Intro Welcome! In this post, we will embark on a journey to open up a digital coliseum, where digital gladiators (bots, crawlers and bad actors) vie for supremacy in the art of cyber warfare. Join me as we uncover the thrilling encounters and unexpec...
Overview In this blog post, we'll look at how to set up Splunk monitoring for Windows logs in AWS provisioned by Terraform. Monitoring logs is critical for ensuring your infrastructure's security and health, and Splunk offers extensive logging analys...
What is Terraform? HashiCorp Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. You can then use a consistent workflow to pr...
Welcome! In today's example, we will utilize some AWS CLI commands to provision a VPC and related networking components. The AWS CLI allows you to provision and manage cloud infrastructure all from the command line, this can help streamline your cl...
Welcome! In this tutorial, we will configure settings in Cloud9 and then the AWS CLI to deploy a basic REST API via Chalice. What is Chalice? AWS Chalice is a framework for writing serverless applications in Python that provides familiar, declarativ...
Welcome back to the final installment of this series! Today we will be launching our servers, configuring CloudWatch & adding resilience to our instances. Part 1: Manually Configure a VPC Part 2: Secure the Network Environment Part 3: Launching Se...
Welcome back! In Part 2 of this series, we will be securing our network environment by creating Network Access Control Lists (NACL) & Security Groups. Let's get started! Making Public Subnet 1...Public By default, nondefault subnets have the IPv4 pu...
Welcome to the first part of an ongoing mini-series which will result in the creation of network infrastructure for a multi-tier application: We will manually configure a custom VPC, secure the network environment and add logging & auto remediation. ...
We'll be migrating a locally hosted MySQL database to Amazon RDS. Effectively upgrading the monolithic architecture to a multi-tiered architecture. Scenario: Evolve the architecture of a Ghost or WordPress blog with a local MySQL database running on...
