Manually setting AWS API calls to integrate with EventBridge — In this quick tutorial, I am going to walk you to how to configure CloudTrail with EventBridge from the AWS console directly. This integration helps you create very useful event-driven systems where EventBridge could dynamically react to other AWS events through CloudTrail APIs. EventBridge can easily integrate with many target…

Before reading EBS: Elastic Block Storage EC2: Elastic Cloud Compute Goal Untagged resources on AWS can become problematic when managing a big environment. Having a proper strategy for tag naming resources would help in many scenarios, for example troubleshooting, pricing, cleaning. Depending on the tagging policies implemented (if any), there can be many…

EventBridge, Lambda, SSM Documents — Topics Background knowledge: Symmetric/Asymmetric Experimentations before: ping test AWS solution: EventBridge, Lambda and SSM Detail script walkthrough (optional) Experimentations after: ping test Reference Background knowledge Everyone who has configured two network interfaces to send and receive packets on a RHEL or CentOS distribution — version 7 and earlier — knows the hassle of…

Tech Stack Lambda function with Python and Boto3 library DynamoDB to store key metadata about instances and AMIs DynamoDB Streams to capture event changes on tha table Cloudwatch to trigger the automation at X times Terraform to deploy the whole infrastructure (install if you don’t have it) Goal How many times have you…

As for many others, 2020 was a year of many personal and professional changes. The beginning of last year, my H1B work visa stamping was denied. Soon after I got laid off for the same immigration issues. This led to saying good bye to many great relationships. …

Before Reading Before diving deeper into how this script is structured, we need to understand the fundamental steps in this process: 1) Taking a snapshot 2) Creating an encrypted volume from the snapshot 3) Removing the unencrypted volumes These will help us look at the big picture as we progress through the…

Before Reading This function will only run successfully only if an EBS volume is attached right after created. At the moment, this is just working for the general purpose instances where their block device is XVD, not NVME block devices. As always, there needs to be a set of IAM permissions for…

Before Reading CloudWatch agents for monitoring disk and memory need to be installed At the moment, this automation only works with XFS file system volumes This automation only works up to the Partition level — not Logical yet /etc/fstab needs to have a specific format for the script to run successfully IAM…

Before Reading — SES — Simple Email Service: Email service — DynamoDB: NoSQL database service Tech Stack This automation tool is a series of two blogs. This is the second part which will use the following services: — DynamoDB — Terraform — SES — Lambda — Boto3 — CloudWatch Events I am not going…