Category: AWS

  • Easy GoLang AWS SDK V2  Upgrade

    Easy GoLang AWS SDK V2 Upgrade

    In my day job I have a pretty extensive library of routines I use to wrap cloud automation using the vendor libraries as composed functions. That makes things like deploying a stack, or creating an AMI a bit easier. Composed functions allow me to build things in the cloud in a consistent way.  I simply […]

  • AWS Accounts as Cattle

    AWS Accounts as Cattle

    Manage infrastructure as cattle not pets and automating DNS migration between accounts

  • Plesk Migration to AWS

    Plesk Migration to AWS

    I have been running my hosting on 1and1 hosting (now Ionos) since the early days of the web. In the years I’ve been on that service, I’ve moved it a few times from one of their servers to another (mostly to save a few bucks), so it was time to do a Plesk migration to […]

  • AWS Login Code As Infrastructure CloudFormation

    AWS Login Code As Infrastructure CloudFormation

    I set up AWS accounts in a hub and spoke model for access using AWS Organizations for login. This meaning that I have an AWS organization that is under my master account. I have my SSO federated login in a single login account whose only purpose is to do the federated login. After logging in, […]

  • CloudFormation Custom Resources

    CloudFormation Custom Resources

    CloudFormation is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) method of creating repeatable infrastructure as code. Technically templates that describe resources to be built in AWS. There are things that either were never implemented in CloudFormation, or need some logic that exceeds what CloudFormation does. For those cases, AWS provided the capability of adding macros and custom […]

  • AWS Extend Switch Roles

    AWS Extend Switch Roles

    I lear about a change in how AWS extend roles works, and how to use the extension in Chrome after that change. AWS Extend Switch Roles Update 2.0.3