Introduction My team & I manage an AWS organization with 90+ AWS accounts. We recently embarked on a campaign to enforce EBS
March 16, 2023
Automate EC2 AMI Using SSM Document Automation and EventBridge
We will automate the creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the EC2 instance through custom System Manager (SSM) document automation and
January 18, 2023
Create AWS Resources using CloudFormation from SSM Parameter Store
Introduction CloudFormation is generally known as IAC (Infrastructure as Code). We create templates as a blueprint for building AWS resources that are
December 20, 2022
Automatically Test Your EC2 Backups to Ensure Recoverability in Case of Disasters
Backups are important! But testing backups are just as important! Backups that don’t work when restored are just as useless as not
November 23, 2022
Keep Your EC2 Instances Always Up To Date with AWS Systems Manager Maintenance Windows
If you run an EC2-based workload in AWS, you must have a patching strategy in place. Otherwise, you leave yourself exposed to
October 18, 2022
How to Recover lost Windows EC2 instance Key Pair
Introduction In this article, we will discuss how to connect to EC2 instances if the key pair is lost. The following steps
September 28, 2022
Explore AWS Snapshot Behavior of Agentless CNAPP Solutions using CloudTrail & Athena
Introduction We recently evaluated several CNAPP solutions for AWS. Many were agent-based, some were hybrid, while some of these were completely agentless.
September 8, 2022
Export/Backup New Relic APM Metrics Using The NerdGraph GraphQL API
Introduction We recently migrated all our apps from New Relic to Datadog. One of the final steps in this migration, was to
August 19, 2022
Migrate DeploymentConfigs & Routes from OpenShift Templates to Helm Charts
Introduction In an earlier blog post, we looked at how to live migrate running production customer workloads from being managed by OpenShift
July 27, 2022
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