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 …
Read MoreWhether 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: …
Read MoreWhether 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: …
Read MoreAWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate SAA-C02 Exam 3nd Edition AWS Certified Solutions Study Guide: Associate (SAA-C02) Exam, Third Edition comprehensively and efficiently prepares you for the SAA-C02 Exam. The study guide contains robust and effective study tools that will help you succeed on the …
Read MoreWhile 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 …
Read MorePeople 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 …
Read MoreAfter 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 …
Read MoreIf 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 …
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