Category: Amazon Web Services

Updating repository lists and keyrings for Kali Linux on Amazon Web Services

December 9, 2015

I was recently launching an instance of Kali Linux (1.0.6 | 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI) | Updated: 10/10/14) in Amazon Web Services and as the image only provides the Kali package repository (as per the description”bare-bones”) I was looking to install the complete system (apt-get install kali-linux-full) from the available packages. However, on invoking the installation of … More Updating repository lists and keyrings for Kali Linux on Amazon Web Services

Enabling Detailed Billing Report (with resources and tags) in AWS Billing Preferences

October 22, 2013

In order to provide an hourly grain view of your AWS usage and charges by resource and tags you will be required to enable detailed billing with your AWS account billing preferences. In order to do so there are a couple of pre-requisites you will be required to enable with the billing preferences (https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html?ie=UTF8&ie=UTF8&action=billing-preferences). Firstly, … More Enabling Detailed Billing Report (with resources and tags) in AWS Billing Preferences

Updates to the AWS Management Console and Provisioned IOPS

October 14, 2013

After being away from the office for a few days, I noticed today that there is a updated user interface to the Amazon Web Services console. In addition to the updated user interface a number of updates have been included for the Launch Instance Wizard. Configuring Instance VPC and Subnet Details On configuring your instance … More Updates to the AWS Management Console and Provisioned IOPS

Using Best Practices checks with CloudCheckr

October 14, 2013

In the next couple of articles I will be writing I am going to be looking at Resource Control, Cost Optimisation and Best Practice features provided by CloudCheckr (cloudcheckr.com) and how I hope to use them in managing a deployment in Amazon Web Services. Once you have registered for your CloudCheckr account (see https://deangrant.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/receive-extended-free-trial-of-cloudcheckr-pro/, for an … More Using Best Practices checks with CloudCheckr

Making a start on reducing spend on AWS…

October 10, 2013

As part of ongoing monitoring an optimization of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, I am beginning to more actively monitor cost control which can highlight a number of common mistakes with usage of the AWS platform. Whilst, looking at a number of third party monitoring and resource control solutions, investigating and developing techniques internally … More Making a start on reducing spend on AWS…