AWS

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming Using AWS

Adaptive Bitrate streaming is a technique employed in video streaming which detects end user's bandwidth and calibrates the video bitrate accordingly to guarantee the best viewing experience. This works by encoding source into streams of different bitrates and then each stream is fragmented into smaller multi-second chunks. A manifest...

by Hitesh Bhatia
Tag: aws
01-Apr-2014

AWS

Using multiple IAM Accounts through AWS CLI tool

AWS CLI tool allows you to switch between multiple IAM accounts. This becomes very handy while you are writing a script that involves multiple IAM user accounts. Prerequisites : AWS CLI tool Configuring Multiple Accounts: When you configure your AWS CLI tool, a configuration file gets created at ~/.aws/config in Linux/Unix or...

by ravi
Tag: aws
27-Feb-2014

AWS

Increasing EBS Volume Performance

EBS (Elastic Blog Storage) is a virtual Hard drive which one can attach to an EC2 Instance. By default Amazon provides standard EBS with 100 IOPS (Input Output operation per second) which is equivalent to our normal hard-drive (7200 RPM), used at our homes. That works fine in a lot of cases but sometimes if we have a server with high I/O...

by abhishek.tomar
Tag: aws
25-Feb-2014

AWS

Automating deployment of a static website hosted on Amazon S3

Most of us know how to host a static website on Amazon S3, but to deploy the website you would need to run the AWS Cli command everytime manually. In this blog I'll show you how to automatically deploy your website while maintaining version control of your project using server side hook provided by Git. Prerequisite : Git Aws...

by ravi
Tag: aws
25-Feb-2014

Grails

S3 Bucket Permission

Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) allows its customer to maintain full control over who has access to their data with the help of its Identity Access Management (IAM) service and S3 bucket policies. For example, using Bucket Permission, one can give only reading access to one user, whereas using same permission/policy options, he...

by abhishek.tomar
Tag: aws
24-Feb-2014

AWS

Setup custom CloudWatch metrics on EC2 instance

AWS provides its user the Cloud Monitoring service which is used to keep a check on the resources being used. It can be a great tool for developers and system administrators for cases like: Monitoring data/graphs Setting up alarms Identify trends Take actions based on the state of cloud environment But AWS does not provide...

by abhishek.tomar
Tag: aws
17-Jan-2014

AWS

IAM Role based access to S3 bucket.

In one of our projects, we came across a requirement where we were required to fetch a file containing important data from S3 in order to use it. Due to Security concerns we were not keen on storing access keys on the EC2 instance. Which basically meant that we could not configure S3 on that very system as configuring S3 would create a...

by Hitesh Bhatia
Tag: aws
29-Dec-2013

AWS, DevOps

Installing Oracle 11g on Cloud (EC2 instance RHEL/Centos 6.x) through command line

You may find many blogs on internet providing step-by-step guidelines to install Oracle 11g on RHEL/Centos 6.x but what's different here is, I would be discussing the installation of Oracle 11g on AWS EC2 instance through CLI in cases where you do not have access to physical system. I believe the best example to showcase this environment...

by ankush
Tag: aws
23-Dec-2013

AWS

Beginner’s guide to AWS auto-scaling

Recently, we’re about to launch a new app but we did not have any idea about the traffic we’ll get. It could have been in hundreds or even thousands. So, we decided to go for Amazon’s Auto Scaling feature. Auto Scaling is the appropriate solution for your app when you are not certain about your app’s traffic or in cases where the...

by abhishek.tomar
Tag: aws
17-Dec-2013

Technology

First Hand Experience of Day 1 at AWS Re:Invent’13 – by IntelliGrape

It was an amazing day for IntelliGrape at AWS Re:Invent: the largest gathering of developers and technical leaders from the AWS community. Attendees from across the globe are present here to take advantage of 175+ sessions, training bootcamps, hands-on labs, and Hackathon to gain deeper skills and knowledge of the AWS Cloud. ...

by Bansi
Tag: aws
13-Nov-2013

AWS

10 MUST ATTEND sessions at AWS ReInvent’13

AWS Re: Invent’13, November 12-15, 2013 - Las Vegas is going to be the cloud event of the year. With a total of 202 sessions across 13 tracks in 4 days; 361 speakers, 174 from AWS team and 186 from customer base which is 34% more than total sessions in 2012. With session list announced a month ago and exclusive session builder already...

by Bansi
Tag: aws
06-Nov-2013

AWS

Evening Session on AWS CloudFront & Auto Scaling by Amazon and IntelliGrape Software

IntelliGrape Software (Now TO THE NEW Digital) in association with AWS presented an Evening Session on AWS CloudFront & Auto Scaling at Hyatt Regency, Delhi on 27th September. The event saw engagement from CEOs, CTOs and CIOs of e-commerce companies, start-ups and enterprises with a purpose to understand CloudFront and Auto Scaling...

by Bansi
Tag: aws
30-Sep-2013