AWS – Riaan's SysAdmin Blog

My tips, howtos, gotchas, snippets and stuff. Use at your own risk!

AWS DynamoDB and special characters

I recently had some issues with AWS DDB and using hyphens. It is highly recommended to stay clear of special

Since it took me a while to get this syntax sorted I am noting this for future use. NOTE: This

If you are familiar with Infrastructure as code (think Terraform() this will sound familiar to you. I wanted to a

Everytime I want to do a CLI query I spend a little time on syntax so recording this just for

I wanted an easier way to test and manipulate a notification using an AWS SNS subscription. Mostly I do a

AWS VPN to Azure VM with Libreswan NOTE: As of this article AWS Site to Site VPN gateway can generate

Example of tar straight to object storage and untar back. $ tar -cP /ARCHIVE/temp/ | gzip | aws s3 cp –

I was trying to schedule a once a week snapshot of a EBS volume and getting “Parameter ScheduleExpression is not

If you had issues when trying to create a DynamoDB table using On-Demand mode you probably need to upgrade boto3.

I recently wanted to take a quick look at the File Gateway. It is described as “Store files as objects