The goal of this post is to walk through the creation of a AWS test environment which I use to explore the Python SDK interactions with DyanmoDB. For learning I use the free tier and so used to create the environment as needed manually. After doing this once I decided to encapsulate the configuration in a Cloud …

My goal here is to setup a simple RESTful API which accepts GET and POST methods to trigger a Lambda Function to read and put information into DynamoDB. First we’ll create a test DynamoDB table and put some items into it, aws dynamodb create-table --table-name 'MyTable' --attribute-definitions …

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is a collection of capabilities that helps you automate management tasks such as collecting system inventory, applying operating system (OS) patches, automating the creation of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and configuring operating systems (OSs) and applications at scale. Amazon EC2 Systems …

AWS dynamoDB is a really useful key-value store which is really easy to consume from scripts. However while the AWS Powershell module contains functions for ‘Managing Tables’ it does not contain functions for ‘Reading Data’ or ‘Modifying Data’. I had found Julian Biddle had written a …

In this post I look at setting up AWS VPC peering using Ansible. To do this we will start simple and add complexity to our configuration, we will start with peering within a single account and then move to script across accounts. Local Peering I’ll start by configuring two VPCs within the same account a single …

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, …

The AWS Server Migration Service simplifies and streamlines the process of migrating existing virtualized applications to Amazon EC2. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations. Presently this …

While studying to become a AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional I have been passed and found lots of resources, in this post I am trying to store the links which are useful. I started my journey with the AWS exam blueprint. This is I believe the perfect place to start to study as it describes when exactly …

The ‘AWSome Day’ is a roadshow for people new to Amazon Web Services Cloud. I am about to change roles to work with customer solutions leveraging Amazon Web Services Cloud rather than VMware private cloud. I’ve just passed the entry level ‘AWS Business Professional’ and ‘AWS …

NetApp has often been a pioneer of bleeding edge concepts in storage. When designing data ONTAP and the WAFL file system they were the first to look at creating a virtual control plane for data. They also pioneered fully non disruptive upgrades when the introduced clustered data ONTAP. They then introduced ONTAP Edge …