Site Monitoring Using A Lambda Function
Background
I use a site monitoring service, which allows me to monitor my site by running a check every 5 minutes. When the site is...
Set Retention for CloudWatch Logs
Amazon provides us with CloudWatch logs to monitor, store and access log from various AWS services like, EC2 instances, Route 53, RDS, AWS CloudTrail,...
Lambda Function To Stop Long Running EC2 Instances
Background
While working in my personal AWS account, sometimes I forget to shut EC2 instances down. Most of these instances do not cost much to...
AWS Lambda Layer for Python package requests
In my previous post, I made a layer for pymysql to access an RDS from Lambda. In this post, I will show how to...
AWS Encryption CLI Examples
Background
In this post I am going to demonstrate how to use the AWS Encryption CLI to perform client side encryption and decryption of files...
How to detect change in AWS Security Group and take action
Security Groups are virtual firewalls that control the traffic to your AWS resources like EC2 and RDS. Your instances must have at least one...
