As a Cloud Architect and somebody that has a lot of past experience with virtualization, one thing that is both an advantage and a disadvantage is the need to know a little bit about a slew of different technologies. Having to answer questions an inch deep across a mile of topics one day and a…
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AWS Certification Journey: Solutions Architect Associate
This time last year, I was counting down the last few days until I was to sit my first AWS certification exam, the Solutions Architect Associate. Starting in October of 2018 I’d decided that this would be the course I’d take next and began working toward skilling myself up in all things AWS. There is…
The “Right” Way to Access Private EC2 Instances
Accessing private EC2 instances from a public jump host presents a potential security issue. Every instance must be accessed using a private access key, but storing this key on the jump host is a bad (actually, very bad) idea. If stolen, this could allow any of your systems configured with the key to be compromised….