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AWS announced its new database service for customers called "Amazon Aurora" which I have been waiting for since a long time. It delivers up to 5X performance of MySQL with high availability in 3 different regions. As it is new to all of us, so today we will be having hands on experience on AURORA Cluster for MySQL. I have segregated...
AWS has recently launched a new service which is now available generally. AWS CodeCommit is the service we would be talking briefly about in this blog. AWS CodeCommit hosts private Git repositories. You can Store code & any other type of file with AWS CodeCommit. It follows Git standards & can be used with other tools for...
The purpose of this blog post is to acknowledge a use case of AWS autoscaling. During auto-scaling in AWS, we often pass user-data and that user-data keeps growing with time due to which an instance spin time is increased significantly. For that purpose, we need to create latest AMI time to time with all the user-data packages...
In AWS, we can enable ELB logs and save them on S3 bucket. Analysing the ELB logs provide end-to-end visibility of all requests, but it's a quiet big challenge to get a granular detail of each request. Sumo Logic collect logs from various resources and we can analyse these logs with respect to various parameters. It uses log reduce...
Infrastructure monitoring in the cloud is the topmost priority for any application running in the cloud. This includes monitoring the web servers, databases, applications & various tools being used. Datadog not only provides monitoring but also has alerts integrated so that you get notified for certain type of issues which occur. For...
This post showcases the latest functionality added to puppet resource library to manage AWS resources. Various AWS resources like EC2 instances, route53, RDS and ELB etc. can be managed, described and created using this module. This will also help to keep track of launching an instance in a new security group or an existing one and...
Recently, I came across an interesting use case i.e to put alarms on custom metrics of autoscaling instances. Lets consider there is an autoscaling group for production environment and you need to put alarm on disk and memory utilization custom metrics. To accomplish that you need to follow the steps described below: 1. Create disk and...
MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database that stores data in JSON like documents dynamic schemas instead of storing your data in tables and rows as you do with a relational database. In this blog we will setup Mongo DB replication on single node to demonstrate high availability and failover mechanism. What is a MongoDB Replica Set ? We...
Today we're going to demonstrate the use of switch role feature that AWS has introduced a few months back. This feature enables an IAM user to use switch role directly in AWS Management Console to access resources across multiple AWS accounts. E.g Lets say an IAM user X of Account 1 wants to access resources associated with Account 2....
Docker has gained a lot of attention these days. The main reasons which we know of are that it saves a lot of resources & one can have n number of environments within one server/machine. It being platform independent, is one more plus point for using docker & hence is one of the fastest growing technologies. In this blog we...
In continuation to my previous Blog on Elastic Beanstalk (Grails Application) , I would now tell you how to deploy a PHP application via Elastic Beanstalk. So, again, we will quickly go through what AWS Elastic Beanstalk does. It is deploying your application in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure & making your...
In one of my recent projects, while working on Jenkins, I was required to create and implement a Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy. Installation of Jenkins is a simple task, but it took me a while to implement this strategy and later I found it quite easy enough and thought of writing a blog. Project-based Matrix...
