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Disclaimer: This article was written with my co-author: Sandro aka Khrarec. thx dude. Introduction With the rise of cloud managed services comes a very important one: the databases. So, what’s a managed database service? Basically, a database is a server-side software like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or for NoSQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc. But when you install and build your database server that way, it means you have to manage the configuration, which is sometimes very tricky. You might make some mistakes that can kill performance. ...

re:Inforce 2019 Il s’agit de la première édition de cette conférence AWS dédiée à la sécurité de ce Cloud Service Provider (CSP). AWS est actuellement en train de proposer de nouveaux événements et summits sur des sujets spécifiques, en plus de l’événement annuel, le re:Invent. Cette conférence aura lieu chaque année dans une ville différente des États-Unis, il est question de Houston pour l’année prochaine. https://reinforce.awsevents.com/ J’ai eu l’occasion de participer au re:Cap du re:Inforce proposé par AWS France, voici en synthèse, les éléments à ne pas manquer. ...

Info: This is our first post in a series of co-authored articles with @kharec. Serverless SFTP with AWS Transfer for SFTP Sometimes in the web world, we need to quickly deploy a space to share data with programs or with other humans. One of the numerous solutions is an SFTP space out there. But you know: create the server, configure the service, partition the users, the permissions, the folders, etc. It gets heavy faster than a speeding bullet! ...

Following the announced new opt-in option regarding the default encryption of EBS volumes a few days ago, I’ve made a small Python script to enable this feature on all AWS regions within an AWS account. Quick and Dirty Simple. This is an example. Use it at your own risk, and test it before applying to production, as usual :) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 import boto3 AWS_REGION = 'eu-west-1' session = boto3.Session(region_name=AWS_REGION) ec2 = session.client('ec2') def main(event, context): ec2_regions = [region['RegionName'] for region in ec2.describe_regions()['Regions']] # For all AWS Regions for region in ec2_regions: conn = boto3.client('ec2', region_name=region) print ("Checking AWS Region: " + region) status = conn.get_ebs_encryption_by_default() print ("===="*10) result = status["EbsEncryptionByDefault"] if result == True: print ("Activated, nothing to do") else: print("Not activated, activation in progress") conn.enable_ebs_encryption_by_default() if __name__ == '__main__': main(0,0) That’s all folks! ...

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. ...