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Strategies to Migrate into the Cloud

Formulating a strategy Many companies consider to migrate either applications or full data center infrastructures into the Cloud. There are a number of strategies which describe on how to migrate a given on-premises infrastructure into the Cloud. While those strategies may help to identify a best path for an upcoming migration it only may help …

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AWS Config to monitor compliance

AWS Config is a service which helps to keep track on resources deployed and associated along with an AWS account. It monitors on configurations based on rules, their relationships to other entities and resources and how those – if – over time. The Dashboard itself provides a timeline which represents which changes got tracked over …

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Create a Python package for Lambda

In some cases the modules available in boto3 do not provide those which might be required in a project to let Lambda act as desired. Preparing a function package Create a folder and inside the folder install the modules that will be packed. Pip is just helpful in this case. Afterwards do a recursive zip …

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AWS Access private Ec2 resources with Lambda functions

Various jobs and functions can be leveraged via AWS’ Lambda functions. That way Serverless components can be turned on. Doing so would open options to reduce a need to get Ec2 instances deployed as it would cause ongoing maintenance such like systems patching, environment configurations, monitoring etc etc. In the example outlined here there is …

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