aws How to analyze your CloudFront access logs When I enabled logging for my client's CloudFront distribution I thought it would be a piece of cake to find a tool that would download, parse and summarize the request logs in some nice report. I know that wasn't the case three years ago,
ec2 Add your IP address to an EC2 security group from command line If you have an EC2 instance, for example a jump station, with restricted SSH access for only known IP addresses, then you most likely want a fast and smooth way of adding your new IP address to the security group when connected with a
rds Setting up replication from RDS to external MySQL At first, when I set out to set up the replication between MySQL on Amazon Web Services RDS to external MySQL, I found a few comments that it cannot be done or shouldn't be done, because it's not supported by Amazon. In any case,
aws Installing a Let's Encrypt certificate on an Elastic Load Balancer Have you heard about the new and totally free Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt? If you are using an AWS region where Certificate Manager is supported, then you should probably use that instead. If not, you might be interested in using Let's Encrypt to get
beanstalk Hosting a Ghost blog on AWS Beanstalk with Docker A few weeks ago I decided to use Ghost for my blog. Ghost is Open Source and free to download. But where should you host it? Ghost.org offers hosting from $19/month. You can see what you get compared to when you choose
beanstalk Connect to docker daemon on an AWS Beanstalk EC2 instance If you encounter some problem when you're setting up a new Beanstalk Docker app, the first thing to do is to download and take a look at the log files. But what if you still can't figure out what's wrong? Or what if you