Air-Gapped Packer Builds
Using Packer to make AMIs in an air-gapped or firewalled environment
Topic
aws
7 field notes tagged “aws”.
Machine Images and /etc/machine-id
Ensuring you get a unique machine-id when making custom machine images (AMIs)
Cloudwatch-collectd Integration
Use collectd to push metrics into Cloudwatch for easy custom metrics on EC2 instances and inside containers
Cloud Resource Deprecation Risks
Cloud providers sometimes withdraw resources they have provided. What do you do then?
AWS iam:PassRole Security and Compliance
Using AWS iam:PassRole without creating too many problems
Cloud Control Plane Users
Who should get access to your cloud "control plane"? A tricky question with some equally tricky answers.
Cloud Availability Zones: 3 is the Magic Number
A common misconception is that you only need 2 AZs in the cloud...