by truthbrother | Aug 13, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the...
by truthbrother | Aug 13, 2021 | Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services
Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his team of five engineers had built a product called CloudBerryExplorer for Amazon S3. I mentioned his product in my CloudFront Management Tool Roundup and in several...
by truthbrother | Jul 29, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Ansible
A practical way to provision instances on Amazon Web Service EC2 with Ansible. Welcome, this article shows a simple approach to use Ansible for provisioning an AWS EC2 instance. Ansible is a configuration management tool widely used to provision IT environments,...
by truthbrother | Jul 29, 2021 | Amazon Web Services, Ansible
I wanted to create Amazon EC2 Key pair using Ansible tool. I do not want to use AWS CLI. Is it possible to create AWS ec2 key using Ansible? You need to use ec2_key module of Ansible. This module has a dependency on python-boto version 2.5 or above. boto is nothing...
by truthbrother | May 7, 2021 | Amazon Web Services
This is Part 2 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series. In Part 1, we explained why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation. In this post, we’re going to introduce the basics of how to use...
