aws | Ben Piper

Books

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Here are the books I've authored or co-authored. Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam Set yourself apart by becoming an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. Click the book to view on Amazon. For errata, click here. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate …

My Technology Training Courses

Feb 27, 2021 aws cisco ccnp ccna encor enarsi networking security windows

Here you'll find a list of my IT training courses. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Architecting for Operational Excellence on AWS Architecting for Reliability on AWS Architecting for Security on AWS AWS Networking Deep Dive: Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) AWS Networking Deep Dive: Route 53 DNS AWS Networking Deep Dive: Virtual …

Studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate Exam

Jan 8, 2021 amazon aws cloud security 2021

Whether you prefer to read or watch a video, here are some AWS certification training resources I've put together for you. Study Guides The following study guides include hundreds of assessment questions and answers as well as online access to graded practice exams. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: …

Studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate Exam

May 1, 2019 Aug 21, 2020 amazon aws cloud 2019

Whether you prefer to read or watch a video, here are some AWS certification training resources I've put together for you. Study Guides The following study guides include hundreds of assessment questions and answers as well as online access to graded practice exams. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: …

Finding Suspicious Traffic using CloudWatch Log Insights and VPC Flow Logs

Jul 28, 2019 aws cloud networking security 2019

While playing around with AWS CloudWatch Log Insights to analyze VPC flow logs, I thought of a couple of fun ways to identify (probably) malicious traffic. Finding Vulnerability Scanners These are the guys that hammer your box looking for anything from silly SQL injection attacks (so 2005) to CSRF vulnerabilities. The …

Operational Excellence Means Automation

Apr 2, 2019 automation aws cloudformation devops infrastructure-as-code operational-excellence 2019

People use the term “operational excellence” in a lot of different ways. In its vaguest sense, it means continuous improvement as applied to operations. But you’re interested in what it means in the context of technology operations. And I’m here to tell you that it means automation. Operational Excellence is one of the …

Using AWS Systems Manager to Upgrade WordPress

Mar 19, 2019 automation aws devops wordpress 2019

After years of manually upgrading my self-hosted WordPress installation, I decided it was finally time to apply some devops principles (namely automation) to this process. I decided to use AWS Systems Manager (aka SSM). I started out by creating the following Command Document (which happens to be in YAML format because …

Route 53’s Name Servers are Sending a Secret Message

Mar 14, 2019 dns aws 2019

If you’ve ever created a private hosted zone in Route 53, you may have noticed it always assigns the same name servers: 1 ns-1536.awsdns-00.co.uk. 2 ns-0.awsdns-00.com. 3 ns-1024.awsdns-00.org. 4 ns-512.awsdns-00.net. The numbers don’t seem to be coincidental. 1536 is the RFC number for “Common DNS Implementation …