By Imran Ahmed A common problem with a very simple solution. Let’s say that you have an IAM user that you’ve created, and you want to provide that user read-only access to an S3 bucket. An example of this that may be common is for those vendors, … [Continue reading] about Setting up Read-Only Access to S3 using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Setting up Multi-Factor Authentication with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
By Imran Ahmed Introduction Amazon Web Services provides a very robust permissions and policy management system through IAM, or Identity and Access Management. One step further that a corporate administrator can go to help protect some of their … [Continue reading] about Setting up Multi-Factor Authentication with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Configuring AWS Auto Scaling for WordPress
In previous posts, I covered the basics of Amazon Web Services, Preparing AWS Services to support our sample WordPress workload, and Installing WordPress in AWS with ElastiCache and S3/Glacier backups. In this post we’ll look at how to configure an … [Continue reading] about Configuring AWS Auto Scaling for WordPress
PCoIP Packet Loss? Don’t Blame the Network!
Several months ago I was called into a new customer to diagnose some odd behavior in their VMware View environment. The organization was struggling with constant disconnects and generally poor performance on their View desktops. When users weren’t … [Continue reading] about PCoIP Packet Loss? Don’t Blame the Network!
Installing WordPress on AWS
Now that we have our AWS infrastructure configured to support a sample WordPress workload (see Part 1 and Part 2 of this series) we can get into installing and configuring WordPress, AWS ElastiCache, and S3 / Glacier backups. Setup NFS Server for … [Continue reading] about Installing WordPress on AWS