How-To

How-to, tips, tricks and more hands-on advice for working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) from AWSInsider.net.


Linking Corporate Domain Names to Amazon Chime

AWS subscribers can now associate their corporate domain name with their Chime account, making it easier for organizations to give employees access to the cloud-based UC service.

Setting Up AWS WorkSpaces

The biggest barrier to deploying virtual desktops has always been the infrastructure costs. Luckily, AWS offers a solution for those who want to use virtual desktops but don't have the budget for it.

Enabling Service Control Policies in AWS Organizations

Left unchecked, the spread of uncategorized AWS accounts in a company can turn into a policy nightmare. Here's how to establish some oversight using service control policies.

Consolidating AWS Accounts into an 'Organization'

The new AWS Organizations feature lets IT wrangle multiple AWS accounts into a single, centralized structure. Here's a step-by-step guide.

Modifying Live AWS Elastic Block Store Volumes

Need to scale up your Amazon cloud storage on the fly? Brien shows you how to expand your EBS storage while it is actively being used -- and without risking any downtime.

Migrate a Microsoft Azure VM to AWS, Part 2

Now that you've downloaded and resized the Azure virtual hard disk, here comes the slightly more complicated part: actually prepping the virtual hard disk for the Amazon Web Services cloud.

Migrate a Microsoft Azure VM to AWS, Part 1

Just because it's possible to move a virtual machine from Microsoft's cloud to Amazon's, doesn't mean it's easy. In the first installment of this two-part series, Brien identifies what you need to start the process.

Controlling AWS Costs with Reserved Instances

For many organizations, switching from on-demand instances to reserved instances can significantly cut back on costs, make cloud workloads more efficient and -- most importantly -- prevent any surprise charges from appearing on their bill.

Using AWS for Network Endpoint Monitoring

There are plenty of tools that can monitor the health of resources located in your own datacenter, but many of them don't work for monitoring resources in the public cloud. Thankfully, AWS provides a suite of health-check tools called Route 53.

Using AWS To Manage On-Premises Servers

While EC2 is designed to run instances within the Amazon Web Services cloud, you can also use the EC2 console to manage instances running within your own datacenter. Brien shows you how.

Assessing Your Security with Amazon Inspector

Here's how to use the Amazon Inspector tool to check the health of your AWS instances from within.

Virtual Private Cloud Peering with AWS, Part 2: The Setup

Now that you know the limits of what you can and can't do with VPC peering, here's how to actually set it up in AWS.

Virtual Private Cloud Peering with AWS, Part 1: The Guidelines

VPC peering can be useful for linking resources that would otherwise be isolated from one another. But before you set it up in AWS, it's important to know the ground rules.

What You Need To Know About VPC Security Groups

Here's a quick rundown of what a VPC security group is, what it does, and some of the rules you'll need to keep in mind when creating and working with them in AWS.

Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

Working in an AWS environment doesn't mean that developers have to give up the tools they use daily. For Visual Studio developers, AWS offers a solution to help them deploy services on its cloud.

Creating a Virtual Private Cloud on AWS

VPCs are relatively easy to set up in AWS, although they usually require a significant degree of configuration afterward. Brien walks you through the steps.

Using AWS for Mobile Device Testing

The proliferation of mobile devices and platforms has complicated the testing process in recent years. Fortunately, the AWS Device Farm lets admins and developers run tests against a variety of device types.

Connecting to a Linux Instance in AWS Using PuTTY

Logging in to a Linux instance is significantly different from logging in to a Windows instance. Brien walks you through the steps using the PuTTY utility.

Creating Resource Groups in AWS

Amazon Web Services allows admins to create logical groupings of AWS resources, and manage them using tags and tag values. Here's how to get started.

Using AWS To Host WordPress

The AWS cloud is more than a platform for hosting VM instances, allocating cloud storage and other IaaS-related tasks. As Brien shows, it can also be used as a platform for hosting Web applications.

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