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
Dear Reader, Today’s post is a beginner friendly guide on “How to Check if Versioning is Enabled on an S3 Bucket“. I see this question posted in online forums quite frequently, specially about checking versioning status of a bucket using AWS CLI. I will show you, how you can check Read More
Dear Reader, In this post I will help you enable versioning in an S3 Bucket using AWS Management Console, AWS CLI and CoudFormation. Stay tuned with me to do it in a step by step manner. What is AWS S3 Versioning? Versioning is a means of keeping multiple versions of Read More
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Error Message : At least one of [Groups,Roles,Users] must be non-empty Problem: When you try to create an IAM policy using AWS::IAM::Policy and you don’t specify a user, group or role you want to apply this policy to. In other words, if you try to create a standalone IAM policy Read More
How to Enable MFA for your IAM User on AWS Dear Reader, In one of my previous post I explained how to create an IAM user step by step. As a security best practice, AWS highly recommends to setup MFA for your IAM user to protect your user from being Read More
