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Category: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Step-by-step AWS guides covering EC2, RDS, CDK, ECS, S3, and more. Practical tutorials for building and managing AWS infrastructure.
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Move Terraform State Between AWS Accounts (Step-by-Step Guide): Complete Guide
If you need the general background on Terraform state, start with Terraform State Explained: Remote State, Locking, Backends and Best Practices. This page is intentionally narrower: it focuses… Read the guide
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Terraform Plan Output to File: Use -out Safely
Save Terraform plan output to a file, review it with terraform show, apply the exact saved plan, and handle .tfplan files as sensitive artifacts. Read the guide
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Terraform Migrate From Template_file Data Sources: Complete Guide
I stumbled across this problem when using a new MacBook Pro M1 CPU. I had some legacy code that used aws_template for a user data script. The template… Read the guide
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Steampipe AWS One-Liners: Useful Commands and Examples
Here are some useful Steampipe queries for AWS Need to know how to install Steampipe – see my blog post here. Turbot’s Steampipe AWS tools are great for… Read the guide
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How to Deploy the Latest AMI Every Time
One of the more common tasks you will be asked to do as an AWS administrator is to build an instance, but you want to have the very… Read the guide
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How to Install and Use the Alation Data Catalog
The Alation data catalog tool is used to search, query, and collaborate on large data sets, using machine learning to gain insights incredibly quickly. In my environment, I… Read the guide
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How to Access Amazon Workspaces
Amazon Workspaces is essentially a jump box that sits inside AWS and has access to all your AWS resources. It can be a Linux or Windows Desktop. (Simply… Read the guide
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AWS-Vault Setup and IAM Identity Center Context
Use AWS-Vault safely for legacy IAM-user bootstrap keys, compare it with IAM Identity Center, and test short-lived AWS CLI sessions. Read the guide
