Category: Cloud computing
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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…
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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…