> Paying for idle is so 2015 I had some Lambda Functions that scraped data from the Internet, and stored them in a database. Locking-down the RDS Security Group to only Lambda Functions turned out to be more complicated than
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Visualising EC2 Security Groups
Here's my first attempt at visualising AWS EC2 Security Groups in something other than a boring table: You can mouse over a SG name to see it's inbound (green) and outbound (red) connections to other groups/
Using Apex v0.5.0 to manage Lambda functions
I had read about Apex [https://github.com/apex/apex] and knew I wanted to try it out. The new announcement about v0.5.0 [https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/apex-v0-5-0-85b006f75b68#.z1rzocnsb] gave me the motivation to do it. The newly
Scheduling Lambda Functions with CloudWatch Events using the AWS CLI
While it was really cool when AWS Lambda scheduled functions [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-python-vpc-increased-function-duration-scheduling-and-more/] were announced, it was a bit of a let-down to find out they could only be done via the web console. The benefit
How to get your AWS SysOps Associate Certification
I've seen a lot of questions about how to best approach the various AWS certifications [https://aws.amazon.com/certification/] while hanging out on r/aws [https://www.reddit.com/r/aws]. Since I recently got my SysOps