Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service which monitor AWS resources on Cloud. It comes with dozen of monitoring metrics which ease Cloud Admin to use them in monitoring their AWS Infrastructure services resources like Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 Cloud Storage, Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) on Cloud etc. It collects monitoring and operational data…
Category: Cloud Computing
How to convert Amazon EC2 On Demand instance to Amazon EC2 Reserve Instance
I was using t2 micro instance for my WordPress website for one year on trial basis as most of you might know AWS provide 750 hours/month free tier usage of its t2 micro instance for a year. But as year passed my instance usage reached high and its trial usage also reached to finish. Due…
How to backup Linux machine to Amazon S3
AWS Amazon S3 is a Simple Cloud object storage solution provided by Amazon. Have a look below what Amazon write and say about S3: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it…
To Activate the Virtual MFA device authentication for AWS console access.
Multi-Factor authentication (MFA) is an extra layer of security, it is a combination of more then one credentials which authenticates the user example combination of user password with security token (software or hardware based), using of biomatric verification for authenticating the user credentials. By adding extra layer in security it make difficult for unauthorised person…
Red Hat OpenShift Online a Next generation Public Cloud PaaS.
By Launching of Red Hat OpenShift online in year 2011 Red Hat has revolutionize the Cloud platform as a service (PaaS) products since then. Red Hat OpenShift Online or RHOO gives platform to develop cloud-native application on PaaS to developers. It has hosted more than three million applications built by hundreds of thousands of individual…
Terraform – A new way of provisioning and managing Datacenter Infrastructure.
Terraform has become hot topic now days. In few years this tool has gain its popularity worldwide, many have adopted it as it has proven good progress which made this tool one of an essential tool of DevOps tool chain. Have a look the Google trend you will get picture how much popularity it has…
Dawn of Infrastructure as a Code a new method of Datacenter infrastructure management and provisioning.
Earlier in Datacenter Infrastructure were manage and provision through traditional way of physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tool but now Infrastructure as a code has changed the picture of managing and provisioning the Infrastructure. Infrastructure as a code or IaC is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files….
Docker and Containers New Buzzwords.
Docker is a container management service. The Docker keyword coined in DevOps for develop, ship and run anywhere why it is so because it enable the developers to easily develop the applications, ship the application into containers and later it can be deployed anywhere. The Docker was released in March 2013 but has become buzzword…
What is Cloud Object Storage?
Cloud object storage stores unstructured data(like application images or media files) in the cloud. Object storage is elastic, flexible and easily scalable into multiple petabytes which ideal for environment where data growth is unlimited hence it is considered a good fit for the cloud. Contrary to Block Storage which deal data as block and logical…
What is OpenFlow? How it works in SDN?
OpenFlow is a standard protocol of SDN which assist SDN Controller to communicate directly with the forwarding plane of network devices such as switches and routers, both physical and virtual (hypervisor-based), so it can better adapt to changing business requirements. Generally the conventional switches forwards the packets which are called the Forwarding Plane and do…