I just published a video to YouTube showing how to use Amazon Rekognition with .NET 5 applications. Link to the recording

I had the privilege of working with four talented interns, Anjan Amarnath, Aravind Ramalingam, Chihao Sun, and Hongyi Li this summer to build a workshop on .NET Modernization. In this workshop, you will migrate a monolithic .NET framework application to a microservices-based .NET Core application on AWS by applying the Strangler Fig Pattern. After completing this workshop, you will have the skills to feel more comfortable modernizing your legacy .

I have been helping test the new capability to Seamlessly join a Linux EC2 instance to your AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory. The domain join service account will get locked out after a 45 days unless you change the password. Therefore, I created a Lambda function to rotate secrets for the Directory Service. Here is an example template that uses the template.

The completely revised and expanded Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads on Amazon Web Services. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of dollars, can be completed in minutes for a fraction of a penny.

I wrote this blog post explaining how to integrate AppStream with an LMS.

PyLTI is a Python implementation of the LTI specification. I added support for AWS Chalice.

I published Hosting Moodle on AWS consisting of a set of nested templates which deploy a highly available, elastic, and scalable Moodle environment on AWS.

I published AppStream Plugin for Moodle. The plugin allows a teacher to assign a virtual lab (e.g. R-Studio) to a student in Moodle. When the student clicks the assignment in their course, the plugin launches an AppStream instance.

While I did not author this blog post, I did help Clemson prepare and execute this massive job on AWS.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/disabling-intel-hyper-threading-technology-on-amazon-ec2-windows-instances/

I co-authored a blog post on NITS 800-171 along with Brad Dispensa.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/multi-account-strategy-using-aws-cloudformation-custom-resources-to-create-amazon-route-53-resources-in-another-account/

I helped author this blog post and helped a student at UGA develop and deploy this serverless application that costs just a few cents a month to run.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/disabling-intel-hyper-threading-technology-on-amazon-linux/

As people across the Northeastern United States are stocking up their pantries and preparing their disaster supplies kits, AWS is also preparing for winter snow storms and the subsequent hurricane season. After fielding several customer requests for information about our preparation regime, my colleagues Brian Beach and Ilya Epshteyn wrote the following guest post in order to share some additional information. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ready-to-weather-the-storm/

Are you hosting an ASP.NET application on AWS? Do you want the benefits of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Auto Scaling, but feel limited by a dependency on ASP.NET session state? Rather than rely on sticky sessions, you can use an out-of-process session state provider to share session state between multiple web servers. In this post, I will show you how to configure ElastiCache and the RedisSessionStateProvider from Microsoft to eliminate the dependency on sticky sessions.

In this article, we will set up an example situation showing how to use the open source Squid proxy to control access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) from within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). First, you will configure Squid to allow access to Linux Yum repositories. Next, you will configure Squid to restrict access to a list of approved Amazon S3 buckets. Then, you will configure Squid to direct traffic based on the URL, sending some requests to an Internet gateway (IGW) and other traffic to a virtual private gateway (VGW).

As a company’s adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) grows, most customers adopt a multi-account strategy. Some customers choose to create an account for each application, while others create an account for each business unit or environment (development, testing, production). Whatever the strategy, there is often a use case that requires access to multiple accounts at once. This post examines cross-account access and the AssumeRole API, known as Use-STSRole in Windows PowerShell.

I wrote this help article for the AWS documentation after getting a question from a customer.

TechTarget While there are similarities, security groups are more capable than a traditional firewall. This tip compares security groups to a traditional firewall and describes best practices for developing a security group policy. https://searchaws.techtarget.com/tip/Best-practices-for-developing-a-security-group-policy

TechTarget This tip reviews authentication options on AWS and best practices for using them to ensure accounts and information are well protected. https://searchaws.techtarget.com/tip/Best-practices-for-authentication-options-on-AWS

TechTarget Tips to protect your access keys from hackers lurking on GitHub and similar sites. https://searchaws.techtarget.com/tip/Best-practices-for-protecting-AWS-access-keys

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