Tag: AWS
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Building Microservices with Docker and Pushing Images to Amazon ECR: A Step-by-Step Guide
Microservices architecture offers flexibility, scalability, and ease of deployment and has gained popularity and is a must-have skill for DevOps Engineers. In this blog, we will explore how to create two microservices: Service1 and Service2, using Docker, and push their images to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). We’ll also set up nginx as a reverse […]
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Easily migrate DNS services from a third-party DNS provider to Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail service offers instant installation of WordPress CMS. After installing wordpress, in this blog, we will see how to migrate name server of domain from third party DNS provider to Amazon Lightsail. So, lets start the steps! First step: Simply login to your AWS Account using AWS best practices and open the Amazon Lightsail […]
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Cloud Connection: Networking on AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a robust set of networking services that enable organizations to establish reliable connections, design intricate architectures, and optimize network performance. Here, we explore the major networking services offered by AWS, that help in building a resilient and efficient network in the cloud. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Amazon VPC acts […]