Tag: AWS

Receive extended free trial of CloudCheckr Pro

September 13, 2013

CloudCheckr provides otherwise unavailable visibility and analytics to remove the complexity from AWS usage. Where users quickly and efficiently gain control of their deployment, reduce costs, and optimize infrastructure performance. By signing up (no credit card required) and using the promotional code “cloud19” on signup you will receive an extended trial of CloudCheckr Pro. For … More Receive extended free trial of CloudCheckr Pro

Monitoring status of AWS EC2 Snapshots within Nagios

September 12, 2013

I recently wrote a script to automate the creation of snapshots for EBS volumes for Amazon EC2 instances (https://deangrant.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/aws-create-ec2-snapshot-based-on-metadata-tag-value/). Following on from this I wanted to report the status of snapshots completed and return this status to Nagios. This was to be achieved by comparing the number of EBS volumes that contained a specific metadata tag … More Monitoring status of AWS EC2 Snapshots within Nagios

New paravirtual driver for Amazon EC2 instances

March 27, 2013

So Amazon have announced a release of a new Amazon Machine Image for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008 and 2008 R2 which now includes a new pararitualized driver, which according to Amazon provides the following benefits: Launch any Microsoft Windows Server AMI (2003 R2 to 2012, 64 bit) on any instance type Increase your Microsoft … More New paravirtual driver for Amazon EC2 instances

Auto-signing client certificates on Puppet Master Server

December 31, 2012

I am currently using Puppet to automate infrastructure within a cloud offering, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for those interested!.  As part of deployment of new instances, I require the client certificate to be automatically signed by the Puppet master server to immediately begin the configuration.  This can be achieved by allowing the master server to … More Auto-signing client certificates on Puppet Master Server

Eastern Time zone format and creating tasks in Ylastic

October 10, 2012

After signing up to the Ylastic service (ylastic.com) which provides a unified interface to manage your Amazon Web Services cloud environment, I started to struggle with the simple task of creating scheduled tasks using CRON expressions. From the initial configuration, it would appear that Ylastic does not support using special characters other than the asterisk. … More Eastern Time zone format and creating tasks in Ylastic