Lot’s of people want’s to keep track of EC2 instance changes, so here’s a simple script that does it very nicely and write all changes to Syslog. ec2-instances-tracker ===================== A script that monitors EC2 instances changes and write the chnages to Syslog Usage: ./ec2-instances-tracker.sh -O <aws-key> -W <aws-secret> [-r all|<region-url>]” Output: ec2-instances-tracker: Region=ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com Conf=current InstanceID=i-8ac90bc7 …
Dear customers and partners, We want to let you know of the new data center in Sydney Australia, launched by Amazon Cloud. Starting today, customers can run their applications and workloads in the new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region to reduce latency to end-users based in Australia and New Zealand while avoiding the up-front expenses, long-term …
Tech-Update Dear customers & Partners, In the coming days the RDS Security Groups will be migrated to VPC Security groups – thank you AWS team for consolidating the security groups to one place. (relevant customers will get direct mail from AWS) Once the consolidation process is complete, you will see the following changes: – Your previously created DB Security Groups …
Hello All, Following my presentation on the CloudCon, I’m sharing my presentation with you. Ultra secure cloud data center on aws from Lahav Savir
Disaster Recovery site Over Night, yes it happened! I want to share with you our last week experience at Emind. We are all aware of the damages that were created by Hurricane Sandy’s storm, most if not all New York and New Jersey data centers were impacted. Some of them were down, some of them …
The following is our quick spec for deploying an Ultra Secure Cloud Deployment based on AWS VPC What should be considered Isolated and controlled network Firewalled Secure access VPN SSL Intrusion detection Antivirus Audited User management One time password One spot got monitoring Alerts and notifications Aggregated security information VPN access logs Traffic audit logs Network …
The following is a quick checklist for who ever may think about setting up a Cloud Data Center Servers Operating System Instance Types (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) Storage per server Disk arrays Applications and services (IIS, MSSQL, Nginx, Tomcat, Apache, PHP, Ruby, RabbitMQ, etc) OS configuration (hardening, etc) Security Firewall rules per server (group of servers) Data Encryption Domain …
Were you thinking about documenting your AWS deployment or future data center ? if so you probably looked for AWS Visio stencils & icons http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/