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Compliance Management with AWS Config (Compliance as Code)
AWS Config provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in your AWS account and is a powerful tool for security and governance.  AWS Config can record and track changes to the configuration of many types of resources in AWS. Config...
HOWTO: Use CloudFormation to tag new EC2 instances with Lambda function, EventBridge, VPC and CloudTrail
In this tutorial, we will automate the tagging of new EC2 instances using CloudFormation templates. In the previous tutorial, we learnt how to tag AWS EC2 instances when they are created. We created an event rule in EventBridge to trigger a Lambda function...
HOWTO: Use EventBridge to trigger a Lambda function written in Python to tag EC2 instances
In this tutorial, we will learn to tag AWS EC2 instances when they are created using Lambda function, written in Python. We will create a rule in EventBridge to trigger a Lambda function whenever a user creates a new AWS EC2 instance. The Lambda function...
HOWTO: AWS Resource explorer to find all resources across regions
Have you ever had a surprise AWS bill for things that you forgot to shut down or delete? No more fumbling through the management console to find resources in an AWS account. AWS Resource Explorer was released in November 2022, it is a managed capability...
HOWTO: Deploy Docker Containers on Amazon ECS using Fargate with Amazon ECS-CLI
In this tutorial, we will deploy docker containers on Amazon ECS using AWS Fargate. We will be using ECS-CLI to build the stack step by step. Amazon ECS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a command line tool for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)...
HOWTO: Build CloudTrail Trail with CloudFormation Template for easy builds and tear down
This post is on how to create a CloudTrail Trail with S3 and CloudWatch in CloudFormation. In my previous article, I had provided 8 tips on how to configure CloudTrail for secure logging and auditing via the AWS management console. In this post, I have...
8 Tips for AWS CloudTrail for security monitoring and best practices
1. CloudTrail is turned on by default and will store logs in the CloudTrail portal for 90 days. To extend the retention of the logs past 90 days, you need to configure a trail to send the logs to an S3 bucket. Additionally, you can also send the logs...
HOWTO: Automate builds with CloudFormation for API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, and Amplify
In this tutorial, you will create AWS CloudFormation templates to build a serverless web application using AWS lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Cognito and AWS Amplify. This application enables users to request rides from the Wild Rydes...
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