Amazon Network Load Balancer with ALB as Target Group

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https://youtu.be/8PtSAncWNwM The goal of this lab is to create Network Load Balancer; but instead using different target group we will use ALB as target group . Pre-Step 1) You need to have and ALB ready and we have it as follows: Here is the link for ALB When you type example.com/video.html it will go to… Read more »

Amazon AWS Application Load Balancer

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https://youtu.be/fHI22nijPOw Application Load Balancer (ALB ) Lab Practice Before we do the lab, we need to setup the infrastructure with these 4 instances as follows: You need 4 Virtual Linux Machines PC1 should be called LinuxPic1: us-east-1a PC2 should be called LinuxPic2 : us-east-1a PC3 should be called LinuxVideo3: us-east-1c PC4 should be called LinuxVideo4:… Read more »

AWS Cloud Practitioner Sample Exam Questions

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Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner Sample Exam with Explanation 1) Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads? a) Amazon EC2 costs are billed on a monthly basis. b) Users retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances. c) Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on demand when… Read more »

How to use AWS Certificate Manager with AWS CloudFormation

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Automate issuing a public DNS validated certificate Before the ACM can issue a certificate for your site, it must verify that you own or control all of the domain names that you specified in your request. You can choose either email validation or DNS validation when you request a certificate. Previously, when you requested DNS validation, you had to manually add… Read more »

How to Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts

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DB Instances on AWS Outposts AWS launched support for MySQL and PostgreSQL, with plans to add other database engines in the future Creating a DB Instance Create a DB Instance using the RDS Console, API (CreateDBInstance), CLI (create-db-instance), or CloudFormation (AWS::RDS::DBInstance). I’ll use the Console, taking care to select the AWS Region that serves as… Read more »

Amazon AWS VPC vs Transit Gateway

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Here we will have 3 VPC as follow and if you remember VPC do not offer transitive Peering; in order to make a peering between all VPC ; we need to make sure all VPC are peer together and this take a lots of time and effort.   That is if VPC1 is peering VPC2… Read more »

AWS & Splunk Integrate

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AWS CloudTrail About the Splunk App for AWS. The Splunk App for AWS gives you critical operational and security insight into your Amazon Web Services account. The app includes: A pre-built knowledge base of dashboards, reports, and alerts that deliver real-time visibility into your environment. AWS Config with Splunk In addition to displaying Amazon CloudWatch logs and metrics in Splunk dashboards, you can use AWS… Read more »

Splunk® And Amazon Web Services

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Tech Brief Exerpts When it comes to the cloud, you can’t secure, operate or manage costs for what you can’t see. As more of your critical workloads move to AWS, you need end-to-end visibility to: • Ensure AWS deployments meet or exceed security and compliance standards• Guarantee AWS-based applications and services meet defined SLAs• Gain… Read more »

How to Enable Elastic IP addresses on AWS SFTP server endpoint?

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To make your AWS SFTP server accessible using Elastic IP addresses, create an internet-facing endpoint for your server. However, if you must change the listener port to a port other than port 22 (for migration), then follow these steps: Important: Don’t proceed with the following steps if your listener port can be port 22. Instead,… Read more »

How to Install Python on Amazon Linux Server

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How to Install Python on Amazon Linux Server In technical terms, Python is an object-oriented, high-level programming language with integrated dynamic semantics primarily for web and app development. It is extremely attractive in the field of Rapid Application Development because it offers dynamic typing and dynamic binding options. Python is relatively simple, so it’s easy… Read more »

Amazon AWS : Lambda – Backup EC2 Instance

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How to backup an EC2 instance through Lambda Amazon AWS EBS Backup via Lambda and CloudWatch https://youtu.be/_FX9XY3uDQw The goal is to backup the EBS volume via AWS lambda and CloudWatch , we will do it two way ; One will be done in 1 Min interval ( using the Lambda function and another one using… Read more »

Amazon AWS WAF ( Web Application Firewall)

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https://youtu.be/44fLhN6xtKk Amazon AWS Confiuguring WAF to Block IP address AWS WAF is a web application firewall service that helps protect your web apps from common exploits that could affect app availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources In here we have two instances called LinuxWebserver1 and Linux Webserver3 that are part of Application Load Balancer;… Read more »

Amazon AWS Solution Architecture Practice Exam 2019 – Part 2

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Question 6) A web application allows customers to upload orders to an S3 bucket. The resulting Amazon S3 events trigger a Lambda function that inserts a message to an SQS queue. A singleEC2 instance reads messages from the queue, processes them, and stores them in an DynamoDB table partitioned by unique order ID. Next month… Read more »

Amazon AWS Solution Architecture Practice Exam 2019 – Part 1

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Question 1) A company is storing an access key (access key ID and secret access key) in a text file on a custom AMI. The company uses the access key to access DynamoDBtables from instances created from the AMI. The security team has mandated a more secure solution.Which solution will meet the security team’s mandate?… Read more »

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – Foundational Sample Exam Questions

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        1) Why is AWS more economical than traditional data centers for applications with varying compute workloads? A) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) costs are billed on a monthly basis.B) Customers retain full administrative access to their Amazon EC2 instances.C) Amazon EC2 instances can be launched on-demand when needed.D) Customers can… Read more »

Amazon AWS Network Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

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        Feature Application Load Balancer Network Load Balancer Classic Load Balancer Protocols HTTP, HTTPS TCP TCP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, HTTPS Platforms VPC VPC EC2-Classic, VPC Health checks ✔ ✔ ✔ CloudWatch metrics ✔ ✔ ✔ Logging ✔ ✔ ✔     Path-Based Routing ✔ Host-Based Routing ✔ Native HTTP/2 ✔ ✔ SSL offloading… Read more »

Amazon AWS – CloudWatch Custom Metrics , Monitoring

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  Monitoring EC2 with Custom Metrics   You can monitor your EC2 using CloudWatch using: CPU Network Disk Status Check Please note that RAM Utilization is a customer metric. By Default Ec2 monitors is for 5 mins interval, unless you enable detailed monitoring which will then make it 1 min intervals ( it will cost… Read more »

Amazon AWS OpsWorks Tutorial

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Amazon AWS OpsWorks   What is OpsWorks ?     AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef  . OpsWorks lets you use Chef to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.   It has these parts :   Chef… Read more »

Amazon AWS SSE-S3 Server Side Encryption Pt 1

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      AWS provides various options to encrypt your data on S3.   There are 2 types of encryption:   Client side: Client encrypts locally using tool/software of their choices Server Side encryption: Choose from available choices in AWS In this video, our focus will be Server Side Encryption (SSE) since Client side is… Read more »

Amazon AWS S3 VPC Endpoint

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  Amazon AWS S3 Endpoint       In Here we have One VPC =10.0.0.0/16  also we have  three Subnet as follow 10.0.1.0/24 Public Subnet1 10.0.2.0/24 Private Subnet2 10.0.3.0/24 Public Subnet3   I have two server one is called Public1 inside the Public Subnet=10.0.1.0/24 with Public Ip address: 34.201.13.154 Private Ip address = 10.0.1.183 Password… Read more »

Amazon Alexa Skills Development Tutorial

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                             In this video, we share how we made a quiz skill that has a database integration so that your progress can be saved.    These are the components of an Alexa skill:  Interaction model (acts like a front-end interface) Logic (Code… Read more »

Amazon Cloud Formation With Word Press Website

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  Step1: Go to Cloud formation Page Create a stack Step 2: Click on select from templates and choose WordPress Blog Step 3: Choose the parameters like username, password, key etc ** make sure you choose the right ssh key because we need to log in to the EC2 server later Step 4: On the… Read more »

Amazon AWS CLI S3 With Auto-Complete

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  Autocomplete Lesson: To add the autocomplete feature: $ echo “complete -C aws_completer aws” >> ~/.bash_profile $ source ~/.bash_profile S3 CLI commands Create a bucket: $ aws s3 mb s3://test-saurav-123 Remove the bucket: $ aws s3 rb test-saurav-123 Creating empty files in Linux : $ touch file{1..10} Copy a local file to a bucket: $… Read more »

Amazon AWS Auto Scaling with Load Balancing

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    Step 1) I will take image of One of My Web server called Webserver1, when I go to public IP address I will see the content of the Web server Step 2) I will stop the Instance; then Take an image of it. Call it “Webserver1Image” Step 3) Now I will see the… Read more »

Amazon AWS Lambda Tutorial – Schedule to Stop EC2 Instances

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  Lambda is an event-driven compute service. We have functions that execute when a trigger is triggered. In today’s lab, we will set up a trigger with Cloud watch Events. On top of that, we will need an IAM role that gives our lambda function permissions to Stop EC2 Instances. We will also add Cloud… Read more »

Amazon AWS EFS Elastic File System and ELB

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Amazon AWS EFS with ELB       EFS (Elastic File System) Features EFS is storage option for EC2, that can be attached to more than one EC2, remember Volume can only be attached to one EC2 EFS is Elastic, and it is scalable ( The storage capacity will increase or decrease as you add… Read more »

Amazon AWS EBS and Instance and Volume and Snapshot Part 1 and 2

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EBS Vs Instance Store, Snapshot, and Volume       Instance Store Volumes are sometimes called Ephemeral Storage. Instance Store volumes cannot be stopped. If the underlying host fails, you will lose your data. EBS backed instances can be stopped. You will not lose the data in this instance if it is stopped. You can… Read more »

Amazon SNS notification with S3

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Simple Notification Service (SNS)     SNS is integrated into many AWS services. We are able to use it to receive notifications when events occur in our AWS Environment. With CloudWatch and SNS a full environment monitoring solution could be created that notifies administrators of alerts, capacity issues, downtime, changes in the environment, and more!… Read more »

Amazon AWS Application Elastic Load Balance (ELB)

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Follow @ASM_Educational           Step 1) Create Target Group 1 (Pic) and Target Group 2 (video) Step 2) Associate /Register the above group with EC1(Pic1) and EC2 (Pic2) with group 1 click target Tab ( Make sure click to add to register , then Save ) Step 3) Associate /Register the above… Read more »

Amazon AWS Nat Instance and NAT gateway

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Follow @ASM_Educational       The NAT Instance Install the NAT instance from Community AMI When creating a NAT instance , make sure Disable source/destination check Nat Instance must be in public subnet There must be route out of private subnet and pointed to NAT instance You Need to have a Security group for NAT… Read more »

Amazon AWS DNS Records Types

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Follow @ASM_Educational   From Wikipedia     Type Description Function A Address Record  Returns a 32-bit IPv4 address, most commonly used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host,but it is also used for DNSBLs, storing subnet masks in RFC 1101, etc. CNAME  Canonical Name Record Alias of one name to another: the… Read more »

Amazon AWS-Getting Started with Elastic Load Balancing

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Source By: <docs.aws.amazon.com> Getting Started with Elastic Load Balancing This tutorial provides a hands-on introduction to Application Load Balancers through the AWS Management Console, a web-based interface. To create your first Application Load Balancer, complete the following steps.     Tasks Before You Begin Step 1: Select a Load Balancer Type Step 2: Configure Your… Read more »

Amazon AWS-What Is Elastic Load Balancing?

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Source By: <docs.aws.amazon.com>   What Is Elastic Load Balancing? Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones. This increases the fault tolerance of your applications. The load balancer serves as a single point of contact for clients, which increases the availability of your application. You can add and… Read more »

Amazon S3

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Amazon S3 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable cloud storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use object storage, with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. With Amazon S3, you pay only for the storage… Read more »

Amazon AWS-What is Amazon VPC?

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Source By: <docs.aws.amazon.com>   Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined.

Setting Up with Amazon EC2

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If you’ve already signed up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can start using Amazon EC2 immediately. You can open the Amazon EC2 console, click Launch Instance, and follow the steps in the launch wizard to launch your first instance.

What Is Amazon EC2?

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster.

What Is AWS Amazon S3?

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Amazon Simple Storage Service is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

FREE AWS Exam Retake codes

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FREE AWS Exam Retake codes Looking to advance your career and validate your skills? Get AWS Certified and stand out from other professionals with a recognized credential. Boost your confidence with an extra exam retake opportunity (AWPR9A223835), available only with Pearson VUE. Take advantage of this limited-time promotion to schedule and complete your exam between… Read more »