Posts Tagged aws
AWS, IPv6 dual stacking, and Terraform
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in AWS, Sysadmin on July 5, 2020
My server had been running for 2 years, and it was overdue for a rebuild. I decided it was time I revisit AWS, and this time, try setting up dual stacking from the start. Which meant I needed to figure out how to get IPv6 working on AWS, and just to make things more interesting, […]
A First Look at Google Cloud Datastore
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in AWS, GCP on July 4, 2017
Note: This is a continuation of my post on exploring Google Cloud Platform. There is also a mirror of it on dev.to. At first glance, Datastore is equivalent to DynamoDB. I personally think that Datastore is better compared to SimpleDB. Unfortunately, SimpleDB isn’t accepting new customers/isn’t being deployed to new regions, so it’s not a […]
A First Look at Google Cloud Storage
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in AWS, GCP on July 4, 2017
Note: This is a continuation of my post on exploring Google Cloud Platform. There is also a mirror of it on dev.to. Storage price wise, S3 and GCS are mostly comparable, with a note that GCS bandwidth is more expensive, and you don’t really get a choice of what rate you want to pay. GCS […]
A First Look at Google Compute Engine
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in AWS, GCP on July 4, 2017
Note: This is a continuation of my post on exploring Google Cloud Platform. There is also a mirror of it on dev.to. Compute Engine is one of the more important services for me. While I’d love to have all my stuff on managed services like Lambda/Cloud Functions, it’s not possible. The fundamentals of GCE are […]
A First Look at Google Cloud Platform
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in AWS, GCP on July 4, 2017
This got really long, so I broke it up into parts. Feel free to skip to the parts you’re interested in. * Setting up, Organization differences & IAM/Authentication (this post) (dev.to mirror) * Google Compute Engine (dev.to mirror) * Google Cloud Storage (dev.to mirror) * Google Cloud Datastore (dev.to mirror) I have a bunch of […]
Exploring AWS Organizations
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in AWS on March 6, 2017
When AWS Organizations went GA, I was really happy. While I’ve had my personal AWS account for a while, I have a bunch of sites that aren’t personal in nature, and I wanted to spin them off into another account with the intention of having enough isolation that I could apply Terraform to those accounts […]
Quick and Dirty Shoestring Startup Infra
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in School, Sysadmin on May 31, 2016
At the University of Waterloo, we have a Final Year Design Project/Capstone project. My group is working on a conference management suite called Calligre. We’ve been approaching it as kind of a startup – we presented a pitch at a competition and won! While sorting out admin details with the judges after, they were oddly […]
Notes from various AWS Investigations
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Programming, Sysadmin on May 21, 2016
AWS CloudWatch Logs storage charge == S3 storage charge. Possibly less, since the logs are gziped level 6 first. CW Logs makes more sense than using AWS Elasticsearch at small scale – prices start at 1.8c an hour + EBS charges vs 50c/GB of log ingestion + storage For pure log storage & bulk retrival, […]
Using Amazon S3 + CloudFront + Certificate Manager to get seamless static HTTPS support
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on April 3, 2016
TL;DR: This post documents the process I took to get S3 to return redirect requests over HTTP + HTTPS to a given domain. I’m trying to trim down the number of domains and subdomains that I host on my server, since I’m trying a new policy of moving servers every few months in an attempt […]
Cheaping out on EC2 – using Spot Instances
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin, Uncategorized on September 1, 2012
Amazon markets Spot Instances as a way to reduce the price you pay for instances. So, continuing my efforts to reduce expenses on EC2, I looked into using spot instances. Spot instances are essentially just like normal instances. You can create your own AMIs, where you essentially create an image and tell Amazon to create […]