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Category: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Step-by-step AWS guides covering EC2, RDS, CDK, ECS, S3, and more. Follow practical examples, tested steps and reliable troubleshooting advice.
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AWS Security: Core Services and Best Practices
AWS Security refers to the tools, services, and shared-responsibility model Amazon Web Services uses to protect cloud workloads. AWS secures the underlying cloud infrastructure, while customers are responsible… Read the guide
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How to Update Steampipe: Step-by-Step Guide
Steampipe, from Turbot, has rapidly gained recognition as an exceptional SQL-based query tool that facilitates seamless interactions with multiple cloud providers. Its versatility and robustness make it an… Read the guide
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How to Take an EC2 Snapshot in AWS
Reliable data management in AWS starts with a clear understanding of EBS snapshots. Whether you are running a single web server or a distributed database, losing data is… Read the guide
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Top 3 Terraform Best Practices
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code tool created by HashiCorp. Terraform can manage your AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud resources. In addition, terraform can create, manage,… Read the guide
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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