I talked about AWS EC2 and general services billing in my previous blogs. AWS Services usage and billing reports already provides summary billing report for Elastic Load Balancing. However, if you want to generate a detailed per instance based report, we need to go one step further and generate that. Refer my previous blog here…
AWS EBS Volumes Billing Report
If you are familiar with AWS services Usage Billing reports you might have noticed there are two types of billing for EC2. Once for the EC2 Compute resources and it does not include Storage, EIP and some other resources attached with the EC2. AWS has categorized all those costs in to “EC2 – Other”. So,…
How to import PFX file to AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Certificate Manager(ACM) is Amazon provided cloud-based Certificate repository and management service. It helps you integrate Certificates to different AWS services including ELB/ALB, RDS etc. Refer AWS Documentation to learn more about this service. AWS ACM allows you to import PEM-encoded single or chain Certificate. So, if you have a PFX Certificate, first you need…
Azure AD application Certificate expiration report
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Once we register an Application with Azure AD, we configure Secrets or Certificates or sometimes both. This is required to set up application authentication and authorization, Sign-On or OAuth authorization service etc. The secret or the certificate we set on the application has an expiry….
Apply Tags on Azure resources
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. In my previous blog, I talked about benefits of tagging and how to tag resource groups using powershell. A script was also provided with some standard example tags – like, Environment, Budget Category, Application etc. Let’s keep on working on the same situation like last…
Apply tags on Azure Resource Groups using powershell
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Many of you can relate to a situation when you have a large cloud environment to manage with hundreds or thousands of resources, however, no way to organize them as those were not set up with proper naming convention or tagging . Tagging is one…
Azure AD application Client Secret expiration report
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. Azure AD Application is an identity with some configurations on cloud. When you register an Azure AD application in Azure portal , two objects are created in your Azure AD Tenant : An application object A service principal object Application object An Azure AD application…
Add custom field to Azure DevOps Work item type
Azure DevOps is Microsoft provided service to provide version control, reporting, project management, build and release management service. It can be Azure hosted (online) or on-premise. It covers the entire application cycle and enables DevOps capabilities. Check Microsoft documentation to learn more about Azure DevOps. Recently I was working on a Project to write some…
AWS Services Cost and Usage report
In my previous blog I wrote about AWS EC2 cost and usage report using AWS SDK for powershell. It was just for EC2 instances as obviously EC2 instances are one of main contributor to our AWS bill every month. However, we also wanted to have a cost and usage report for all deployed resource types…
AWS EC2 Cost and Usage report
AWS provides a nice service called Cost Explorer to generate different AWS expense reports based on different filters and time range. It has a very easy to use interface to visualize cost and usage data through graphs as well as raw CSV data. You may refer AWS documentation to know how to use Cost Explorer…