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AWS Tools for PowershellMarch 8, 2018 - 6:19 pm
Git Quick ReferenceMarch 7, 2018 - 5:50 pm
Designing a Highly Available Web App InfrastructureFebruary 20, 2018 - 2:03 pm
Deploying A Web App on EC2February 7, 2018 - 2:56 pm
Create PDF and Send it by eMail with Google Apps ScriptDecember 13, 2017 - 7:40 pm
Deploying Code on AWS Lambda using GitHub and AWS Cloud9December 7, 2017 - 2:09 pm
AWS CLI Cheat SheetOctober 28, 2017 - 6:45 am
Don’t Use PuTTy – Natively Connect to an AWS Linux instance via SSH on Windows InsteadOctober 27, 2017 - 9:58 pm
Fault Tolerance with Application Load Balancing in AWS.October 27, 2017 - 7:14 am
AWS Tools for Powershell
Git Quick Reference
Designing a Highly Available Web App Infrastructure
This activity starts with an app running on a single EC2 instance in a single availability zone. Then I make it highly available by cloning it and deploying it in an Auto Scaling group behind an Elastic Load Balancer that spans two availability zones. Create an image of an existing Amazon EC2 instance and use […]
Deploying A Web App on EC2
Build a VPC and deploy a web app onto an EC2 instance using a user data script to configure the server and application code.
Create PDF and Send it by eMail with Google Apps Script
Use Google Apps Script to automate the creation of a customized PDF from a document template and send it by eMail.
Deploying Code on AWS Lambda using GitHub and AWS Cloud9
I live in Plymouth MA and spend a fair bit of time on the water during the summer time in and around the area here and on Cape Cod. What I needed was an Alexa skill to give me the tides for my favorite beaches. But there wasn’t one available for my region. So I made one called Cape Cod Tides.
AWS CLI Cheat Sheet
The AWS CLI is a handy and extremely powerful tool for managing resources on AWS from a local shell. In this post we will walk through the process of setting up the AWS CLI on a Linux Machine ( I use the Linux Subsystem on Windows which gives me an Ubuntu bash). Then we begin using the […]
Don’t Use PuTTy – Natively Connect to an AWS Linux instance via SSH on Windows Instead
I need to SSH regularly into Linux machines on AWS. I want to just hop over into a CLI and SSH on over to my instance from my Windows 10 machine but the common way of doing so is to configure and launch PuTTy to establish the SSH session. I like PuTTy, but there are […]
Fault Tolerance with Application Load Balancing in AWS.
The Elastic Load Balancer helps ensure traffic is evenly distributed across servers. Very helpful when dealing with high traffic loads and potential denial of service conditions whether accidental or intentional. AWS ELB comes in three flavors, Application Load Balancer ALB, Network Load Balancer NLB, and the Classic Elastic Load Balancer. With the AWS ELB service, inbound traffic […]