AWS Exam Tips
AWS IAM Permissions Boundaries help to prevent privilege escalations
In this how-to guide, we demonstrate how you can prevent privilege escalations using AWS IAM permission boundaries. IAM permission boundaries are policies that define the maximum level of permissions that can be applied to an IAM user or role.
Automatically Start and Stop EC2 Instances with AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge
In this video, we demonstrate how to automatically start and stop your EC2 instances using AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge. Designed to help you optimise for costs when working with On-Demand EC2 instances, this operational task is a key tool to help you stay aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
The AWS Well Architected Framework matures with the new 6th Pillar – Sustainability Pillar
When architecting technology solutions on AWS, if you neglect the six pillars of operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability, it can become challenging to build a system that delivers on your expectations and requirements. Use the AWS Well Architected Frramwork as a recommended set of best practices upon which to build your cloud solutions.
Here’s What You Need to Know About the New AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam SAA- C03
If you’re familiar with AWS certifications, you’ll know that most of them are updated periodically. Next up on the slate for an upgrade is the Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, which will be moving from SAA-CO2 to SAA-CO3 to cover a new range of Amazon...
Amazon Glacier – AWS Exam Tips
Amazon Glacier is a low-cost archival solution from Amazon Web Services which has been optimised to provide durable storage for data archiving and backup. Data can be stored cost effectively for a longer duration. In addition, Glacier is highly scalable and as such...
AWS Shared Security Model and GDPR – Amazon Web Services
As more companies move their business applications to the AWS cloud, their security becomes a critical issue. Unfortunately, many businesses are not aware of their security responsibility in the AWS cloud environment, and hence leave a huge gap in their security...
AWS SysOps Exam Tips – Monitoring and Reporting for RDS
AWS Sysops Administrator – Monitoring RDS A primary task for an AWS Sysops Administrator is to monitor the core services on the platform. Amazon RDS is one such service that needs to be managed and monitored. Amazon recommends that you create a monitoring plan to...
AWS Organizations and Consolidated Billing
For companies, organizations, and individuals with multiple AWS accounts, managing these accounts can be quite challenging and expensive. Fortunately, Amazon has made it easy with the AWS Organizations which helps to handle such accounts in a scalable way. What is AWS...
Amazon CloudFormation Exam Tips
With Amazon CloudFormation you can design and deploy a collection of related AWS resources that can then be customised into a template for repeat deployment. You can then provision and/or update your resources in an orderly fashion with predictable outcomes. After the...
AMAZON WEB SERVICES GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
Datacenters are crucial for any cloud infrastructure provider, and Amazon AWS, being a global public cloud provider, is constantly building them around the world. Amazon Web Services serves millions of customers around the world and as a result, has to set up a global...
