Posts on AWS.
Last week, I finally had the time to schedule my AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam, which I passed on Saturday. It’s been a while since I did the other AWS Professional level (DevOps) certificate, but I thought I’d share my take on how the exams compare.
Recently, I noticed a weird KMS key on an AWS account - what was weird about it, was the fact that it wasn’t marked as AWS-managed key, but no-one (not even root) could delete or modify the key!
Recently AWS announced support for Elasticsearch 5.1 in their Elasticsearch Service. Today, I tried to upgrade an existing CloudFormation stack, previously using Elasticsearch 2.3, to the new version and, after a very long wait, CloudFormation rolled back the stack with the following error: “Creating Elasticsearch Domain did not stabilize”. Here’s what I did to solve it.
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.
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?
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