Category Archives: AWS

Ports required for the AD

Lots of links talk about the ports required for the AD connection and in my environment below ports are enabled and able to add the client to the AD with DNS registred. TCP_636  TCP_3268  TCP_3269 TCP_88  UDP_88  TCP_53 UDP_53  TCP_445 UDP_445  … Continue reading

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AWS Compute related updates

AWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customers Resource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS Outposts New course for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18 AWS Lambda Extensions: a new … Continue reading

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cfn-lint useful tool for the CloudFormation.

Recently had the chance to learn about the CFN-LINT tool which is a very useful tool to validate the CloudFormation template directly using the editor and it makes us create the CF without any error and secured. https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-python-lint

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Steps to be taken while migrating the EC2 to different type.

We have migrated one of our EC2 instance from T2 to T3 and found there is a lack of performance on the server and when we had a call with AWS support they shared that the T3 type is based … Continue reading

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Some of the free stuffs which we can use it during this COVID-19 lockdown

Some of the free stuffs are available which is in the list below and hoping it will help during this tough period. Pluralsight  https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/2020/free-april-month Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/expanding-at-home-learning Docker: https://portal.cloudskills.io/docker-jumpstart Books: Kindle Free https://landing.google.com/sre/books/ UDEMY https://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-serverlessaws/ https://www.udemy.com/amazon-web-services-aws-cloudformati…/ JENKINS https://www.udemy.com/working-with-jenkins/ https://www.udemy.com/jenkins-beginner-tutorial-step-by-st…/ https://www.udemy.com/jenkins-quick-start/Continue reading

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Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

  Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system. Amazon FSx provides NTFS file systems that can be accessed from up to thousands of compute instances using the SMB protocol (SMB 2.0 to 3.1.1).  … Continue reading

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Useful links on EC2\FSX with new features

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-adds-support-for-high-availability-microsoft-sql-server-deployments/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-supports-max-instance-lifetime/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-ec2-auto-scaling-supports-instance-weighting/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/amazon-fsx-windows-file-server-supports-managing-file-shares-via-powershell/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/amazon-ec2-spot-now-provides-instance-launch-notifications-via-amazon-cloudwatch-events/

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Memories of 2019

2019 started with the lot of new surprises in the company roadmap and one of the main change is to move the on-perm to the cloud which means reducing the VMware footprint. Initially it was tough to accept the change … Continue reading

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Error while migrating vSphere VMs to Amazon with AWS Server Migration Service

By the help of the link , configured the AWS Server Migration Service and at final stage of the sync it got failed with the error ” Instance failed to boot and establish network connectivity” So we stopped all the … Continue reading

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