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Secure RDP Access to Amazon EC2 for Windows: Leveraging Fleet Manager and Session Manager

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Fleet Manager is a service AWS Systems Manager provides to securely manage Amazon EC2 instances at scale. Cloud engineers can log in via remote desktop (RDP) to Amazon EC2 instances for Windows using Fleet Manager to perform troubleshooting or management tasks. Previously, a set of configurations were required to access an Amazon EC2 instance for … Continue reading Secure RDP Access to Amazon EC2 for Windows: Leveraging Fleet Manager and Session Manager

Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Windows using user data

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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides. It monitors log files, collects and tracks metrics, sets alarms, and triggers actions to help AWS users ensure the health and performance of their applications and infrastructure resources. CloudWatch integrates with various AWS services, such as Amazon EC2, to provide comprehensive … Continue reading Install and configure CloudWatch Logs agent on Amazon EC2 instance for Windows using user data

Protecting Credentials and Variables in AWS Fargate Containers using AWS Secrets Manager

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Credentials and sensitive variables allow access to confidential data and must be protected from unauthorized access so only permitted entities can access them. AWS Fargate is a technology that can be used with Amazon ECS to run containers. AWS Fargate is commonly used to run workloads to interact with databases or access confidential data or … Continue reading Protecting Credentials and Variables in AWS Fargate Containers using AWS Secrets Manager

Enabling Health Checks and CloudWatch Logs for AWS Fargate Tasks

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In Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), HealthCheck is a mechanism for monitoring the health status of containerized applications running in tasks. It helps ensure that only healthy containers (with health check passing) serve traffic and unhealthy containers are replaced automatically. Configuring the ECS Managed Healthcheck is crucial for maintaining the availability, reliability, and scalability of … Continue reading Enabling Health Checks and CloudWatch Logs for AWS Fargate Tasks

Automating AWS Lambda Deployment: Harnessing Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Python for CloudWatch Logging

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Per AWS-Docs, AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Lambda, you can execute code in response to events such as HTTP requests, database changes, or file uploads, scaling automatically with usage. It supports various programming languages and … Continue reading Automating AWS Lambda Deployment: Harnessing Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Python for CloudWatch Logging

Automating AWS Infrastructure with CloudFormation and GitHub Actions: A Tutorial

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This note aims to demonstrate how to deploy a couple of CloudFormation templates using GitHub Actions to create Amazon cloud resources. There are two tools we're discussing. The first one is AWS CloudFormation, an infrastructure as a code tool to provision AWS cloud resources declaratively. The AWS cloud resources and their relationships are declared in … Continue reading Automating AWS Infrastructure with CloudFormation and GitHub Actions: A Tutorial

Continuous Deployment of Amazon ECS service using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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This note demonstrates how to host a Docker image as a container in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Per AWS Docs, Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. Deploying a service into Amazon ECS can be divided into three separate use cases: … Continue reading Continuous Deployment of Amazon ECS service using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Build, Scan, and Push Docker image to Amazon ECR using GitHub Actions

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This blog post is the second part of an umbrella series in which I demonstrate how to create and deploy an Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) service using Terraform and GitHub Actions. In the first part, I covered creating all the required AWS cloud services to host the ECS service. In this second part, I'll … Continue reading Build, Scan, and Push Docker image to Amazon ECR using GitHub Actions

Create infrastructure to host an Amazon ECS Service using Terraform

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This is the first part of an umbrella note in which I describe how to create and deploy an Amazon ECS service using Terraform and GitHub Actions. The cloud engineering team must provision particular AWS cloud services before hosting a container in Amazon ECS. In this note, I list all the required AWS services, their … Continue reading Create infrastructure to host an Amazon ECS Service using Terraform

Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace and Identity store user using Terraform

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This note is an extension of my previous note on creating an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace with one more resource added to the configuration. In my earlier note, there was a pre-requisite manual step to create the IAM Identity Center user before creating the Amazon Managed Grafana workspace. At that time, the AWS Terraform provider … Continue reading Create an Amazon Managed Grafana workspace and Identity store user using Terraform