IOT Workshop - I’ll be presenting a IOT Workshop at NC State’s Hill library today. You can see details here.

Cloud Storage - I’ll be presenting in Dr. Amy Apon’s Cloud Computing courses at Clemson today.

Cloud is the New Normal - I’ll be in Montreal Canada today presenting at Champlain College. You can see details here.

I have been working with Worker Environments in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I found all the timeouts confusing at first, so I share my findings here. The instances in your Worker Environment have a demon …

Introduction to Research in the Cloud - I’ll be presenting to researchers at NC State’s Hill library today. You can see details here.

The Innovative Minds of Amazon come to KU - I’ll be presenting on Cloud Computing at Kutztown University tonight. You can see details here.

Early in my career, I learned an important lesson: backup is easy, but restore is hard. Too often we take our backup and recovery for granted. We assume that if the backup completed successful, the …

Big Data and Analytics - I’ll be doing a guest lecture on Big Data and Analtics in two of Seyed Emadi’s classes today at UNC Business School.

Automating Windows Workloads on AWS with PowerShell - I’ll be in Florida tonight presenting at Jacksonville AWS Meetup. You can see details here.

AWS for Higher Education - I’ll be in Florida today presenting at IT Palooza. You can see details here.

I could not find a simple example to send email using SES in Python. Turns out it is really easy. If you have a MIME formatted message you can simply call send_raw_message. 1 2 client = …

It is common for an AWS customer to have many accounts.  Often a central IT team will own the payer account and have oversight over all accounts. The IT team will create a linked account for …

Introduction to AWS Lambda - I’ll be presenting on Lmanbda at the Triangle AWS Meetup this afternoon. You can see details here

I added a new Cloud Watch Logs Trace Listener to the .Net API for AWS. The API team plans to add support for Log4Net, but in the meantime I have been using this. …

Amazon Web Services for Linux Engineers - I’ll be presenting at the TriLUG meeting this evening. You can find details here.

With all the devices in the house it was finally time to invest in a NAS. I settled on the Western Digital My Cloud EX2. I picked this specifically because it supported back up to Amazon S3. In …

I'll be presenting on AWS Powershell tonight at the NYC PowerShell User Group.

I have been wanting to configure a VPN Connection from AWS to my house, but my cheap Netgear router does not support IPSec. So, I picked up an old Cisco 871 router that does. I didn’t want to …

Windows Server 2003 end of life is less than six months away. As I start to think about upgrading, I was looking for an easy way to identify what version of Windows is running on each EC2 instance. …

Cloud-Init is a set of Python scripts used to configure Linux instances when they boot in AWS. Cloud-Init is included on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux AMIs. You can think of a Cloud Init script as a …

In my last post I used the awslogs daemon to push tcpdump events to AWS CloudWatch logs.  At the time it felt silly to use a file on disk and a daemon to push events from an interactive session. …

I was recently debugging an issue with a fleet of Apache web servers.  I needed to watch for some low level network events we felt might be causing an issue (TCP resets, etc.).  I thought …

In the last two posts (part 1, part 2) in this series we used PowerShell to gleam information from our monthly AWS billing report.  While you can use those scripts to learn a great amount of …

It took 6 months but I finally got time to continue the series on Decoding Your AWS bill.  In the last post, we used PowerShell to download and query the monthly bill.  In this post we use …