AWS provides Secrets Manager that allows storing and retrieving secrets, credentials, and versioning. In this article, we discuss how to retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager by version using AWS CLI. AWS Secrets Manager As mentioned earlier, AWS Secrets Manager is a powerful tool to store secrets and credentials. One of its strong points is […]
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Getting started with AWS Secret Manager
AWS Secret Manager is a service to keep secrets in AWS safely and access them as needed. Think about it as 1Password. AWS Secret Manager can be seen as the Vault by HashiCorp alternative. While Vault is open source and can be used free of charge, except setting up and maintenance cost, AWS Secret Manager […]
AWS Lambda is built on top of Serverless technology which allows running your code without having to worry about any server maintenance and deployment. That is a very cool concept to build stateless applications. And REST API is essentially stateless which makes it a perfect candidate for Serverless. In this tutorial, I cover how to […]
My notes on AWS essentials course
Recently I took a 6 hours AWS essentials course provided freely by Linux Academy on Udemy. Even though that I had some experiences with AWS, I decided to take note of some important concepts for my future references and then decided to publish it here so anyone can benefit from. All the notes are written […]
Amazon Web Services fundamental concepts for absolute beginners (Q&A approach) – Since the importance of Cloud Computing, in particular Amazon AWS, raising on daily basis, I decided to create a Q&A post to explain some of the most fundamental concepts of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for those who have no prior experience by any means. […]
Redshift is one of the Amazon AWS services suitable for Big data, BI, and analytical purposes. Though, sometimes it is difficult to get used to it due to its limitations compared to other databases like PostgreSQL. Nonetheless, Redshift provides tremendous benefits for large datasets. In this post, we demonstrate how to increase insert performance of […]