Category: AWS
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Create an EC2 AMI using instance name tags via PowerShell
Automate EC2 AMI creation
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How to set up a bastion host for Windows in AWS
Make your AWS EC2 Windows jump servers more secure
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Remote Desktop Manager RDP client for Windows on EC2
One of the first things you need when you start managing multiple Windows Server instances is a really good Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client. To its credit, Microsoft has been on a tear lately with RDP clients, shipping an excellent Mac client (though they inexplicably removed the search functionality in the latest release) and, best…
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How to set up AWS DNS in a VPC
Using DNS with your AWS VPC
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AWS is the new black
Many of you know me as a high-tech (mostly software) marketing executive. But before that career, I was a geek. I was a software developer, a sys admin and a network architect well before many of you were born. Today, I can look out from my office in downtown Boston and see the building in…
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Amazon Glacier saves my SkyDrive, or why you have to backup your cloud storage in the cloud
Lots of people think that if they have a cloud-based disk sharing system (I like SkyDrive), they can’t lose data. Well, I am here to tell you it can — and does — happen. Over the weekend, I upgraded my MacBook Air to OS X Mavericks. On this Mac, I run Microsoft’s SkyDrive client that…
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Stone-cold file backup: Amazon Glacier, Cloudberry and FastGlacier
Recently, I’ve blogged about full-disk image backup of Windows using Clonezilla. I’ve also blogged about the excellent “trust no one” (thanks, Steve Gibson, for this term) CloudBerry file-oriented backup utility. These things help you create a backup. But where should you store the backup? How secure is that backup if you store it in the…