22 hours agoMember-onlyCreating A Custom AWS Config Rule Using AWS Config Rules Development KitIn this post, we’ll see how we can create a custom AWS Config rule using AWS Config Rules Development Kit. Our rule will check the age of all the KMS CMK and if the age is greater than the threshold defined, it will return as NON_COMPLIANT. Pre-requisite: AWS Config should…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyCreating Multi-Architecture Images Using Docker ManifestsIn this post, we’ll see how we can create a multi-architecture image using Docker manifest which can run on amd as well as arm platform. Note: I am using a Mac with M1 chip, so by default my architecture is arm64. Step 1: Follow https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/nodejs-docker-webapp/ and create a docker image…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·5 days agoMember-onlyConfiguring Failover In A Route53 Private Hosted ZoneIn this post, we’ll see how we can configure failover in a Route53 private hosted zone. Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover-private-hosted-zones.html Pre-requisites: You need to have a VPC in 2 regions(We’ll be using us-east-1 and us-west-2) with VPC peering configured between them along with the route table configurations. Also create a security group…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published in AWS Tip·5 days agoMember-onlyCustom Domain Name For Private AWS REST APIIn this post, we’ll see how we can setup custom domain name for a private REST API in AWS API Gateway. By default, AWS does not support custom domain name for Private REST API, but we can achieve this using a mix of different services. Reference: https://disaster-recovery.workshop.aws/en/labs/advanced/api-gateway.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/privateca/latest/userguide/Create-CA-CLI.html Note: We’ll…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·6 days agoMember-onlyArchiving And Replaying Events Using AWS EventBridge Event BusIn this post, we’ll see how we can archive and replay events using AWS EventBridge Event Bus Step 1: Create a new event bus following the instructions given at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-create-event-bus.html. Enable Event archive while creating the bus. Step 2: Create an event archive for this bus following the instructions given…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published in Towards AWS·Jan 23Member-onlySetting Up CI/CD For SAM Application Using CodePipelineIn this post, we’ll see how we can use CodePipeline for setting up CI/CD pipeline for a SAM application. Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/implementing-safe-aws-lambda-deployments-with-aws-codedeploy/ Step 1: Create a CodeCommit repo named sam_pipeline and clone it on your local machine. Create 3 files named preTrafficHook.py, returnS3Buckets.py and template.yaml with the content given at https://github.com/vinycoolguy2015/awslambda/tree/master/aws_sam2 min read2 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Jan 19Member-onlyElastic Beanstalk Blue/Green Deployment Using Environments And CodePipeLine Custom ActionsIn this post, we’ll see how we can set up Blue/Green Deployment for Elastic Beanstalk using Environments And CodePipeLine Custom Actions. Note: We’ll be using us-west-1 region for this setup. Step 1: Refer to https://github.com/aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup and install eb cli. Step 2: Create an application named HelloWorld using following commands.Use us-west-1…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Jan 14Member-onlyMulti Region Deployment Using AWS CodePipeLineIn this post, we’ll see how we can do a multi-region deployment using CodePipeLine. Note: We’ll use us-west-1 as our primary region and us-east-2 as secondary. Step 1: In your primary region, perform Step 1 to Step 4 given in https://medium.com/@vinayakpandey-7997/integrating-custom-action-in-aws-codepipeline-using-lambda-along-with-slack-integration-b9333003c5f4 Step 2: In both the region, create a S3…AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Jan 14Member-onlyIntegrating Custom Action In AWS CodePipeLine Using Lambda Along With Slack IntegrationIn this post, we’ll see how we can integrate a custom action in our Code PipeLine using Lambda and also integrate Slack so that we can get pipeline execution messages in our Slack channel. Note: We’ll be using us-west-1 region for this setup. Step 1: Create a CodeCommit repo. Download…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Jan 6Member-onlyScaling EC2 AutoScaling Group Using SQS And Protect Instances From Termination During Scale InIn this post, we’ll see how we can scale an EC2 autoscaling group which is being used for processing SQS messages and also protect an instance from scale in operations so that it does not get terminated while processing the SQS message. Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-using-sqs-queue.html Create a target tracking scaling policy for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling using metric math Using metric math, you can query multiple CloudWatch metrics and use math expressions to create new time series based…docs.aws.amazon.comAWS6 min readAWS6 min read
