How to Setup Budget in AWS to Keep your Bill in Check Dear Reader, I hope you are doing great. Today, I am here to show you, how you can set up a budget in AWS so that you can keep your account billing in check. To be honest, AWS Read More
How to Assign Elastic IP address to your EC2 Instance in AWS Dear Reader, hope you are doing great today. In this blog post you are going to learn about elastic IP and how you can assign an elastic IP to your EC2 Instance. One of the biggest benefits of Read More
Dear Reader, hope you are doing great today :). In this post, I will help you create IAM role using CloudFormation. While creating the role using CloudFormation we will learn various ways a policy can be attached to an IAM Role. In case you have just started with AWS, below is Read More
How to use EC2 User Data Script to Install Apache Web Server Dear Reader, I hope you are doing good. In one of my previous post, I explained how you can install apache web server in a EC2 instance. For learning purpose that’s good. However, usually you would like your Read More
How to Provide Billing Access to an IAM User Have you ever tried to check your AWS account spent, being an IAM admin user and was greeted with cryptic access denied message instead? Well, I am sure, you must have 🙂 But, what If I tell you that, this is Read More
How to Enable MFA On Your Amazon AWS Root Account As you might already know, your Root account has full access to all the services in AWS. There is no way to limit this permission. Having said that, imagine if someone(hacker) gets hold of your root account !!! What do Read More
Error Message : Property AssumeRolePolicyDocument cannot be empty Problem: When you try to create an IAM role using AWS::IAM::Role resource and you don’t specify anything in AssumeRolePolicyDocument parameter, you get this error. I guess the error message itself is self explanatory that AssumeRolePolicyDocument can not be empty. If you check documentation for Read More
AWS CloudShell: CLI Access to AWS Resources from your Browser Dear Reader, I hope you are doing well. Today I am here to share my experience with AWS CloudShell. AWS CloudShell is a browser-based shell that lets you interact with AWS resources via the command line from your browser in Read More
Dear Reader, Hope you are doing well. In this post, you will learn to use AWS CloudFormation to Create SNS Topic and Subscription. We will be discussing the creation of Standard topic as well as FIFO topic(Yes they do exists and are meant to be used with SQS FIFO queues 🙂 ). Read More
AWS EC2 Instance Purchasing Options Dear Reader, In one of my previous post I helped you launch an EC2 instance from AWS console. We launched an instance when we needed(on-demand), we did some experiment and then we terminated the instance. However, please note that there are a lot more in Read More
