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Author: Melina Schweizer
Melina Schweizer is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect Builder at AWS. She works on creating simple and effective solutions to facilitate business outcomes for customers. In her spare time, Melina enjoys playing the piano, gardening, and vacationing with her family.
Use the power of script steps in your Systems Manager Automation runbooks
Customers have been using AWS Systems Manager Automation documents for years to define to define a sequence of actions to take on their AWS infrastructure such as invoking an AWS Lambda function or copying an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). These documents, now referred to as runbooks, are simple to use, yet powerful. The aws:executeScript action […]
Use Systems Manager Automation documents to manage instances and cut costs off-hours
Cut costs by minimizing infrastructure when it’s not under heavy use, for example turning off EC2 and RDS instances nights and weekends. In this post you will learn how to do this using Systems Manager Automation Documents, State Manager, and CloudWatch Events.
Managing aged access keys through AWS Config remediations
One of the security best practices that is time-consuming to manage is enforcing IAM access key rotation for IAM users. Access keys give IAM users the ability to connect to Amazon EC2 instances. Therefore rotating these regularly (for example, every 90 days) is one of the key steps in protecting your resources from unauthorized access. […]