Summary AWS Support App in Slack is a new AWS feature that allows users to manage AWS support case in Slack. This is pretty useful for teams that are heavily on Slack. Here are a quick summary of what I have found so far: User can create/search/resolve cases with AWS support app (Type /awssupport help in the … Continue reading AWS Support App in Slack
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AWS Config Advance Queries against Aggregator sample
It is quite convenient to use the AWS Config advance queries against the aggregator, a simple use case is like - Find out which instances in which accounts have public IP address cross the organisation. Instead of writing a script to describe instances across all the accounts, we can just simply run the following query … Continue reading AWS Config Advance Queries against Aggregator sample
Automate VPN failover via TGW attachment
Continue with my previous post Automate VPN connection and its TGWÂ attachment, in this post I would like to share the solution for VPN failover via TGW attachment. The key components in the solution are: Network Manager for Transit GatewayEventBridgeLambda The basic idea is: Register TGW to Network Manager, as Network Manager can monitor the tunnel … Continue reading Automate VPN failover via TGW attachment
Automate VPN connection and its TGW attachment
If you use the CloudFormation resource AWS::EC2::VPNConnection to create the VPN connection and attach it to the Transit Gateway (TGW), you may notice that it does not return the TGW attachment ID. So it is a bit annoying if you would like to tag the attachment and associate the attachment to a non-default TGW route table. … Continue reading Automate VPN connection and its TGW attachment
AWS IAM Roles Anywhere
A couple years back I wrote a post to share how to create AWS instance profile for on-premise servers. That was to use SSM agent and Lambda function to manage the IAM credentials for the on-premise servers. Starting early this month, the AWS native solution for such use cases are available - AWS IAM Role … Continue reading AWS IAM Roles Anywhere
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