Recently, we have all seen many reports of AWS buckets that contained private data that were misconfigured and fully open to the public. Whether the result is slight embarrassment or a serious exfiltration of data, the risk of a misconfigured bucket can be mitigated fairly easily. Amazon S3 buckets can… Continue reading
What is ec2 pagination? AWS boto3 clients will only return 1000 entries max. That means if you have 1002 ec2 instances and use boto3 client to describe those instances what you get back is a list of 1000 EC2s, not the full 1002. This is the same for other clients… Continue reading
Jitsi is a video conferencing system that you can install on a private host. Traffic is encrypted from client to server, but is decrypted at the server in order to relay the audio/video to conference participants. I chose to run my own server so that decrypted communication is kept on… Continue reading
The Amazon Command Line (AWSCLI) is the tool from AWS that lets you interact with the AWS API. When using the AWSCLI you must pass it credentials like key/secret key or you can setup awscli config so that AWS can cache a single key/secret key to use with the commands. … Continue reading
This is another article in my continuing adventure in running Linux on my new Sager Laptop. To recap, I bought a Sager brand laptop because it had the same specs as a System76 Unit but at about 60% the cost. I figured if System76 can get a working desktop then… Continue reading
8-5-2019 In Amazon AWS, this is a process you can use to increase the size of a EC2’s primary disk without having to reboot the host. Let’s assume you have an EC2 linux host and just increased the disk from 10 Gb to 20 Gb because you needed more space. … Continue reading
This is how I setup a port forward on a Ubuntu host. Let us say there is an application with a web interface that runs HTTP but on an odd port, like 8080. We want to accept HTTP traffic for that application on the normal port 80 instead of 8080… Continue reading
Do you like having clear and easily manipulated controls on your desktop? I sure do. There seems to be a rush to get to a pure minimalist desktop UI. Where there are limited controls and everything is flat grey on a white background. I, for one, don’t consider my desktop… Continue reading
So it happened. One of our techs ‘accidentally’ deleted all the directories and files in one of our S3 buckets. I enabled S3 Bucket Versioning on all our important buckets. So the deleted files are still there with the ‘latest version’ of the file being a Delete Marker. If you… Continue reading
In this example I want to open a file directly from an S3 bucket without having to download the file from S3 to the local file system. This is a way to stream the body of a file into a python variable, also known as a ‘Lazy Read’. import boto3… Continue reading
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 1: Amazon AWS Connectivity and Basic VPC Networking
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 2: AWS S3 Storage: Buckets, Files, Management, and Security
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