How-To
How-to, tips, tricks and more hands-on advice for working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) from AWSInsider.net.
Amazon introduced a time-based snapshot copy feature that allows you to specify how quickly the snapshot copy process should be complete, useful to organizations who have compliance requirements necessitating snapshot copies to be made within a specific amount of time.
Thankfully, Amazon provides an easy way to look at network latency and performance between regions or availability zones, and Brien Posey shows you how.
"As I was writing this article, I had a lot of problems with the testing process displaying a time-out error," says Brien Posey, which is why you read these articles to see how problems are fixed.
To save money, Brien shows how to set up a scheduler to shut down a VM instance at the end of the day and automatically power it back on the next morning.
To actually do the migration, you'll need to access the AWS replication agent first. Here's how, using Windows Server as an example.
Although this service won't take the place of proper migration planning, it can be used to assist with the actual migration of physical or virtual servers.
Here's how to get your script files (or other files) into and out of the CloudShell environment.
There's nothing wrong with interacting with AWS via the command line, but CloudShell brings a few extra perks that AWS CLI doesn't.
How to set up GuardDuty to monitor your S3 data.
AWS recently extended GuardDuty's threat-hunting capabilities to its flagship storage service. Here's how to deploy it.
How to get the tape storage gateway backup-ready.
The trick to backing up your on-premises data to AWS is to leverage a storage gateway that acts as a virtual tape library. Here's how to get started.
Now that you've set up the requisite account, it's time to enable authentication. Here's how.
It's possible to manage AWS programmatically from the command line, but there are a few things you need to set up first -- starting with credentials.
Enter Amazon Q for some AI-powered selection assistance.
In this first part, let's break down the instance types that are available to you.
Now that we've delved into why zonal autoshift is so important, here's how to get up and running in your environment.
In this two-part series, we'll evaluate whether AWS Zonal Shifts is right for your organization's data and get you up and running with the service.
Keep on top of your organization's retention policy by taking advantage of AWS backup options.
Let's walk through the process, which can be a bit confusing, even for the most hardened AWS expert.