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ACM check validation

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 admin

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

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AWS Flask Python 

AWS SNS to http subscription receiving in python3 http server and Flask

July 24, 2021July 24, 2021 admin

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

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AWS Azure VPN 

AWS VPN to Libreswan

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 admin

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

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AWS S3 

Using tar and AWS S3

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 admin

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

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AWS Cloudwatch cron 

AWS Cloudwatch Cron

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 admin

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

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AWS boto3 DynamoDB 

Boto3 DynamoDB Create Table BillingMode

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 admin

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

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AWS nfs 

AWS Storage Gateway Test

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 admin

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

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AWS 

AWS Lambda and Python

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 admin

AWS Lambda is a server less computing platform. You can execute your code without provisioning or managing servers. Tested an

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AWS Certbot Linux 

Amazon Linux 2 Image and LAMP

June 1, 2018 admin

I recently migrated a LAMP server from Amazon Linux to an Amazon Linux 2 image.  Several reasons for why I

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AWS Python 

AWS API and Python Boto

January 22, 2017January 22, 2017 admin

Quick note on connection to EC2 to list instances. – Ensure IAM User permissions. In my case I tried EC2FullAccess.

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