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Installing the New AWS Command Line Tool: awscli 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
consistent control over more AWS services with awscli, a single, powerful command line tool from Amazon Readers of this tech blog know that I am a fan of the power of the command line. I enjoy presen...
Using An AWS CloudFormation Stack To Allow "-" Instead Of "+" In Gmail Email Addresses 22 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
Launch a CloudFormation template to set up a stack of AWS resources to fill a simple need: Supporting Gmail addresses with “-” instead of “+” separating the user name from the arbitrary tag strings. ...
New Options In ec2-expire-snapshots v0.11 18 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
The ec2-expire-snapshots program can be used to expire EBS snapshots in Amazon EC2 on a regular schedule that you define. It can be used as a companion to ec2-consistent-snapshot or independently. Th...
Replacing a CloudFront Distribution to "Invalidate" All Objects 27 Mar 2013 | 05:24 am
I was chatting with Kevin Boyd (aka Beryllium) on the ##aws Freenode IRC channel about the challenge of invalidating a large number of CloudFront objects (35,000) due to a problem where the cached cop...
Email Alerts for AWS Billing Alarms 15 Jan 2013 | 09:00 pm
using CloudWatch and SNS to send yourself email messages when AWS costs accrue past limits you define The Amazon documentation describes how to use the AWS console to monitor your estimated charges us...
Cost of Transitioning S3 Objects to Glacier 17 Dec 2012 | 07:00 pm
how I was surprised by a large AWS charge and how to calculate the break-even point Glacier Archival of S3 Objects Amazon recently introduced a fantastic new feature where S3 objects can be automatica...
Running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 in Sydney, Australia 13 Nov 2012 | 07:30 am
Amazon has announced a new AWS region in Sydney, Australia with the name ap-southeast-2. The official Ubuntu AMI lookup pages (1, 2) don’t seem to be showing the new location yet, but the official Ubu...
Save Money by Giving Away Unused Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances 15 Sep 2012 | 12:30 am
You may be able to save on future EC2 expenses by selling an unused Reserved Instance for less than its true value or even $0.01, provided it is in the “Heavy Utilization” class. In the description of...
Installing AWS Command Line Tools from Amazon Downloads 4 Sep 2012 | 07:00 pm
When you need an AWS command line toolset not provided by Ubuntu packages, you can download the tools directly from Amazon and install them locally. In a previous article I provided instructions on ho...
Convert Running EC2 Instance to EBS-Optimized Instance with Provisioned IOPS EBS Volumes 2 Aug 2012 | 03:48 pm
Amazon just announced two related features for getting super-fast, consistent performance with EBS volumes: (1) Provisioned IOPS EBS volumes, and (2) EBS-Optimized Instances. Starting new instances an...
