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Category Archives: Amazon Web Services
AWS – Promote read replica to a standalone RDS instance
In order to scale the Amazon database (RDS) you could either reboot the RDS instance to a larger size or create a slave RDS instance called a read replica. Adding more read replicas allowes for offloading of the read-only queries. … Continue reading
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Delaying attacks on AWS
Because the AWS instances sit behind a load balancer you can’t block by IP on a firewall however you have use the X-FORWARDER-FOR variable in the header. find the IP address you need to block from the relevant apache log … Continue reading
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AWS Consolidated Billing & Tags
Do you have multiple client instances setup in a single Amazon account? How can you break down the costs per customer? AWS now provide a way to break your billing down and show usage per instance, this allows you to … Continue reading
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AWS S3 bucket name restrictions and using https (secure)
There are some restrictions when naming and accessing S3 objects. Bucket name restrictions In all regions except for the US Standard region a bucket name must comply with the following rules. These result in a DNS compliant bucket name. Bucket … Continue reading
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Amazon – Installing SSL certificates and Errors
Amazon now allows you to manage Listeners, SSL certificates and also the SSL ciphers on an existing Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). These changes can happen via the AWS API or via the AWS web console. You can now add new … Continue reading
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Amazon web services talk at BCS
As a committee member of the British Computer Society Internet specialist group, I thought it would be a good idea to arrange a talk on some aspect of cloud. Cloud is now maturing as a technology in many different ways. … Continue reading