Moving to the cloud has become a big part of business strategy for many organizations. As the pace of cloud adoption increases, keeping track of cloud costs has become a top concern for leaders and financial teams. This is where FinOps, or cloud financial management, comes into play. At the heart of FinOps is the… Read More »
Amazon EBS Adds Support for Tagging EBS Snapshots Upon Creation and Resource-Level Permissions See the announcement here
In a previous post I experimented with serverless monitoring of my websites. I was wondering if I could extend the monitoring functions to gather rudimentary data on the time it takes to load the site. I decided to modify the Lambda function I used earlier to calculate the time it took for the function to… Read More »
I run a couple of websites for personal use, Nextcloud (an open source Dropbox alternative) and this WordPress site for personal use using a single EC2 instance. As this architecture is susceptible to a host of problems due to a lack of redundancy, I needed a way to keep an eye on site availability and get… Read More »
If you have a database on an EC2 instance, the question that comes up frequently is “how do I backup my database and where?”. The easiest option is to backup to Amazon’s S3 storage. This post shows you how to achive an automated database backup to S3 using a simple shell scripts that can be… Read More »