My Pet Projects

In this article, I will describe my current pet projects. These are mainly excuses to learn something new, or exercises to go deeper into particular technologies, but could be (I hope) useful for you too. Don’t hesitate to issue enhancements, bug fixes (PR), or just give it a try and share your thoughts. Instance Watcher :construction_worker: Tech: Lambda, Python, Serverless Application Model (SAM), SES This app will scan your AWS Account against all EC2 regions worldwide and notify you by email when you have some running EC2 instances. It’s useful for non-production environments that you need to monitor. Use case: labs/training, sandbox accounts. ...

May 30, 2019 · 3 min · 513 words · zoph

My DevOps toolbox for AWS practitioner

In this post, you will find my best tools to work with if you are playing around with AWS services. Please let us know yours in the comments below :punch: Last Update: 2019-02-14 General :construction: Description Links Use multiple AWS Accounts on the same browser using Firefox Containers Firefox Containers Facilitate your switch role experience with this AddOn FF - Extend Switch Roles - Chrome - Extend Switch Roles Easy way to know your current public ip, using AWS Service What is my Public IP Check if any website is hosted on AWS Is It on AWS? Test the reachability of EC2 worldwide EC2 Reachability A great reference for IAM, needs to be updated Cloudonaut IAM Reference AWS Transfer costs are a nightmare, this is intended to help a bit AWS Transfer Costs Want to know the current inter AWS Region latency? Inter-Region Latency THE REFERENCE (don’t forget the associate Slack) AWS Open Guide FinOps :dollar: Description Links Compare all existing EC2 instances, and pricing on a single view, with search capabilities ec2instances.info Well known AWS Calculator, a new version is coming AWS Calc Infrastructure as Code (IaC) :memo: Description Links Great post if you plan to use VSCode with CFN VSCode Linter for CFN, and really up-to-date! cfn-lint PyCharm is my preferred IDE for Terraform with this plugin Terraform Security / Governance / Hardening :flashlight: Description Links Cloud Governance, Security and compliance made easy Cloud Custodian Entirely nuke an AWS Account (warning), for example, training accounts aws-nuke Store your AWS credentials encrypted, with other cool features like login AWS-Vault Least Privileges tool from 0xdabbad00, using Athena and CloudTrail CloudTracker Map / Audit your AWS environments, and much more, Thanks again Scott CloudMapper Schema :triangular_ruler: Description Links Schema / Design your Architecture (with new AWS icons) Draw.io Same, with some advanced paid features ($) CloudCraft See ya Folks. ...

February 14, 2019 · 2 min · 312 words · zoph

From Plumber to Blogger

Previously I wrote an article on my blog’s pipeline. It was quite complex for this dead simple use case: Publish a static website from markdown files Automate build to convert markdown into html static pages using Jekyll Be able to preview articles with a draft subdomain A few months ago, during re:Invent'18, AWS launched a new service called AWS Amplify Console. I didn’t pay attention to this new service until a few days ago, when trying to find some optimizations around my blog. ...

January 29, 2019 · 2 min · 287 words · zoph

[FR] Re:Invent 2018

Retour sur une semaine incroyable et riche en annonces comme à l’accoutumée pour cette nouvelle édition du salon annuel Amazon Web Services (AWS) à Las Vegas. Dans cet article, nous allons revenir sur les principaux lancements de cette année, des plus importants aux plus inattendus. Quelques chiffres avant de commencer, AWS est un business avec un CA de 27Mds$, avec une croissance de 46-49%. Cette année, le re:Invent c’est 50 000 participants annoncés, répartis sur les 5 principaux casinos de Las Vegas. ...

December 27, 2018 · 6 min · 1223 words · zoph

AWS re:Invent'18 - re:Cap

Pre-re:Invent'18 Launches 🚀 (November 2018) AWS Region in Milan, Italy. CloudFormation Drift Detection. EC2 Auto Scaling Groups With Multiple Instance Types & Purchase Options. Train Custom Document Classifiers with Amazon Comprehend. Amazon S3 Block Public Access – Another Layer of Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets. Using AWS CodePipeline to Perform Multi-Region Deployments. AWS Resource Access Manager – Cross-Account Resource Sharing. AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open. Amazon Route 53 Resolver for Hybrid Clouds. Predictive Scaling for EC2, Powered by Machine Learning. re:Invent'18 (Nov. 26-30, 2018 - Las Vegas, NV) 🚀 = Launch ...

December 2, 2018 · 4 min · 772 words · zoph