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AWS CloudWatch: Creating Billing Alarms

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AWS CloudWatch Billing Alarm By Jayant Sharma You can monitor your estimated AWS charges using Amazon CloudWatch. When you enable the monitoring of estimated charges for your AWS account, the estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data. For beginners and students, Amazon Web Services has a  Free Tier , which is  very generous . However, as you move from free tier limits to general working, it’s good to have billing alerts set up that means you’ll get an email when your bill approaches a certain amount. Setting up billing alerts uses  CloudWatch .  The Billing metric data is stored in the US East (N. Virginia) region and represents worldwide charges What is actually done in this? The alarm triggers when your account billing exceeds the threshold specified by you. i.e. it triggers only when actual billing exceeds the threshold. If you create a billing alarm at a time when your charges have already ex
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AWS CloudWatch: Introduction

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By Jayant Sharma Introduction Amazon CloudWatch is a component of Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) that provides monitoring for AWS resources and the customer applications running on the  AWS instances . It enables real time monitoring of AWS resources like AWS EBS, AWS EC2 Instances, AWS RDS etc. It also provides matrices for CPU utilization, latency, and other useful parameters. It is used  in order to make sure that all the resources as well the applications are working under the threshold limit. Once the defined threshold limit changes CloudWatch alarms sends the notification or automatically makes the changes to the resources as the rules defined by you.  Users can access CloudWatch functions through an  API , command-line tools  or the AWS Management Console. The CloudWatch interface provides current statistics that can be viewed in graph format. Amazon CloudWatch Features The cloudwatch provides some useful features as follows: Collect Monitor Act  Analyze
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Amazon RDS

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By Jayant Sharma Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.  Administration processes like patching the database software, backing up databases and enabling  recovery  are managed automatically. Amazon RDS was first released on 22 October 2009 and MySQL is only supported.  Then support for  Oracle Database  in June 2011,  Microsoft SQL Server  in May 2012,   PostgreSQL  in November 2013,  and  MariaDB  (a fork of MySQL) in October 2015,   and an additional 80 features during 2017.  In November 2014, AWS announced  Amazon Aurora , a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced  high availability  and performance,   and in October 2017 a PostgreSQL-compatible database offering   was launched. So now AWS RDS has a broad variety of da
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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By Jayant Sharma AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources. You use IAM to control who is authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permissions) to use resources. When you first create an AWS account, you begin with a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account. This identity is called the AWS account  root user  and is accessed by signing in with the email address and password that you used to create the account. It is strongly recommend by Amazon that you do not use the root user for your everyday tasks, even the administrative ones. Instead,  create your first IAM user . The root user credentials can be used only to perform only a few account and service management tasks. IAM helps keep track of  two-factor authentication  information and authorizations .  For example, a business owner can create “users” for as many employees as he/she has,
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Creating AWS S3 Bucket

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Creating AWS S3 Bucket By Jayant Sharma So far we have discussed what is AWS S3 and what is the concept of Bucket in S3. If you haven,t read it, go to that link here . Now we are creating a bucket. You create an Amazon S3 bucket where you will store your objects. Steps are as follows: Step 1: Sign in to AWS Management Console. Step 2: Under Services, select S3 service. Step 3: Click on Create Bucket button. Step 4: Provide a unique bucket name. Note that the name doesn't contain upper case letters. Then select your service region, and then click next. Step 5: Now this is an important step as it contains some important concepts to be remembered. Right now, click next as we can configure this later. Step 6: Permissions can be configured later. Click on next. This is a review page so that you can edit any step again. Click next. Here are your buckets you have created. As you can see, on clicking the bucket, a
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Amazon Simple Storage Service(S3)

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By Jayant Sharma Introduction Amazon Simple Storage Service is storage for the Internet.  Amazon S3 has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It is  designed for online  backup  and  archiving  of data and  applications  using AWS. Working of AWS S3 A mazon S3 is an   object storage   service, which differs from block storage. Each object is stored as a file with its metadata included and is given an ID number . Applications use this ID number to access an object. Unlike file and block cloud storage, a developer can access an object via API's like Rest API The S3 service gives a subscriber, access to the same systems that Amazon uses to run its own websites. S3 enables customers to upload, store and download practically any file or object that is up to 5 TB in size, with the largest single upload capped at 5 GB.  Amazon S3 storage classes Amazon S3 comes in t
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