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…
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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 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 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…
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 EC2 complete inventory using Powershell
Following definition of Amazon EC2 instance is taken from AWS documentation. Please refer here for more information – “Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster….