If you are making a CloudFormation template and including an S3 bucket for logs you are probably setting a bucket policy. Here’s a hard to find problem. Let’s say you are configuring VPC flog logs and CloudTrail logs to go to the same logs bucket. Makes sense right? So to make that happen you make […]
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Mountaineer Emerging Technologies Group
I would like to invite everyone interested in emerging technologies such as AI/ML, Kubernetes and containers, cloud, NLP, and others to join the Mountaineer Emerging Technologies Group meetup. This group was created primarily for technology professionals in the northern WV area it is open to anyone. If you are interested in presenting a topic pleas get in […]
AWS Config Conformance Packs: When TRUE is not true
In this post I want to share a problem I encountered with an AWS Config Conformance Pack in hopes it can help someone else some time. The Conformance Packs are sets of AWS Config rules to help you meet compliance with various regulations. They are available on GitHub. You can clone that repository and use […]
Factory Restoring the AWS DeepRacer
In a previous post I wrote about how to do a factory restore on the AWS DeepLens camera. Today we’re going to do the AWS DeepRacer! Luckily, the process is really the same. You just want to download the DeepRacer files instead of the DeepLens files. You can get the files from the AWS guide. […]
Free AWS Office Hours
Today I am introducing AWS “Office Hours.” Looking back at the past 10 years there have been lots of people who had an impact on me. Some of them probably have no idea but I don’t think I would have the experience today if it weren’t for their help and assistance over the years. Finding […]
Terraform or CloudFormation?
After the recent HashiTalks 2021 event it brought up an old debate in my mind and often in the minds of companies I work with. When to use Terraform and when to use CloudFormation? (You can read about my HashiTalks 2021 presentation.) As someone who has nearly lived exclusively in the AWS universe for the […]
HashiTalks 2021
For HashiTalks 2021 I was able to present a Terraform project that managed the training and serving of NLP models. Built in AWS and using ECS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, and EventBridge, the project provides a way to do automated containerized NLP model training. You can queue a model for training by describing the model […]
Preparing for AWS Certifications
Currently I have 11 AWS certifications. I took my first AWS certification exam back in 2014. Since then I’ve re-certified and taken well more exams than the 11 certifications shows. I get asked a lot how do you prepare for the exams? What study materials do you use? So I thought I’d try to share […]
So long, Elasticsearch
The open source community has been rocked by a couple of big changes recently. One of those events was when MongoDB announced a change to their licensing. Initially released under the AGPL, MongoDB changed to their own Server Side License. Why? Because MongoDB was being sold as a product by some cloud providers without contributing […]
AWS DeepLens Factory Restore
When getting started with an AWS DeepLens camera it can be helpful to restore the camera to its factory settings, especially if you get a second hand one. Luckily, this is a pretty easy thing to do. The instructions are documented by AWS at Restoring Your AWS DeepLens Device to Factory Settings. I will walk […]