On Feb 13, 2017, Amazon Web Services announced elastic EBS volumes! If you have used EC2 much you have undoubtedly been frustrated by the rigidness of EBS volumes. Once created they could not be modified or resized. If your EC2 instance required more disk space your only option was to manually create a new volume of […]
There is a new project on GitHub that is an EC2 metadata simulator. The project allows for testing applications that depend on EC2 instance metadata in non-AWS environments. It doesn’t (yet) provide complete simulation of all EC2 metadata endpoints but in time it will and in the mean time it should be simple enough to […]
In an exciting update from AWS, it was announced that CloudFormation now supports YAML in addition to JSON. I think most of us will agree this is great. The JSON templates worked, but whew, were they hard to read and the lack of the ability to add comments sometimes made my templates look more like sudokus […]