> 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
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