Category: Amazon EC2

In this post, AWS and Ziff Davis collaborated to tackle server management challenges by implementing an automated solution using EC2 Image Builder and AWS Systems Manager. The solution addressed issues of inconsistent configurations, undocumented processes, and manual patching, resulting in improved efficiency, consistency, and disaster recovery capabilities for Ziff Davis’s virtual phone number services.

Learn how to use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to automate and simplify data protection without duplicating existing backups on Amazon EBS, a high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Learn how to use Amazon EKS Blueprints for CDK to simplify integration of common tooling and provisioning of complete, opinionated EKS clusters that meet specific application requirements. This solution is designed to replace the deprecated Amazon EKS Quick Start.

One way to alleviate the pain of drift in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads is to use a GitOps workflow to automate Amazon Machine Image (AMI) builds with AWS CodePipeline. In this post, we show you how to deploy a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, managed by CodePipeline, to build AMIs.

Are your infrastructure as code (IaC) Terraform deployments on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud protected against drift? IaC drift, which can leave your data and resources exposed to security risks, is especially difficult to track down and remove in an environment that spans multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions. You can do it though, and in this post we show you how.

Learn how to use an Amazon CloudWatch agent to automate the collection of custom metrics for two Amazon EC2 instances. The solution is based on a tagging strategy combined with AWS Systems Manager State Manager to enforce specific CloudWatch agent configurations for EC2 instances that are tagged appropriately.

Use a distributed Microsoft Active Directory to authenticate workloads on AWS.

Learn how to automate Ansible playbook deployment with Amazon EC2 and GitHub either by using an AWS CloudFormation template or by following a step-by-step setup.

Learn how to create an AWS CloudFormation template that runs code prior to terminating an EC2 Auto Scaling instance.

Learn how to securely access Amazon S3 during bootstrapping by using S3-authenticated objects.