AWS CloudTrail

Category: Monitoring Know how a flight recorder works? Flight recorders are installed in every aircraft to record everything that happens to the systems during a flight. In case of a disaster, these recorders are retrieved and the records are analyzed to determine the root cause of the disaster. Well, not just in case of disasters, …

AWS DynamoDB

Category: Database No-SQL databases are non-relational databases and they have a different approach to storing data. Having said that there are similarities and differences between SQL and No-SQL databases as well as they have their own set of pros and cons. In this post, we discuss DynamoDB which is a managed No-SQL database service by …

AWS Redshift

Category: Database Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data warehousing solution provided by AWS. It is an OLAP type of database service that runs complex queries across a huge dataset. These services are normally used to create business intelligence reports and in decision-making. Organizations that have large amounts of transactional data can process this data to …

AWS RDS

Category: Database There is a reason why database software exists, and why normal flat file storage is not used to store data that is generally stored in a database. The main reason being the time required to read and write data. Databases provide high read-write performance capabilities as compared to file operations. They are broadly …

AWS VPC

Category: Network AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) provides a networking and security layer for the deployed AWS resources like EC2, RDS, and similar other resources. VPCs form the basis of any cloud architecture. By default, they are isolated from other AWS services or networks. Compared to the real-world networks, AWS VPCs abstract most of the …

AWS S3

Category: Storage Amazon provides object storage service in the form of S3 - Simple Storage Service. This service is used to store data in the form of objects or files. It is very easy to use S3, but at the same time looking at the number of configuration options provided by Amazon it can get …

AWS Elastic Block Store

Category: Storage While assembling a PC from scratch, we connect various components to build a working machine. One of the components we add for storage is SSD/HDD. AWS Elastic Block Store is the same for virtual machines/EC2 instances. Think of this as a removable hard disk for VMs. AWS EBS provides a way to add …

AWS EC2

Category: Compute AWS Elastic Compute Cloud, more commonly known as EC2 is one of the core services offered by AWS. At a very basic level, EC2 are virtual machines. These virtual machines can be used as servers of various kinds - web servers, application servers, CDNs, jump servers, etc. Cloud computing offers various advantages and …

Terraform Workflow

In this series, we have been using Terraform by ourselves. We defined the infrastructure - created a plan, created the infrastructure itself and also we saved our code to Github. We had the choice to store and maintain states locally.  However, using Terraform in a team where more than one developer are contributing to the …

Terraform Provisioners

Okay, enough talking about creating cloud resources! We have created a couple of instances using our Terraform code. But, now what? We usually spin up cloud resources for some purpose. When the resources are successfully created, it is rather a start of something. What are provisioners? Cloud resources by themselves are not much of use. …