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Most photos from Jocko's Twitter feed If you don't know who Jocko Willinck is, here's the synopsis. Born and raised in New England. Dreamt of being a commando (his words). Became one as a Navy Seal. Fought in Ramadi, Iraq in 2006 in what is known as the Battle of Ramadi where fighting was considered [...]
A quick look at the creation and teardown of a .NET Web Application using Elastic Beanstalk.
Prerequisite You will need an existing keypair to access your EC2 instance via SSH. (How can I see my existing keypairs?) Overview In this example, we'll create an EC2 instance that supports writing memory metrics to CloudWatch. You don't get those metrics by default with EC2 instances, but setting them up is a breeze using [...]
(From July 2016 - Edited February 2018) We're not supposed to like things. Things are, well, shallow. But sometimes, things do bring us comfort. It might be a nice car or a beautiful house. Maybe it's your favorite coffee mug or a pair of jeans. It could be a red wristband. My bone graft went well – a [...]
I'll admit it. I was a bit of an elitist. Dressage, a French word meaning "training", is what I did and do. Train, train, train. Not only in dressage, but Muay Thai and strength training. Especially with horses, we may get taught along the way, by other elitists, that it's in the best interest of [...]
Assuming you have the AWS CLI installed, you can easily grep instances in a Region. To see your Default region name, type aws configure and hit Enter twice. To allow grep to work nicely with the output, enter "text" for the Default output format aws configure AWS Access Key ID [*******************]: AWS Secret Access Key [*******************]: [...]
Looking for advice on passing an AWS Architecture Associate Exam? I had been looking for that advice very recently. Fortunately, there are plenty of good resources out there to help. (And yes, I did pass the exam recently.) Advice isn't in the form of exam answers. Well, it is if you're willing to dig in. I followed [...]
When beginning with AWS, the concepts of Regions, Availability Zones (AZs), Data Centers and Edge Locations can be a little confusing. Let's review some facts that will help clarify what these things are and the relationship among them. For the moment, let's remove Edge Locations from consideration. The intent of an Edge Location differs slightly [...]
Write the file in the current directory with the same name. curl -O http://download.aircrack-ng.org/aircrack-ng-1.2-rc4.tar.gz Note that the -O is the letter "oh", uppercase. According to man, -O: Write output to a file named as the remote file. Featured Photo by Daniel von Appen on Unsplash
As one begins to write more sophisticated AWS Lambda functions, it quickly becomes clear that using shell scripts and the CLI to package, deploy and test will speed up development time. I often start in the AWS Console; then as the code becomes more complex, move to a local editor. Packaging at the Command Line [...]
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