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Security is of prime importance for any cloud vendor including AWS. AWS follows a Shared Responsibility Model for security. As the name Shared Responsibility Model suggests, security on AWS is not the sole responsibility of either AWS or the customer. It is a combined effort from both parties. The responsibility of AWS includes providing...
Locust is open source and distributed load testing tool , intend to load test websites. A fundamental feature of locust is that you can describe all your test case in python code. This lightweight, distributed and scalable framework helps us to find out how many concurrent users a system can handle by writing test case scenarios in...
AWS Lambda is a compute service where we can upload our code to AWS Lambda and the service can run the code on our behalf using AWS infrastructure. AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to Amazon EC2 instances. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier to rapidly release new features, helps to avoid downtime during...
AWS recommends to rotate your IAM user's Access keys periodically. Sometime we create access keys for IAM user and keep using it. We forget to rotate the keys after a period of time, which is not considered as a good practice. Recently, we came across a use case wherein we were supposed to rotate the access keys which were created 90...
EC2 Backup Manager : Python Scripts One of the most important requirements in any projects is regular backups. On one of our projects we were using Netflix's backup monkey and graffiti monkey combined to take snapshots of all the volumes in the account. But this deviated slightly from our requirement, we only required the backups of...
In continuation with my previous blog "Getting Started with Boto ( python Interface for AWS )", today we are going to discuss one of the use case that we used to do daily. Deleting EBS Snapshot which is N days older. We'll be writing python script using Boto library to delete EBS snapshots which is 30 days older. For this we will be...
Since we have already covered the basic configuration and installation of boto in the previous blog by @Vikash, Here we will be discussing about one of the common use case of daily routine. In this script we will find out the snapshot of the particular volume in specific region.So parameter to find the snapshots are Region:In which...
Introduction Boto is a python package which provides an interface for AWS. With boto library, we can call the AWS resources using python script. This article walks you through the step by step guide for using boto library for calling AWS resources. Step 1 : Installation Step 2 : Configuration Step 3 : Creating...
In continuation with my previous article EBS Snapshot using Backup_Monkey, we have discussed one issue associated with BackUp Monkey utility. The issue was that it use's "BACKUP_MONKEY" prefix and tag the snapshot with this prefix. As you can see in the Description, BACKUP_MONKEY prefix is used. So this create's a redundancy while...
Getting EBS Snapshot with BackUp Monkey [ a python utility ] Backup_Monkey : It's a command line utility written in python that uses boto library. Purpose : To create snapshot of all the Elastic Block Storage volume's (EBS). Automatically detects the volume in the region and take the backup. It is especially designed...
