Blog category: AWS

How to tag Redshift clusters (and others) in one place in AWS Console

Management page of Redshift in AWS Console does not currently allow you to add or modify tags on your clusters. That doesn’t mean that Redshift resources cannot be tagged - almost everything from clusters to parameters groups can be tagged through the Tag Editor.

Bypassing CloudTrail and CloudWatch monitoring of AWS API

Since AWS released CloudWatch Logs and allowed for automated streaming of CloudTrail events into CloudWatch, monitoring API usage with CloudWatch metrics and alerts has become increasingly popular. It’s incredibly easy to set up and add custom alerts on almost any API event. But is it actually going to notify you when an unauthorized person gains access?

Adding more nodes to Redshift cluster doesn't always mean you get more space

AWS Redshift is a big data storage (“data warehousing”) solution for analytics. Based on PostgreSQL 8, it can combine up to 128 largest nodes, giving you 2 petabytes for your data. Well, almost. You don’t get ALL that for your data.

AWS S3 storage classes pricing is not what you think

Since publishing this post, AWS reached out to us about the RR pricing. See bottom of the post for the update.

When storing data in S3, at some point everyone asks the question about storage classes. At first glance it looks more or less simple - if you’re accessing your data less often, or it’s not very important, you can pay less. Until you look into details, find all the asterisks and compare the actual numbers.

First thoughts after AWS Certified Security - Specialty BETA exam

Last week I made an attempt at passing one of the new AWS Specialty exams - Security.