Month: August 2015

How to Manage Front-End JavaScript and CSS Dependencies with Bower on Ubuntu 14.04

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Introduction Long gone are the days when we had to manually search for, download, unpack, and figure out installation directories for our front-end frameworks, libraries, and assets. Bower is a package manager for front-end modules that are usually comprised of JavaScript and/or CSS. It lets us easily search for, install, update, or remove these front-end Read more about How to Manage Front-End JavaScript and CSS Dependencies with Bower on Ubuntu 14.04[…]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the China (Beijing) AWS region

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS. You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling Read more about AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the China (Beijing) AWS region[…]

AWS CloudFormation Updates Support for Amazon VPC, AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3

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AWS CloudFormation has expanded support for additional features of Amazon VPC, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3. Amazon VPC: CloudFormation can now be used to provision VPC Endpoints. The AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint resource in CloudFormation creates a VPC endpoint that you can use to establish a private connection between your VPC and another Read more about AWS CloudFormation Updates Support for Amazon VPC, AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3[…]

DynamoDB Update: Enhanced metrics for better operational insight

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We are now reporting some of the most popular DynamoDB CloudWatch metrics in 1-minute intervals instead of 5-minute intervals to give you better operational insight. DynamoDB CloudWatch metrics let you monitor the performance of your DynamoDB tables. The increased granularity will let you make better decisions about operating your DynamoDB tables. Please see the Monitoring Read more about DynamoDB Update: Enhanced metrics for better operational insight[…]

How To Test your Firewall Configuration with Nmap and Tcpdump

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Introduction Setting up a firewall for your infrastructure is a great way to provide some basic security for your services. Once you’ve developed a policy you are happy with, the next step is to test your firewall rules. It is important to get a good idea of whether your firewall rules are doing what you Read more about How To Test your Firewall Configuration with Nmap and Tcpdump[…]

Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03.1 point release

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The Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03.1 point release is now available in all EC2 regions. We have updated base AMI images, including all bugfix and security updates that had been pushed to our repositories in the time since the 2015.03 release. Today’s point release includes the 3.14.48 kernel and adds the nfs-utils package to the default Read more about Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03.1 point release[…]