If you want to quickly send an sms using the AWS CLI, then you can use the following command below. This comes in handy when…
AWS System Manager Parameter Store step-by step tutorial
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provides secure storage for secrets management. You can store data such as passwords, database strings etc parameter values. You…
AWS tutorial: Download an entire S3 bucket using the AWS CLI
Have you ever tried to download an entire bucket with the console? It’s easy to do with the AWS Command Line Interface In this…
How to generate pre signed URL’s for Amazon S3 Objects
What is a pre signed URL ? A user can share private objects with others by creating a pre-signed URL, using their own security credentials,…
Monitor Memory Utilization on EC2 instances with Cloudwatch Custom metrics
If you go to the monitoring tab of your EC2 instance in AWS , you will see that you can only monitor a few things…
What can you do if you lose a .pem file and need to access the server?
There are 2 Options: Make an Amazon Machine Image(AMI). Launch a new instance from the AMI, and specify a new keypair. Detach that EBS Volume…
How to delete a versioned object in your S3 bucket
When you delete an object in a versioned bucket, the object is not deleted. A delete marker is placed on that object. You can still…
What is Elastic Load Balancer Connection Draining?
In AWS, when you enable Connection Draining on a load balancer, any back-end instances that you deregister will complete requests that are in progress before…