AWS Identity and Access Management best practises #cloudops #devops #security

To follow AWS Identity and Access Management best practises delete your amazon root SSH keys, create IAM users and always use your IAM users to login.

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_root-user.html?icmpid=docs_iam_console#id_root-user_manage_add-key

and access AWS on a day to day basis via IAM instead of via amazon.co.uk

AWS root login

• https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin?openid.assoc_handle=aws
• https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/home
• https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/security_credentials

AWS IAM login

• https://us-east-1.signin.aws.amazon.com/oauth?SignatureVersion=4
• https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/home

switch from @amazonuk AWS to @googleuk cloud and “save up to 35% on compute and 21% on storage”

switch from amazon AWS to goog cloud and “save up to 35% on compute and up to 21% on storage”

• https://cloud.google.com/pricing/

 

 

Cloud Container Management Services

Docker Swarm, ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes and MS Azure Container Services

• https://medium.freecodecamp.org/amazon-ecs-terms-and-architecture-807d8c4960fd

Docker

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/docker-basics.html

AWS

• https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
• https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-fargate/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/migrating-your-amazon-ecs-containers-to-aws-fargate/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/AWS_Fargate.html

aws @amazonuk #redshift dw cloud (nothing to do with @redhat #openshift) now has #python #udfs

aws amazonuk redshift dw cloud (nothing to do with redhat openshift) now has python udfs

• http://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/4500254056/Amazon-Redshift-data-warehouse-gets-long-awaited-functions

apparently the @google #cloud is 40% cheaper than the @amazon #cloud

apparently the google cloud is 40% cheaper than the amazon cloud

• https://cloud.google.com/pricing/tco/

amzon #aws, #openshift & vmware #vcloud hybrid clouds

The industry’s answer to combat AWS in the public cloud has been the OpenStack alliance of IBM, HP, Rackspace and others. But VMware’s recent announcement could put it in the running, too

• http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/the-battle-for-enterprise-cloud-takes-shape-among-aws-openstack-vmware/

amazon goes cloudy

amazon cloud drive apps for 5G of your music and photos on your android and pc

• android play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.clouddrive.photos&hl=en
• pc amazon.com/gp/drive/app-download/ref=cd_splash_desk
  

amazon glacier storage

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.

See also

• http://aws.typepad.com/aws/amazon-glacier-offsite-archival-storage

Amazon SES Management Console

Amazon have announced the immediate availability of the Management Console for Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) – AWS’s highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers.

The Amazon SES Management Console is a simple and intuitive web-based user interface for Amazon SES that allows you to do the following with a few clicks of your mouse:

• Check your sending quota and usage
• See your Amazon SES bounce, complaint, and rejection metrics over time
• Verify sender email addresses
• Send both formatted and raw test emails

See

• forums.aws.amazon.com/1222
  
• docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/DeveloperGuide/
• docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/APIReference/

Amazon add SQS support to AWS Console

Amazon have just added support for Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to the AWS Management Console.

Amazon SQS offers a reliable and highly scalable queue-based messaging service which supports distributed application and makes it easy to exchange time-sensitive data between components or EC2 instances.