As an Administrator you provide access to AWS environment to developers and other business users to enable them doing their work . However, it is always recommended to go back and review IAM(Identity and Access Management) entities, such as, users, roles, policies etc. to make sure, they are set up with right set of permissions….
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Create EC2 Windows AMI with Packer and Powershell
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an AWS resource we use to deploy Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instances. Ideally, an AMI contains the Operating System(Windows, Linux etc.) and a list of customization made on it to meet specific requirements. It helps to quickly bootstrap one or more EC2 instances with similar configuration. As per Amazon…
Automate AWS billing report in Excel
I have posted several articles in past on how to generate billing reports for different AWS services and provided scripts to get those reports in csv format. Those reports are good and handy to quickly refer in discussions. However, if you want to present a nice AWS Cloud expense report to management you would need…
Create EC2 Linux AMI with Packer and Powershell
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an AWS resource we use to deploy Amazon EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instances. Ideally, an AMI contains the Operating System(Windows, Linux etc.) and a list of customization made on it to meet specific requirements. It helps to quickly bootstrap one or more EC2 instances with similar configuration. As per Amazon…
AWS EC2 Volumes Tagging
A Tag is an user defined metadata or label to an AWS resource to identify and manage it efficiently. Tag consists of a Key and an optional Value. It helps us to identify resources in Cloud environment quickly. For Example, a tag for “Environment” will help us to identify all resources in a particular environment….
AWS Elastic Load Balancer Tagging
A Tag is an user defined metadata or label to an AWS resource to identify and manage it efficiently. Tag consists of a Key and an optional Value. It helps us to identify resources in Cloud environment quickly. For Example, a tag for “Environment” will help us to identify all resources in a particular environment….
AWS EC2 Instance Tagging
A Tag is an user defined metadata or label to an AWS resource to identify and manage it efficiently. Tag consists of a Key and an optional Value. It helps us to identify resources in Cloud environment quickly. For Example, a tag for “Environment” will help us to identify all resources in a particular environment….
AWS RDS Billing Report
Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS) is a Cloud-based distributed relational database service. In today’s blog, I will share a script to generate RDS billing report for each RDS instance for a specified date range. Before we start, we need to setup our AWS credentials and AWS Powershell SDK . Refer following documents to set those :…
AWS Elastic IP Billing Report
In my previous blog I wrote about billing report for EBS Volumes under EC2 – Other service category of AWS Cost Explorer API. Today, I am going to provide another script which will help you to generate billing report specific to Elastic IP address usage in AWS. So, if you have already gone through the…
AWS ELB Billing Report
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…