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,…
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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…
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…
AWS EC2 CPU metric report using Powershell
Amazon CloudWatch is cloud based monitoring solution by Amazon. It provides with data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes and optimize resource utilization. It has many more features apart from those I just mentioned. Please refer to AWS documentation for more details. CloudWatch provides you with options to create nice…
Script to generate AWS S3 Bucket inventory
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is Amazon provided cloud based scalable, high speed Object storage service. According to Amazon – “Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect…
AWS EBS Snapshot inventory
Amazon EBS Snapshot is point in time copy of Amazon EBS(Elastic Block Storage) volumes attached with EC2 instance. We usually take snapshot just to make a baseline system by freezing the state in a snapshot and using it as a source to deploy other similar system. Sometimes, we do take snapshot as a way of…
AWS DynamoDB complete inventory using Powershell
Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud based no-SQL key-value and document database. It is a very high performance and scalable database service from Amazon. Please refer here for more information. Refer my post here if you are want to generate an inventory of Relational Database System(RDS) by Amazon. The script I am providing below will help…
AWS RDS complete inventory using Powershell
Following definition of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is taken from AWS documentation for RDS. Please refer here for more information – “Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such…
AWS ELB complete inventory using Powershell
Following definition of Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is taken from AWS documentation for ELB. Refer here for more information – “Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single…