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`Cloud Engineer with his head in the AWS clouds, authored chapters in the PowerShell Conference Book 1 & 2 and currently learning and enjoying Go

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  1. Go vs. PowerShell, Python, and JavaScript for DevOps

    In this article, I outline why I chose the Go programming language over PowerShell, Python, and JavaScript for my DevOps projects. In the current world of IT, DevOps engineers are in high demand. A skilled DevOps engineer requires skills in delivering applications and infrastructure rapidly into a production environment. Knowledge of a coding language is...…

    • Tags: AWS Go Golang • 1 min read

  2. IAM Security Token Service (STS): Temporary security credentials in AWS

    We will be exploring the AWS Security Token Service (STS) to work with temporary security credentials. We will look at how they are set up and used, and then go through an example to put it all together. In short, STS enables flexibility that provides granular control of more than one AWS service for a...…

    • Tags: AWS IAM STS • 1 min read

  3. Encrypt in AWS using the Key Management Service (KMS)

    The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) allows you to create and manage cryptographic keys that you can use across a wide range of services in Amazon’s cloud and your applications. We will walk through an example of encrypting your files in S3 by using KMS. How secure are KMS keys? AWS KMS is a fully...…

    • Tags: AWS KMS • 1 min read

  4. AWS daily spend CloudWatch notification alert

    In this post we will look at the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) UI designs for CloudWatch and also schedule a daily billing check to give alerts on overspending. We have to use a Lambda function for this purpose because CloudWatch does not offer daily spending alerts. CloudWatch new UI AWS will shortly launch its...…

    • Tags: AWS CloudWatch Python • 1 min read

  5. The AWS CDK using C#

    If you want to automate the provisioning of your infrastructure in AWS you would use CloudFormation. You can code some or even all your infrastructure with the use of the CloudFormation template language, which is written in YAML or JSON. JSON and more so YAML are very human-readable, providing a way to document your Infrastructure...…

    • Tags: AWS C# • 4 min read