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Moving EC2 Instance to a Different Availability Zone, VPC, Region
Moving Amazon EC2 instance to another Availability Zone, VPC or AWS Region may result in a headache for administrators, who think that it is a must to stop the existing and brand a new instance each time. If it’s a production instance, the interruption disrupts the working process and leads to the significant money/time losses. So, do you really have to migrate all the data manually? Continue reading
Azure VM vs Amazon EC2 vs Google CE: Cloud Computing Comparison
If you look for a cloud VM infrastructure, there are 3 biggest cloud systems available: Amazon Elastic Cloud 2, Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Since it’s still hard to choose the right one, we are going to explain key differences to make the choice easier.
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AWS CloudWatch: What Is It?
You probably already use the built-in report to monitor instance usage peaks. In the same time, it’s not unusual for developers to be unaware of AWS CloudWatch and its’ ability to collect metrics over major AWS tools, including Amazon EC2 performance and loads, send notifications via Amazon SNS, initiate auto-scaling or other actions in response to different events on schedule-basis and store instance logs.
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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Explained
Cloud world standards constantly become more demanding and high upload speed becomes a must, especially in business analytics and other real-time data processing areas. Being the world's leading provider of cloud solutions, Amazon Web Services intends to meet this challenge. So, a feature ensuring faster data transfer called Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration was added to Amazon S3.
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How to Automatically Invalidate Dynamic Objects in Amazon CloudFront Using AWS Lambda
Learn how to leverage Amazon Lambda functionality to automate object invalidation from this step-by-step guide.
How to Find Your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key
In this post, we will explain how to retrieve Amazon Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key. These keys allow you to control your AWS account. Continue reading
Explaining Google Cloud Storage Authentication
Today we are going to talk about authentication and authorization with OAuth 2.0 protocol that is used by Google and many other services. By means of it, services and applications like MSP360 Explorer can get access to third-party systems with no need to disclose user logins and passwords.
The information described in this post will prove useful when using any modern web-services. But we will consider the specifics of Google Cloud Storage authentication.
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How to Configure Billing Alerts for Your AWS Account
Amazon Web Services charge users monthly on a Pay-As-You-Go basis. Sometimes your bills can unexpectedly go high. For example, if you have a running, but not used “t2.medium” Amazon EC2 instance, you will pay additional $51.24/month and excessive provisioned IOPS on EBS volume can lead to an extra $120/month.
In this article we explain how to avoid unexpected bills with AWS CloudWatch Billing Alarms and SNS Notifications. Continue reading
Email Notifications for Amazon S3 RRS: How to Setup Lost Object Notification and Re-Upload to the Cloud
Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is a storage class within Amazon S3 that costs 30% less than Amazon S3 Standard Storage, but with lower durability: 99.99% (RRS) vs 99.999999999% (S3 Standard). That means AWS can lose 1 from 10 000 files during one year. Continue reading
How to Do a Full Server Restore to Amazon EC2
In this post, we explain how to recover your server to Amazon EC2. This will be helpful in disaster recovery cases when you don’t have spare hardware but need to restore server nonetheless. Continue reading
AWS CloudFront Overview
CloudFront is an AWS service for content delivery that integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy and fast way to distribute content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
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