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Demystifying Amazon Aurora Architecture

Welcome to an in-depth exploration of Amazon Aurora, a revolutionary cloud database service. While the service shares some similarities with traditional RDS offerings, it brings a host of features to the table that set it apart. Designed as a fully managed relational database engine, Aurora is compatible with both Postgres...

Configuring ECR Account Replication

The replication of Container images between AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry) accounts provides significant advantages, including disaster recovery and easier multi-account management. Amazon ECR supports both cross-Region and cross-account replication. This advanced guide explains the step-by-step procedure for configuring AWS ECR replication between multiple accounts. Pre-requisites Considerations Before Proceeding Steps...

Transitioning from Datastore to Firestore

Google Cloud Datastore has long been a reliable database platform, accessible directly from applications through API calls. However, Google is gradually phasing out Cloud Datastore in favor of its next-generation counterpart, Google Cloud Firestore. This article aims to guide you through each service’s key differences, advantages, and limitations to help...

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Update (Rotate) RDS SSL Certificates

SSL/TLS Certificate Rotation Guide for Amazon RDS Amazon RDS CA certificates rds-ca-2019 are expiring soon. To maintain secure connections, switch to new CA certificates: rds-ca-rsa2048-g1, rds-ca-rsa4096-g1, or rds-ca-ecc384-g1. This guide outlines the steps to update your clients or applications and RDS certificates. Amazon RDS provides the following CAs to sign...

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Configure RDS Alerts Event Subscription AWS

This procedure will walk through how to Configure RDS Alerts in AWS using Event Subscriptions. Setting up event notifications in Amazon RDS using Amazon SNS topics, streaming data to Amazon Kinesis, and then forwarding those notifications to Slack. To Configure RDS Alerts requires a multi-step process. Here’s a detailed step-by-step...

SSH AWS ECS Container

SSH AWS ECS Container: How to SSH onto an ECS Instance Connections to an ECS container are done using AWS ECS Execute. SSH AWS ECS Container provides a secure alternative to SSH, which works using IAM functionality from AWS. Before you begin, you must ensure that: Here is a detailed...

Azure AD to Entra Verified ID?

Microsoft has done it again; first, they renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365, and now they have renamed Azure AD to Entra Verified ID. Hey there, identity management enthusiasts!👋 Guess what? Microsoft just sprinkled some rebranding magic on our beloved Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)! Say hello to its new...

AWS-CDK App Hierarchy

AWS-CDK App Hierarchy and Key Concepts

1. AWS CDK App Definition: AWS-CDK App hierarchy is the starting point for defining cloud resources using AWS CDK. This application is a project written in one of the supported languages, such as TypeScript or Python, and uses the AWS CDK library to describe the desired AWS infrastructure. Example: Let’s...

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AWS-CDK Common Mistakes

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a framework for defining cloud resources in code and provisioning them through AWS CloudFormation. While it simplifies many aspects of defining cloud resources, there are still potential pitfalls or AWS-CDK Common Mistakes that users might encounter. Here are some of the common...