Did you manually delete a resource created by AWS CloudFormation?

"There's no compression algorithm for experience.  You can't learn certain lessons without going through the curve." Andy Jassy, CEO AWS There's no substitute for experience, I'm sure this is a lesson we've all learned many times.  I had a refresher course in this recently while trying to further refine a CloudFormation template I've been working … Continue reading Did you manually delete a resource created by AWS CloudFormation?

Setup #AWS Inter-Region VPC Peering

Last week, AWS announced support for Inter-Region VPC Peering: Amazon EC2 now allows peering relationships to be established between Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) across different AWS regions. Inter-Region VPC Peering allows VPC resources like EC2 instances, RDS databases and Lambda functions running in different AWS regions to communicate with each other using private IP addresses, … Continue reading Setup #AWS Inter-Region VPC Peering

AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC302 — GPS: Anti-Patterns: Learning from Failure

I must be getting tired.  Honestly, I thought posting my session notes would be a pretty straightforward task but because I love documentation so much, I've made it harder than it needs to be.  My note taking problem is that I try to jot down everything as opposed to what may ultimately matter.  Anyway, on … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: GPSTEC302 — GPS: Anti-Patterns: Learning from Failure

AWS re:Invent Notes: SID331 — Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy

Here's a couple interesting fun facts in the form of numbers from yesterday (11/27), 6.46 and 0.  Going to and from the various sessions, I walked 6.46 miles yesterday and I had 0 desserts.  0 desserts!  I had a dessert Sunday night, a good one called "The cookie jar".  The cookie jar was a big, … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: SID331 — Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy

AWS re:Invent Notes: FSV301 — Security Anti-Patterns: Mistakes to Avoid

Before you read any further, I want to make it clear once again, that these are my notes from the AWS re:Invent sessions I'm attending.  I certainly want these to be helpful and informative, I hope they fuel your desire to learn more about AWS, I just don't want you to take them "as gospel … Continue reading AWS re:Invent Notes: FSV301 — Security Anti-Patterns: Mistakes to Avoid

Part 5 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Backup Jobs

On the 5th and final part of this series, we’ll look at creating backup jobs and accessing archived tapes.  Links for parts 1-4 are shown below: Post 1 – Deploying the Tape Gateway Post 2 – Creating Tapes Post 3 – Attaching the VTL to Windows Post 4 - Connect Veeam to VTL Creating Tape Media … Continue reading Part 5 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Backup Jobs

Part 4 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Connect Veeam to VTL

On the 4th part of this series, we’ll look at adding an AWS Tape Gateway VTL into our Veeam infrastructure as well performing some basic tape functions.  Links for parts 1-3 are shown below: Post 1 - Deploying the Tape Gateway Post 2 - Creating Tapes Post 3 - Attaching the VTL to Windows Adding … Continue reading Part 4 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Connect Veeam to VTL

Part 2 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Tapes

The diagram shown below, taken from Veeam's AWS/VTL Deployment Guide, is a representation of the infrastructure we are creating in this series: In part 1 of the Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway integration series, we looked at the process of deploying the AWS Tape Gateway OVF (Gateway VM) on VMware vSphere.  In this post, we'll … Continue reading Part 2 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Creating Tapes

AWS – Access Denied when Adding AD Trust Relationship

Late yesterday I decided to create an AWS Microsoft AD Directory Service.  The task itself is pretty straightforward and I had no problems with the deployment process.  A task that should be equally straightforward is setting up a trust relationship with an existing AD domain.  A task that should take about 5 minutes ended up … Continue reading AWS – Access Denied when Adding AD Trust Relationship

Part 1 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Deploying the Tape Gateway

As I'm sure many of you are, I've been working on ways to effectively harness the power of the cloud.  One idea I decided to pursue was integrating an AWS Tape Gateway with an on-prem Veeam infrastructure in order to move my archived backup data from my local datacenter to AWS S3 storage. Now, I'll … Continue reading Part 1 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Deploying the Tape Gateway