Archives for Cloud Computing - Page 19
Azure–High Availability IaaS with Traffic Manager – Architecture
Azure high availability VMs architecture – including Taffic Manager, AD instances (on VMs). Self Explanatory – except possibly for the VPN Gateways in each region. Azure High Availability Architecture
NAT Route Tables–Multi AZ Deployments– AWS
Simple ROUTEs for a SINGLE NAT Instance Configuration – ELB in front of NAT instance. NAT instance in it’s own security group (NAT_SG); ELB in it’s own Security Group (ELB_SG)…
Switching AWS Directory Services VPC
Moving an EC2 instance from a VPC to another Stop your instance. Create a private AMI of the instance. Detach all secondary EBS volumes from the instance. Create a new…
Reset an AWS root account password
To reset a root account password – when you have access to the associated email 1. Open , and then choose Sign In to the Console. Note: If you're…
EC2 Instance launch only if correctly tagged
This can apply to EC2 instances, EBS volumes or ; You can tweak it to work for only key present, key-value present and key value exact match. Step 1 -…
Database Users on RDS – IAM Authentication to RDS / MySQL / Postgres
Say you have a database user that needs to login to an RDS instance on AWS. The basic idea is to Create an AWS Role that maps to the Database…
AWS SSO from an On Premises Active Directory
Users on your on-premises Active Directory need SSO access to a) AWS accounts and b) cloud applications in the AWS SSO user portal AWS Directory Service has the following two…
Azure Active Directory’s Access Control Service (ACS) is
Azure Active Directory's Access Control Service (ACS) is being retired on Nov8, 2018. In most cases, this will break web applications (hosted on Azure or on-prem using AAD) that utilize…
Azure Accounts / Subscriptions Compared to AWS
Azure Subscriptions contain all your resources (all your VMs, storage accounts etc.) An account (sometimes called a 'user account') in Azure is primarily a billing construct that can hold one…
Hierarchical Policies AWS Accounts
With AWS Organizations, one can create a top level organization to contain multiple ; Under a top level Org, multiple OUs can be defined. So, you could have segmentation based…