Data availability is one of the biggest concern in IT industry. After moving most of my services to the AWS cloud I was thinking how I can ensure data availability and accuracy in case of AWS data center failure or what if my EC2 EBS volume gets corrupted. A case study I have a Oracle …
{ “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Action”: [ “rds:Describe*”, “rds:ListTagsForResource”, “rds:Download*”, “ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes”, “ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones”, “ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups”, “ec2:DescribeVpcs” ], “Effect”: “Allow”, “Resource”: “*” }, { “Action”: [ “cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics”, “logs:DescribeLogStreams”, “logs:GetLogEvents” ], “Effect”: “Allow”, “Resource”: “*” } ] }
There is an easy way to access to Instance information from within. This is very useful when writing scripts who are executed inside the Instance. The method is accessing the Instance Metadata using a HTTP GET call to the IP 169.254.169.254. It works on any EC2 instance and the IP address is always the same. …
Download Scripts https://aws.amazon.com/code/8720044071969977 Install Prerequisite Packages sudo yum install wget unzip perl-core perl-DateTime perl-Sys-Syslog perl-CPAN perl-libwww-perl perl-Crypt-SMIME perl-Crypt-SSLeay Install LWP Perl Bundles Launch cpan sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell Install Bundle install Bundle::LWP6 LWP YAML Install Script wget http://aws-cloudwatch.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.1.zip unzip CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.1.zip -d /opt rm -f CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-1.2.1.zip Setup Credentials API Access Key (Option 1) This is …
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