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Studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate Exam

Jan 8, 2021 amazon aws cloud

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

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: …

My Books (Boost Your IT Career!)

Aug 20, 2020 aws cisco networking

AWS 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 …

Finding Suspicious Traffic using CloudWatch Log Insights and VPC Flow Logs

Jul 28, 2019 aws cloud networking security

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

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

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

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 …

Architecting for Security on AWS

Sep 7, 2018 aws security

My latest course “Architecting for Security on AWS” is now available on Pluralsight! You’ll learn how to secure your data and AWS services using a defense-in-depth approach, including: Protecting your AWS credentials using identity and access management Capturing and analyze logs using CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and …