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AWS Management & Monitoring
When first setting up my AWS account, it was stressed on the importance of creating a Budget alarm, and also alerts (usually receveiving an SNS or email) for when budget or other resource limits were passed. So, my understanding of CloudTrail and CloudWatch has been very limited, but as I have begun to learn about…
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Exploring EBS
In this exercise, I want to gain additional experience working with Elastic Block Storage – one of three types of storage that AWS offers (the othes include Block and EFS/FSx file storage). I’m going to be creating an EBS volume and then then working with it. Let’s take a look: I have a t3.micro EC2…
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Exploring Amazon Bedrock
Last week, I successfully obtained the AWS AI Practitioner certification- wooohoo! Preparing for that exam helped me to better understand this new arena of technology. In this post, I’m going to pivot to getting hands-on experience with Bedrock and a variety of other tools. Let’s jump to it! First, in Amazon Bedrock, I needed to…
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AWS Architecting MySQL and Workbench
In this exercise, I’m going to pull together a number of different threads – namely, the design and implementation of the infrastructure to spin up an EC2 instance (hosting Workbench, which will allow me to interact with a database) and an RDS MySQL instance. My objective is to be able to create a database and…
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EC2 Instance Monitoring
I’ve gotten to the point where spinning up an EC2 instance feels pretty comfortable, and it’s pretty easy to scale out to include additional instances as needed. Amidst that robust ability to create more and more, however, it’s important to be able to look at the performance of each instance – because these are finite…
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Security w/ AWS Network Firewall
I’ve been focused a lot in security prevention approaches, such as subnetting, security group configuration, IAM policies, and so forth. I also want to touch upon AWS detection services, too. Specifically, the AWS Network Firewall. I have an t2.micro EC2 instance running in us-west-2a Availability Zone. It has a private IPv4 address but no public…
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IAM deep-dive
When I first created my AWS account, I created an IAM user account and attached an administrative-permissions policy to it. Thereafter, I signed into my account using that user and authentication, because the root user has super-powerful system powers which is dangerous and (most of the time) unnecessary. In a different exercise, IAM policies have…
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Data Protection w/ Encryption (KMS)
One of the critical components of ensuring that data remains confidential, and other critical aspects such as nonrepudiation and authentication, is through the use of encryption methodologies. In this post, I’m going to walk through configuring AWS Encryption using the CLI, creating an encryption key using KMS (which will be used to encrypt and decrypt…
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Data Security
Part of my interest with cybersecurity stemmed from experiencing data loss and identity theft from people I know (and, to some extent, myself as well). Keeping data is vitally important, whether it’s due to compliance and regulatory mandates (such as HIPAA), or just keeping PII safe, it’s a crucial area for working with information systems.…
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