'Oh My Bill' is a plugin that uses CloudHealth API to get your AWS cost report. Here are two files you need if you are interested to use: lib/omb.js and scripts/omb.js
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Send VPC flow logs to Sumologic
VPC flow is a AWS feature that allows you to capture the inbound and outbound traffics of all network interfaces in your VPC. To get the information, you have to go to the Cloudwatch to read the raw logs line by line which is not really efficient. If you happen to use Sumologic, you can … Continue reading Send VPC flow logs to Sumologic
Elastic Beanstalk Gotchas
Elastic Beanstalk is a great tool for the devs who wants a quick way to spin up web application environments which have ELB, ASG, RDS and DNS, also offer an easy way to deploy codes and manage the floating dns. I have been using it for a few weeks. And here are a few gotchas … Continue reading Elastic Beanstalk Gotchas
Tips on saving AWS cost
I remember a few years back, lots companies were struggling with the VM sprawl problem. With the popularity of Cloud, the in house VM sprawl issues might be improved as most companies are moving to Cloud nowadays. I like the flexibility (on demand) and capability (a broad range of technologies) of Cloud. But I have to … Continue reading Tips on saving AWS cost
EC2 Instance assume role in other accounts
Besides IAM users, some AWS services can also assume roles. Here is the example of granting assume role permission to a EC2 instance. The scenario is that I have two accounts: In account A, I created a role (e.g RoleForB) to trust account B, and add a IAM policy to allow it to perform some read … Continue reading EC2 Instance assume role in other accounts
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