Designing and Deploying an AWS Account Factory - AWS customers start off with one AWS account, but quickly realize the benefits of having multiple AWS accounts. A common learning curve for customers …

Cloud Computing Course - I’ll be presenting in two of Dr. Patrick Dreher’s Cloud Computing courses at NC State today.

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 …