Utilization

    I am DevOps Engineer working on US based construction management company’s application. After I proposed the cost and work benefits of using AWS services to the product owner, most of our workloads are AWS-based servers and RDS database instances. My team lead asked me I could setup a system to send custom alerts to telegram […]

  • Automatically Start and Stop Amazon EC2 Instances using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Maintenance Windows

    Automatically Start and Stop Amazon EC2 Instances using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Maintenance Windows

    In this blog, we are going to configure the following scenario: Two selected EC2 Instances should automatically start at 9am and stop at 6pm during office hours from Monday to Friday . The architecture diagram is shown as above. — First thing we are going to do is to launch two EC2 instances with name […]

  • Quick Connect Remote (EC2 instance) and Host (User PC) through SSH command in Linux

    Quick Connect Remote (EC2 instance) and Host (User PC) through SSH command in Linux

    How quickly can you connect your Remote Server from your host computer? In this blog, we are going to connect AWS EC2 instance from our personal laptop using the SSH and keygen command. This quick tip helps to instantly fire linux commands and start EC2 instance within seconds. Settings in remote server First ensure we […]

  • Using Amazon S3 and CloudFront to Host a Static Website

    Using Amazon S3 and CloudFront to Host a Static Website

    Amazon S3 and CloudFront offers easy on budget and easy to configure and setup a static website. If you simply wish to have a simple portfolio website or personal website that works like your online visiting card, content of which do not change so frequently, then this blog is for you. Initially we setup on […]

  • Automated CICD Jenkins Pipeline for Web Application on AWS with Docker

    Automated CICD Jenkins Pipeline for Web Application on AWS with Docker

    AI and automation are two trending topics these days and same things are going on with software development processes. To deliver quick and quality software, CICD pipelines workflows and integration of multiple service providers is necessary. So, lets learn today how to create declarative CICD Jenkins Pipeline for Web Application using the Ubuntu AMI on […]

  • From Amazon ECR to Amazon ECS: Understanding Container Deployment with AWS

    From Amazon ECR to Amazon ECS: Understanding Container Deployment with AWS

    Hello guys, today we are going to learn how to deploy container images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) to Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). It is very important to learn the concepts of containerization for DevOps Engineers and system administrators, but first let’s see start from the basic concepts. What is Amazon ECS? As […]

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