Category: AWS
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AWS: Big? Check. Impenetrable? Nope.
Support done right
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You say PowerShell braces, I say PowerShell assignments
I am very gratified with the increasing traffic this blog is receiving from a series of posts that describe how to automate tasks in EC2 in AWS with PowerShell. You can see them all here. As with any creative activity involving language, style is both personal and important. I’ve been getting the impression as I read others’…
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How to manage EC2 EBS volume snapshots with PowerShell
One of the best features of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes in AWS is the capability to incrementally “snapshot” these volumes to more durable S3 storage. Everyone knows that if you don’t create these snapshots, one day your production EBS volume will go “poof” and disappear. Is that why the standard AWS icon, nearby, for a snapshot looks vaguely…
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AWS: the best thing since sliced bread?
At AWS re:Invent last November, I was invited to a marketing panel in which AWS sought customer feedback. I’ll never forget the developer on the panel who kept proclaiming his “love” of AWS — the answer to every question he was asked was, essentially, that AWS is the best technology ever invented. I think even…
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How to kill your Windows Server in EC2 with one click…and how to get it back
This is unlikely to be the most technical post I’ve written lately. But it might be among the most important. Here’s a rule for you: don’t ever disable the only network adapter in a Windows Server machine running in the cloud. Most of you are now saying, “Well…yes” and “Duh.” Just for the record in case it…
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Connect two AD FS federation servers
AD FS setup and configuration
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How to use Amazon.EC2.Model.Filter with PowerShell to identify EC2 instances
PowerShell arrays of hash tables
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Managing EC2 instances in AWS Elastic Load Balancers
A simple PowerShell script to manage EC2 instances in an ELB
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AWS Route 53 private domains: gettin’ there…but hoping for more soon
This blog has been receiving lots of traffic lately to a post on using AWS Route 53 DNS in a VPC. Google features the post in search results for folks interested in the topic and I am gratified that people find it and spend long periods (sometimes more than 20 minutes) reading it — and I presume…
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Connecting to Windows Server on the Mac using RDP
(If you are also interested in a technique to secure RDP connections without having to open TCP 3389, please see this post about Remote Desktop Gateway.) If, like me, you are a Mac user who has responsibility for managing a large number of Windows Server instances running on EC2 in AWS (or in a data…
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A talk with CloudBerry Lab at AWS re:Invent 2014
This week, I’m attending the AWS re:Invent conference (thumbs up) in Las Vegas (thumbs down). I’ve written before about CloudBerry (also here and here) and was pleased to meet with Director of Marketing Alexander Negrash at the conference for an update on CloudBerry. CloudBerry has been a good product from an unknown company. Their website didn’t have…
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Deregister an AWS AMI and remove associated S3 snapshots
Update 2016-04-28: I’ve written an updated version of the script below that offers a graphical interface for managing AMIs. Of course, the script below still works. Recently, I wrote a PowerShell script that uses an EC2 instance’s Name tag to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of that running instance. This post is about a bookend script…